Peak Oil Survival: Preparation for Life After Gridcrash
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 613.69 EAN: 9781592281275 ISBN: 1592281273 Label: The Lyons Press Manufacturer: The Lyons Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: 2006-10-01 Publisher: The Lyons Press Studio: The Lyons Press
How to survive after the oil runs out and there is no more "grid"
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Customer Rating: Summary: Great book, just not exactly what I was looking for Comment: I received this book last week and finished it last night. It is an invaluable resource for finding water, purifying it for drinking, and more. However, I was hoping for more information on how to prepare for this event and more importantly from my perspective...how to prepare to stay warm in the winter. I think another reader had a very good point in that it doesn't seem that this book really covers the topic of how to find food in an emergency adequately. I was most appreciative of how the author laid out the beginning of the book and how through the water sections were. Customer Rating: Summary: Do Not Waste Your money! Comment: Usually the reviews help me decide if the book is of any value. Not this time. I know there are more helpful books out there to help in this coming economic collapse. Customer Rating: Summary: it's construction-oriented Comment: It's not about cultural change or foraging, it's about building stuff to be more independent. Customer Rating: Summary: An extreme disappointment Comment: If you have never read anything about peak oil or survival perhaps this book will get you thinking. If you have any knowledge of these topics you will find this book very high level and not informative. If Mr. McBay has an understanding of survival, or in a more relevant vein self-reliance, it does not make it to these pages.
Two quick examples: The book is a very light at under 100 pages and he spends 33 of those pages talking about cooling and cooking food. In his post crash world there is a big issue with cooling or cooking food but apparently after grid crash there is no problem actually getting the food. If there is, he does not address the issue. Personally I have become accustomed to eating.
Second, he spends less than 2 pages addressing heat (in the winter). If you live in the North one would hope Mr. McBay would address the topic as a lack of fuel would definitely have an effect. His suggestions are pitiful. Light a fire (great if you live on the third floor of an apartment with no fireplace) and put on more clothes. Brilliant! I need someone to remind me to get dressed. How about a simple suggestion to prepare yourself by getting a high quality sleeping bag that can keep you alive when the temperature goes sub zero. No such common sense suggestions are to be found.
If you want a book on survival then buy one on that specific topic. May I suggest "SAS Survival Handbook". If you want a book on Self-Reliance then buy one on that specific topic. I would suggest starting with "Storey's Basic Country Skills" or "The Self-sufficient Life and How to live It" or "The Big Book of Self-Reliant Living". All these books are tomes of knowledge that may actually help you if hard times come to pass.
Customer Rating: Summary: All The Comforts of Home Comment: This is a concise, little book of basic techniques and mechanics for individually recreating many of the suburban comforts we have come to depend on, i.e. lights, potable water, heat, food, contact with the outside world, etc. It is pretty basic stuff for anyone who has developed skills in these areas already. However, if you are a relatively clueless urban or suburbanite who can't do without the necessities of the 21st century, American lifestyle and don't know how to produce them, you definitely need this book.
