Three Meals
Since watching the remake of Survivors, the original of which was written by Terry Nation, (Dalek Creator) in the 1970's, it has very much peaked my interest on the subject of survival in the outdoors and current dependence on technology and fossil fuels.
When you start to think of just the simple everyday things, cooking food, heating water, staying warm, washing yourself and clothes and where you can get food and water from, it is almost impossible to get anything without relying on electricity, gas and your local supermarket.
The idea behind Survivors, or the remake, not having seen the original yet, is that 90% of the human population is killed off by a variant strain of the flu. After a few days, a week at most, the few survivors are faced with living without conventional society to back them up, no power grid, no law enforcement, no emergency services and no government.
I was disappointed that the show ended up being more about political conspiracy theories, mysterious science labs and most of the survivors being very irritating and not very practical.
I wanted something that would look at how exactly you would get by in that situation. Having to find somewhere to live, finding food, building a community of some kind and making rules. Now though its something I keep thinking about, and thinking about what practical skills I actually have and what would be most useful to learn. I've started watching more garden and cooking programmes.
Maybe it's a reflection on my morbid interests, but I find the whole Survivors idea fascinating and quite enjoyable to reflect on. Not to mistake though, that if something like the collapse of the general infrastructure and power grid would be fun, and you'd better hope you're either out in the country or most of the population does go with it, otherwise things will be rather violent and bloody very quickly.
It's said that civilasation is three meals away from chaos. Think about what you rely on for general conveniences and what you could do without them and that sounds pretty accurate to me.
When you start to think of just the simple everyday things, cooking food, heating water, staying warm, washing yourself and clothes and where you can get food and water from, it is almost impossible to get anything without relying on electricity, gas and your local supermarket.
The idea behind Survivors, or the remake, not having seen the original yet, is that 90% of the human population is killed off by a variant strain of the flu. After a few days, a week at most, the few survivors are faced with living without conventional society to back them up, no power grid, no law enforcement, no emergency services and no government.
I was disappointed that the show ended up being more about political conspiracy theories, mysterious science labs and most of the survivors being very irritating and not very practical.
I wanted something that would look at how exactly you would get by in that situation. Having to find somewhere to live, finding food, building a community of some kind and making rules. Now though its something I keep thinking about, and thinking about what practical skills I actually have and what would be most useful to learn. I've started watching more garden and cooking programmes.
Maybe it's a reflection on my morbid interests, but I find the whole Survivors idea fascinating and quite enjoyable to reflect on. Not to mistake though, that if something like the collapse of the general infrastructure and power grid would be fun, and you'd better hope you're either out in the country or most of the population does go with it, otherwise things will be rather violent and bloody very quickly.
It's said that civilasation is three meals away from chaos. Think about what you rely on for general conveniences and what you could do without them and that sounds pretty accurate to me.