Prepping: Hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst

How long would you survive if there was a long-term power outage? If the water disappeared and our gas cards or debit cards stopped working? There is a group of people who practice being prepared for just that: the preppers.

While the authorities are urging citizens to fend for themselves for at least 72 hours, many of us are left helpless when the electricity goes out or the water runs out.

A prepper has stockpiled fresh water and canned goods. The really serious ones leave the city and move out into the country to a house with its own well and greater opportunities to get through civilizational breakdowns.

In the book, we meet a number of Swedish preppers who share how they go about being prepared for all types of disasters. There's the woman who works at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the single mother who prepares with the children, the pensioner who is becoming increasingly self-sufficient in her farming, and the couple who have stored 400 liters of water in their apartment.

But the book is also a practical handbook with a lot of valuable tips on how to survive, stay warm, store water or cope mentally in a crisis.

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