After doing some research I found out that Megan was misrepresented rather substantially by the producers of Doomsday Preppers. She's definitely a normal girl who preps on the side like you or I, but the editors took liberties with some of the more extreme things she said in passing. Instead of derailing this write-up I'm going to save every argument for the section it's covered in.
1. Oil crisis
Based on the interview with Megan after the show, an oil crisis was one of the many scenarios she was getting ready for, with the others considered too boring for television. While the idea of a thorough embargo is fairly far fetched, there is surely lots of reason behind being worried regarding oil.
Regardless of whether OPEC countries prefer us to have it or not, the provision of oil in the earth is finite. Peak oil was a theory released by one of the leading geologists of the 20th century, M. King Hubbert. His work with mathematical models is still used nowadays to forecast the oil production of a certain geographical region. Hubbert himself could forecast the peak of US oil manufacturing (in the mid 1970s) as earlier as 1956.
The theory of peak oil extrapolates this sort of evaluation to the earth as a whole. Numbers differ on once the peak will be attained (if it has not already) however regardless of when it happens we are in trouble due to simple economics. With rising demand for oil and decreasing supply, access to oil becomes a lot more difficult. This includes all aspects of international business, transport and manufacture of plastic items and may cause the havoc National Geographic was aiming to show as absurd.
2. Insane people and urban prepping
Megan brings up a great point when she speaks about how society will collapse after supplies run out, that will generally be in 3 days. This has been noticed before relatively near to home with the state of New Orleans after hurricane Katrina - decent people and Americans turning to looting and damage in distressed instances. How good you feel your neighbors are goes out the window when their little ones are hungry.
Even when she had the room to stockpile supplies, she doesn't have ways to defend herself in a city with thousands and thousands of hungry people. It is the truth for a lot of of us who live in cities (like me). It might be advisable to focus on bugging out compared to pantry prepping in the traditional sense.
3. Physical preparation
According to her bug out oriented survival plan, Megan is sensibly going through physical preparation. I really like that she does body weight and calisthenics based training rather than working out in a gym. Mobility is the title of the game and nothing will build up that faster compared to moving her own body.
Another significant practice (especially for her) will be rucking. For those who are not familiar with this is actually marching with a jam-packed back pack, quite common in the military services. Meg was having problems with vigor when she tested her bug out however this might have helped her out.
6. Fresh fish and vitamins
Megan has an eye out for natural vitamins when she opts for consuming fresh fish instead of cooking it. There is an entire nutritional trend around this referred to as raw foodism which is dependent on the health advantages of eating this way. But, in a real survival situation I think the danger exceed the benefits. The loss of vitamins due to cooking is partial, however getting a food borne ailment, particularly while bugging out, can be potentially life threatening.
7. Shooting full beer cans
If there's one thing that made me turn my head over anything else in this show, it was the shot of Megan shooting full beer cans. I have noticed a few insane things in my day but watching a Texan waste beer like that is just too much to bear.
8. Ounces not pounds
My favorite quotation of the series up to now has to be Megan talking about ounces and not pounds regarding bugging out. With a strategy such as this, urban preppers have to take attention on reducing the amount of products they have. While homesteaders and pantry preppers are focused on volume, urban and bug out preppers have to concentrate on economy in packing. As we can see with Megan's level of energy during her dry run, despite extensive conditioning there is a severe problem in bugging out. You'd better imagine that every ounce counts when you are intending to get from dodge.
1. Oil crisis
Based on the interview with Megan after the show, an oil crisis was one of the many scenarios she was getting ready for, with the others considered too boring for television. While the idea of a thorough embargo is fairly far fetched, there is surely lots of reason behind being worried regarding oil.
Regardless of whether OPEC countries prefer us to have it or not, the provision of oil in the earth is finite. Peak oil was a theory released by one of the leading geologists of the 20th century, M. King Hubbert. His work with mathematical models is still used nowadays to forecast the oil production of a certain geographical region. Hubbert himself could forecast the peak of US oil manufacturing (in the mid 1970s) as earlier as 1956.
The theory of peak oil extrapolates this sort of evaluation to the earth as a whole. Numbers differ on once the peak will be attained (if it has not already) however regardless of when it happens we are in trouble due to simple economics. With rising demand for oil and decreasing supply, access to oil becomes a lot more difficult. This includes all aspects of international business, transport and manufacture of plastic items and may cause the havoc National Geographic was aiming to show as absurd.
2. Insane people and urban prepping
Megan brings up a great point when she speaks about how society will collapse after supplies run out, that will generally be in 3 days. This has been noticed before relatively near to home with the state of New Orleans after hurricane Katrina - decent people and Americans turning to looting and damage in distressed instances. How good you feel your neighbors are goes out the window when their little ones are hungry.
Even when she had the room to stockpile supplies, she doesn't have ways to defend herself in a city with thousands and thousands of hungry people. It is the truth for a lot of of us who live in cities (like me). It might be advisable to focus on bugging out compared to pantry prepping in the traditional sense.
3. Physical preparation
According to her bug out oriented survival plan, Megan is sensibly going through physical preparation. I really like that she does body weight and calisthenics based training rather than working out in a gym. Mobility is the title of the game and nothing will build up that faster compared to moving her own body.
Another significant practice (especially for her) will be rucking. For those who are not familiar with this is actually marching with a jam-packed back pack, quite common in the military services. Meg was having problems with vigor when she tested her bug out however this might have helped her out.
6. Fresh fish and vitamins
Megan has an eye out for natural vitamins when she opts for consuming fresh fish instead of cooking it. There is an entire nutritional trend around this referred to as raw foodism which is dependent on the health advantages of eating this way. But, in a real survival situation I think the danger exceed the benefits. The loss of vitamins due to cooking is partial, however getting a food borne ailment, particularly while bugging out, can be potentially life threatening.
7. Shooting full beer cans
If there's one thing that made me turn my head over anything else in this show, it was the shot of Megan shooting full beer cans. I have noticed a few insane things in my day but watching a Texan waste beer like that is just too much to bear.
8. Ounces not pounds
My favorite quotation of the series up to now has to be Megan talking about ounces and not pounds regarding bugging out. With a strategy such as this, urban preppers have to take attention on reducing the amount of products they have. While homesteaders and pantry preppers are focused on volume, urban and bug out preppers have to concentrate on economy in packing. As we can see with Megan's level of energy during her dry run, despite extensive conditioning there is a severe problem in bugging out. You'd better imagine that every ounce counts when you are intending to get from dodge.
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