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行在主路上 楊景釗弟兄感恩見証分享(二)

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「我們一生的年日是七十歲,若是強壯可到八十,但其中所矜誇的,不過是勞苦愁煩,轉眼成空,我們便如飛而去。」(詩篇九十:十)	
	有了創造主,關於人生的問題不再向『人』尋問,而是改向『上帝』!首先,人在上帝眼中處於什麼位置呢?根據《聖經—創世記》,上帝用了五天時間以言語創造了萬物,包括一切的活物。然後,上帝用了一天,按祂自己的形象,以地上的泥土用祂的手,造了人的模式,並在他的鼻孔吹入一口氣,有靈的活人便是如此造出來。這個人具備了上帝賜與的智慧與能力,所以人能管理整個世界。
	世界樣龐大,自然需要大量不同的人,才能完成整個管理工作。事實上,所有人都是平等。
	那麼人為什麼活著呢?可以分為兩大類理由:	
	●人當盡人在世上的責任,每一個人生存在世上一定負有不同的工作;此外,在人生的歷程中亦不斷承擔不同的身份。 	
	● 作為神的兒女,在神的國度裡亦當盡人子的責任。那麼人如何方能達到上帝的要求呢?每一個人的能力與意願上帝都好清楚,所以祂的要求很簡單:就是敬畏神,謹守祂的誡命,這是人所當盡的本分。


盡本分 	
	「生老病死」是人的必然,無可逃避。研究『死』的人不少,追尋死後何處去的人更多。雖然我曾經看過這一類專書,或者他們的見解太深奧,超越了我有限的思維。
	上文曾提到我有閱讀有關人體結構的參考書,記得其中有一篇是談到血液裡的血小板,我節錄了一些資料:當一個人受傷開始流血時,血小板會聚集起來「塞住」破洞,然後「自體瓦解」釋出化學物質啟動凝血作用。很明顯血小板一定有個訊息接收器,所以當人體某地方破損時,而人體總中樞發出指令之後,血小板便去「塞住」那破洞。與此同時又會釋出化學物質去凝固血液,所以血不會不停地再流。另一問題,就是血小板的壽命平均是五至十一天,隨時由骨髓補充。
	當日,看完了該書《人,美妙的傑作》關於血小板的介紹,我不得不停下來想一個問題:「當我受傷時,我有向血小板下達任何指令嗎?」當然很清楚我沒有這樣做,因為還只是那一刻我才認識血小板多一點點而已。	
魂 	
	究竟除了我之外,誰下指令呢?而我更加相信我那異常複雜的身體,可能每天都有些變化,而管控血小板那個總中樞,一定同樣地肩負著發出指令的任務,讓身體作出正常運作。我發現了原來除我以外,還有另外一個我,而這個『另外的一個我』比諸『我』更加瞭解『我』。 	
	在神學書裡面,神學家指人是有「靈魂」的,其中「靈」是與造物主連系,而「魂」是管控人體的運作。靈魂之說,我自認識血小板之後便深信不移。原來,人的肉體必然會毀滅,但靈魂不屬肉體,所以依然存在。 	
天國居所 	
	人死後何去呢?耶穌在經上說:「在我父的家裡,有許多住處。若是沒有,我就早已告訴你們了。我去原是為你們預備地方去。」(約翰福音十四:二)	
有歷練人生的人,相信對下列描繪會有強烈感受:	
	●人生有如白駒過隙,轉迅即逝。 	
	● 經上說:「我們一生的年日是七十歲,若是強壯可到八十,但其中所矜誇的,不過是勞苦愁煩,轉眼成空,我們便如飛而去。」(詩篇九十:十)環顧世界各地,不是戰爭,便是隨時一觸即發的戰爭,又或是政治的鬥爭,凡此種種,用『勞苦愁煩』來形容,可謂非常貼切,而人的生命轉瞬即逝,亦確實如此!如此日子確是帶來異常灰暗的人生。
	不過,相信你曾經到過各地旅遊,無論你所去何處,住什麼酒店,你祗是一個旅居他地的旅客,最後還是要回到你的老家。原來,我們今天所在的世界,只是旅居之地。聖經常常提醒我們,我們不過是一個『過客』。你的老家就是上文耶穌為你預備的地方。
	『信』,是人渴望擁有,但不容易得到的東西,聖經對『信』是這樣說:信就是「對所盼望的事的把握,是還沒有看見的事的明證。」(希伯來書十一:一)	
 	朋友:當你相信上帝是創造人和萬物的創造主時,那麼你便應相信上帝所給予我們的一切。 	(全文完)
神與我同在	
     陳翠華姊妹感恩見証分享	
你要以你的訓言引導我,以後必接我到榮耀裡。除你以外,在天上我有誰呢?除你以外,在地上我也沒有所愛慕的。我的肉體和我的心腸衰殘,但神是我心裡的力量,又是我的福分,直到永遠。(詩篇七十三:二十四至二十六)	
	
