Survivalists get ready for meltdown

LONDON , England (CNN) — Derek is compiling a survival guide on how to cope after the total collapse of society. It is, as you can imagine, a big job.

Already he has 58.8 gigabytes of material stored on his computer, he tells me impressively.


… Derek, 60, who moved from London to the countryside in the southeast of England four years ago, puts it another way.

“There’s going to be absolute pandemonium when it does happen, so I just want to be prepared so that I’m not a burden on anyone,” he says.

What this disaster might be is anyone’s guess, says Derek, but he’s got his hunches.

Climate change is high up on the list. Also up there is the fallout from a global economic collapse, possibly resulting from a state of peak oil — the point where oil production reaches its peak and thereafter goes into freefall.

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