Prepping

Since early 2024, there has been a quiet little government webpage: prepare.campaign.gov.uk. The goal: to encourage Brits to prepare for the worst. But this page never got much publicity. I didn’t really hear people talking about it, at least. But this month, the page relaunched as beready.campaign.gov.uk, and politicians and the media have started banging on about the need to be prepared. We are to be a nation of preppers. What are we supposed to prepare for? Essentially, the effects of climate disasters, cyberattacks, and war. We are supposed to have three days worth of food and water that we could consume without access to power. Three days worth of water for a family is actually quite a lot of water. The government recommends three litres a day per person. For a family of four, that’s 36 litres of water to keep in stock! And that’s with the rather optimistic assumption that water would become available again after three days, whatever the emergency is. This highlights an obvious…