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A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times
A common sense field guide to understanding, surviving, and thriving in our time of complex chaos and crises. Is this finally it? The end times?Because from COVID-19 to climate catastrophe to the looming AI revolution—not to mention the ever-growing background hum of rage, fear, and anxiety—it’s starting to feel like the party we call civilization is just about over. The good news? It’s always felt that way.
Drawing on evolutionary psychology, history, brain science, game theory, and more, cooperation theorist (and, coincidentally, zombie expert) Athena Aktipis reassuringly explains how we, as a species, are hardwired to survive big existential crises. And how we can do so again by leveraging our innate abilities to communicate and cooperate.
Pack a ukulele in your prep kit. Practice your risk-management skills. Enlist your crew into a survival team. And embrace the apocalypse. You might just enjoy it. Plus, it will help us build a better and more resilient future for all humankind.
Drawing on evolutionary psychology, history, brain science, game theory, and more, cooperation theorist (and, coincidentally, zombie expert) Athena Aktipis reassuringly explains how we, as a species, are hardwired to survive big existential crises. And how we can do so again by leveraging our innate abilities to communicate and cooperate.
Pack a ukulele in your prep kit. Practice your risk-management skills. Enlist your crew into a survival team. And embrace the apocalypse. You might just enjoy it. Plus, it will help us build a better and more resilient future for all humankind.
247 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 9, 2024
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May 1, 2025
Fairly interesting book with a light take on beginning to be a casual prepper, so that you are more mentally and physically ready to be self reliant or even self save.
Some light discussion of social community building. A bit of philosophy relating to social risk management, building support networks, etc.
Some light discussion of social community building. A bit of philosophy relating to social risk management, building support networks, etc.
December 12, 2024
Fun, thought-provoking, only mildly anxiety inducing. I'm gonna up my prepping game!
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