	二○二○年十月十八日星期日,吃過午飯後,我的先生如常一樣出去散步,然後午睡,起床後吃了酸牛奶,一切很正常。下午三點半左右,先生突然覺得有點冷,於是就穿上毛衣,但還是覺得很冷,就再穿上一件薄羽絨服。	
	過了一會兒,他開始全身發抖。我深知大事不妙,一定是發高熱了。果然一探熱是華氏三十七度六,於是馬上吃「TYLENOL」退燒藥,並上床休息。但蓋了被子還一直發抖。到了晚上七點多,再探熱是華氏三十八度六,怎麼辦好呢?星期天家庭醫生不開診,去醫院覺得不安全(因為前段時間公寓裡有老人去醫院後,反而感染了新冠病毒而去世)。怎麼辦呢?	
	記起聖經中上帝的話語:「你不要害怕,因為我與你同在;不要驚惶,因為我是你的上帝。我必堅固你,我必幫助你;我必用我公義的右手扶持你。」(以賽亞書四十一:十)神的話給了我力量,改變了我過去對疫病害怕、惶恐的心理,就馬上打電話通知孫女,她和男朋友立刻去藥房買了一種效力較強些的退燒藥送來。先生吃了一次強力退燒藥後,在午夜時,高熱開始退了一些,再吃了一次「TYLENOL」退燒藥後,天亮時就退熱了。	
	第二天起床後,發現先生的尿液顏色很深而量又少,我猜想可能是他的泌尿系統有問題。早上九點後,便打電話到家庭醫生診所,醫生聽到先生發過高熱,不論退熱已否,一定要去做病毒檢測。
	於是女兒和孫女很快就找到了一個檢測點,我們便飛車前去。來到檢測點,只見到工作人員,沒有見到一個要檢測的人,我們覺得很安全,害怕感染到病毒的恐懼,頓時消失了,很快就做完了檢測。回到家後,我便立刻聯繫了先生的泌尿科醫生,並約好了星期二上午九點見醫生,一切都很順利。	
	在星期一那一天,雖然沒有見到醫生,由於大量喝水,尿液增多了,顏色也淡了很多。星期二早上,得知病毒檢測的結果是陰性。見過泌尿科醫生,吃了消炎藥,情況好了很多。
	我很高興在這裡分享,因為我真是感受到神的恩典!先生從發高熱到退熱,尿液從少到增多,從尿液從濁到清,檢測到診病,一切都很順利。這就是神的恩賜!一切榮耀歸於神!

	        二○二二年七月九日	
	
	

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  • Comment Link Phillipcloto Thursday, 26 June 2025 18:19 posted by Phillipcloto

    “We’re asking everyone to take it slow, avoid driving through standing water, and use alternate routes when possible,” Rosenlund urged.
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    Rainfall in Grand Island began Wednesday afternoon but the intensity picked up quickly after dark, falling at more than an inch per hour at times.

    A total of 6.41 inches of rain fell by midnight, which made it the rainiest June day and the second rainiest day of any month in the city’s 130-year history of weather records.

    The National Weather Service issued a flash flood emergency — the most severe form of flood warning — at 11:45 p.m. CDT Wednesday for Grand Island that continued for several hours into Thursday morning, continuously warning of “extensive flash flooding.”
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    Multiple rounds of heavy storms tracked over the area late Wednesday into early Thursday morning and ultimately dumped record amounts of rainfall. A level 2-of-4 risk of flooding rainfall was in place for Grand Island at the time, according to the Weather Prediction Center.

    More than a month’s worth of rain – nearly 4.5 inches – fell in only three hours between 10 p.m. CDT Wednesday and 1 a.m. CDT Thursday. Rainfall of this intensity would only be expected around once in 100 years, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data.

    Climate change is making heavy rainfall events heavier. As the world warms due to fossil fuel pollution, a warmer atmosphere is able to soak up more moisture like a sponge, only to wring it out in heavier bursts of rain.

    Hourly rainfall rates have intensified in nearly 90% of large US cities since 1970, a recent study found.

  • Comment Link JohnnyReesk Thursday, 26 June 2025 18:16 posted by JohnnyReesk

    ‘Extraordinary rainstorm’ floods Nebraska city, triggers water rescues
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    An entire June’s worth of rain fell in just a few hours over Grand Island, Nebraska, Wednesday night, triggering life-threatening flash flooding that inundated neighborhoods, stranded motorists and forced water rescues.

