{"id":52358,"date":"2020-04-10T07:24:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T12:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52358"},"modified":"2020-04-10T07:24:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T12:24:07","slug":"collapse-where-can-we-find-a-safe-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52358","title":{"rendered":"Collapse: Where can we find a safe refuge?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Collapse: Where can we find a safe refuge?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Does it make sense to have a well-stocked bunker in the mountains to escape collapse?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sometimes, you feel that the world looks like a horror story, something like Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth..” Image from F.R: Jameson<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being the collapsnik I am, a few years ago I had the idea that I could buy myself some kind of safe haven in the mountains, a place where I and my family could find refuge if (and when) the dreaded collapse were to strike our civilization (as they say, when the Nutella hits the fan). It is a typical idea of collapse-oriented people: run away from cities, imagined being the most vulnerable places in a Mad Max-style scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe I was thinking also of Boccaccio’s Decameron<\/em>, when he describes how in the mid-14th century a group of wealthy Florentines finds refuge from the plague in a villa<\/em>, outside Florence. And they had a leisured time telling stories to each other. I don’t oven a villa in the countryside, but I took a tour of villages in the Appennini <\/em>mountains, a few hundred km from Florence, to seek for a hamlet of some kind to buy. I was accompanied by a friend of mine who is a denizen of the area and whom I had infected with the collapse meme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We found several houses and apartments for sale in the area. One struck me as suitable, and the price was also interesting. It was a two-floor apartment with the windows opening on the central square of the village where it was located, among wooden hills. It had a wood stove, the kind of heating system you can always manage in an emergency. And it was at a sufficient height you could be reasonably safe from heat waves, even without air conditioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Collapse: Where can we find a safe refuge? Does it make sense to have a well-stocked bunker in the mountains to escape collapse? Sometimes, you feel that the world looks like a horror story, something like Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth..” Image from F.R: Jameson.  Being the collapsnik I am, a few years ago I had […]<\/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":[10777,29363,2692],"class_list":["post-52358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-cassandras-legacy","tag-refuge","tag-ugo-bardi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52358","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=52358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52359,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52358\/revisions\/52359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}