{"id":23656,"date":"2017-04-17T19:46:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T00:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23656"},"modified":"2017-04-17T19:46:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T00:46:14","slug":"whats-your-plan-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23656","title":{"rendered":"What’s Your Plan B?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s Your Plan B?<\/a><\/h3>\n

Although Plan B includes a wide spectrum of options, these three basic categories define three different purposes for having an alternative residence lined up.<\/i><\/p>\n

We all have a Plan A–continue living just like we\u2019re living now.<\/b><\/p>\n

Some of us have a Plan B in case Plan A doesn\u2019t work out, and the reasons for a Plan B break out into three general categories:<\/p>\n

1. Preppers who foresee the potential for a breakdown in Plan A due to a systemic \u201cperfect storm\u201d of events that could overwhelm the status quo\u2019s ability to supply healthcare, food and transportation fuels for the nation\u2019s heavily urbanized populace.<\/p>\n

2. People who understand their employment is precarious and contingent, and they might have to move to another locale if they lose their job and can\u2019t find another equivalent one quickly.<\/p>\n

3. Those who tire of the stresses of maintaining Plan A and who long for a less stressful, less complex, cheaper and more fulfilling way of living.<\/p>\n

The Fragility and Vulnerability of Highly Optimized Supply Chains<\/b><\/p>\n

Many people are unaware of the fragility of the supply chains that truck in food, fuel and all the other commodities of industrialized comfort to cities. As a general rule, there are only a few days of food and fuel in a typical city, and any disruption quickly empties existing stocks. (Those interested in learning more might start with the book When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Most residents may not realize that the government\u2019s emergency services are actually quite limited, and that a relatively small number of casualties\/injured people (for example, a few thousand) in an urban area would overwhelm services designed to handle a relative handful of the millions of residents.<\/p>\n

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What’s Your Plan B? Although Plan B includes a wide spectrum of options, these three basic categories define three different purposes for having an alternative residence lined up. We all have a Plan A–continue living just like we\u2019re living now. Some of us have a Plan B in case Plan A doesn\u2019t work out, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[127,151,319,339,4924,15150,4267,3237],"class_list":["post-23656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-charles-hugh-smith","tag-commodities","tag-food","tag-fuel","tag-oftwominds","tag-plan-a","tag-plan-b","tag-supply-chains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23657,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23656\/revisions\/23657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}