Ready for Life

An article has been published over at Newsweek, Rise of the Preppers,  talking about the term “prepper” as in someone who is more prepared. This includes the person with an urban garden all the way to the hard-core disaster preparedness guy who fears a breakdown of society. The article borderlines on highlighting the crazy survivalist, but also highlights a statistic I found surprising. In New York, polling has shown that residents are thinking about preparedness. In fact, nearly 50% of people are thinking about it up from just 18% in 2004.

I don’t expect Prepping to go as mainstream as preppy, but if you see someone with a popped collar working in their garden, you might want to worry. The world might actually be ending.