There's never been a better time to be prepared. When Technology Fails:A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency is author Matthew Stein's
comprehensive primer on sustainable living skills including food, water,
shelter, energy, first-aid, and crisis-management skills prepares
you to embark on the path toward sustainability. But unlike any other
book, Stein not only shows you how to be prepared in seemingly stable
times, but also how to live in the face of potential disasters, lasting days or
years, coming in the form of social upheaval, economic meltdown, environmental catastrophe, and man-made or natural disasters.
When Technology Fails covers the gamut. You'll learn how to
start a fire and keep warm if you've been left temporarily homeless, as
well as the basics of installing a renewable energy system for your home
or business. You'll learn how to find and sterilize water in the face
of utility failure, as well as practical information for dealing with
water-quality issues even when the public tap water is still flowing. Also, learn alternative techniques for healing equally suited to an era
of profit-driven malpractice as to situations of social calamity. Each
chapter (a survey of the risks to the status quo; supplies and
preparation for short- and long-term emergencies; emergency measures for
survival; water; food; shelter; clothing; first aid, low-tech medicine,
and healing; energy, heat, and power; metalworking; utensils and
storage; low-tech chemistry; and engineering, machines, and materials)
offers the same approach, describing skills for self-reliance in good
times and bad.
Fully revised and expanded, the first edition was written pre-9/11 and
pre-Katrina when few Americans took the risk of social disruption
seriously. When Technology Fails ends on a positive, proactive
note with a new chapter on "Making the Shift to Sustainability," which
offers practical suggestions for changing our world on personal,
community, and global levels. No home is complete without this essential resource. This easy-to-use manual is designed for self-reliant
living in today's changing world. |