Many greetings to You all!
Please excuse my not very good english.
I was born in Western Germany 1964 and grew up all my childhood under the Cold War and feared always the eradication of my homeland by an atomic Third World War.
So i was as child always very interested in questions how to stop or survive catastrophs.
When i came to choose my profession 1983, i decide to learn agriculture, because it seems me to be the most important profession at all.
But i didnt work in this profession, because it was too expensiv for me to buy and build up an economic sucsessfull farm.
With my mother i managed a little private pension on a lonely water-mill in the forest Hunsrueck not far from the US-military airport Hahn and one of the biggest bomb- and munition-depots in Germany.
After end of Cold War, these places was returned to civilian economic units.
The munition-depot is new structured as a center for renewable energy.
As one member in a little local NGO for the transition to sustainable local economy, we had given some important impulses to this.
After selling the mill, i´m now working as industrial night-security and besides, as milk-probe-collector on some dairy-farms.
So i´m reading very much, and i´m engaged in three survival+preparing+selfsufficient-gardening online-communitys,
where these topics are discussed on a high level and where i found the link to Your book.
Many thanks to Lewis for Your important input to this Topic.
Now i have to dig out my old school-english in the hope to be able to follow the debate.