    Crews have responded to dozens of calls to assist motorists stuck in flooded roads since torrential rain began Wednesday night, according to Spencer Schubert, the city’s communications manager. The flooding has also displaced an unspecified number of residents from their homes.
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    “At this time we have no injuries to report,” Schubert said early Thursday morning, noting some rescues were ongoing.

    Torrential rain caused sewers to back up into several homes and sent floodwater running into basements, according to a Thursday news release from the city. Some affected residents took shelter at local hotels or with friends and family.

    “This was an extraordinary rainstorm and is very similar to the historic rains seen in the 2005 floods,” Jon Rosenlund, the city’s emergency director said. “We will be actively monitoring rivers, creeks and other drainage areas over the next few days for future flooding issues.”

    Flooding in 2005 turned streets into rivers in Grand Island. At one point, the city tore up a major road to open up a channel to drain flooding away from homes, CNN affiliate KHGI reported.

    The central Nebraskan city is home to around 53,000 people and is about 130 miles southwest of Omaha. The rain came to an end around sunrise Thursday, but the danger remains, with a flood warning in effect until 7 p.m. CDT.

  • Comment Link HarveyIsofE Thursday, 26 June 2025 18:16 posted by HarveyIsofE

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    (environmental) cost of generating a response, people would maybe start thinking, ‘Is it really necessary to turn myself into an action figure just because I’m bored?’ Or ‘do I have to tell ChatGPT jokes because I have nothing to do?’” Dauner said.

    Additionally, as more companies push to add generative AI tools to their systems, people may not have much choice how or when they use the technology, Luccioni said.

    “We don’t need generative AI in web search. Nobody asked for AI chatbots in (messaging apps) or on social media,” Luccioni said. “This race to stuff them into every single existing technology is truly infuriating, since it comes with real consequences to our planet.”
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    With less available information about AI’s resource usage, consumers have less choice, Ren said, adding that regulatory pressures for more transparency are unlikely to the United States anytime soon. Instead, the best hope for more energy-efficient AI may lie in the cost efficacy of using less energy.

    “Overall, I’m still positive about (the future). There are many software engineers working hard to improve resource efficiency,” Ren said. “Other industries consume a lot of energy too, but it’s not a reason to suggest AI’s environmental impact is not a problem. We should definitely pay attention.”

    Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Greener newsletter. Our limited newsletter series guides you on how to minimize your personal role in the climate crisis — and reduce your eco-anxiety.

  • Comment Link AntionePauMp Thursday, 26 June 2025 17:54 posted by AntionePauMp

    “It’s true that both plants are not yet operating at the capacity we originally targeted,” said the Climeworks spokesperson.
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    “Like all transformative innovations, progress is iterative, and some steps may take longer than anticipated,” they said.

    The company’s prospective third plant in Louisiana aims to remove 1 million tons of carbon a year by 2030, but it’s uncertain whether construction will proceed under the Trump administration.

    A Department of Energy spokesperson said a department-wide review was underway “to ensure all activities follow the law, comply with applicable court orders and align with the Trump administration’s priorities.” The government has a mandate “to unleash ‘American Energy Dominance’,” they added.

    Direct air capture’s success will also depend on companies’ willingness to buy carbon credits.
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    Currently companies are pretty free to “use the atmosphere as a waste dump,” said Holly Buck, assistant professor of environment and sustainability at the University at Buffalo. “This lack of regulation means there is not yet a strong business case for cleaning this waste up,” she told CNN.

    Another criticism leveled at Climeworks is its failure to offset its own climate pollution. The carbon produced by its corporate activities, such as office space and travel, outweighs the carbon removed by its plants.

    The company says its plants already remove more carbon than they produce and corporate emissions “will become irrelevant as the size of our plants scales up.”

    Some, however, believe the challenges Climeworks face tell a broader story about direct air capture.

    This should be a “wake-up call,” said Lili Fuhr, director of the fossil economy program at the Center for International Environmental Law. Climeworks’ problems are not “outliers,” she told CNN, “but reflect persistent technical and economic hurdles faced by the direct air capture industry worldwide.”

    “The climate crisis demands real action, not speculative tech that overpromises and underdelivers.” she added.

    Some of the Climeworks’ problems are “related to normal first-of-a-kind scaling challenges with emerging complex engineering projects,” Buck said.

    But the technology has a steep path to becoming cheaper and more efficient, especially with US slashing funding for climate policies, she added. “This kind of policy instability and backtracking on contracts will be terrible for a range of technologies and innovations, not just direct air capture.”

    Direct air capture is definitely feasible but its hard, said MIT’s Buck. Whether it succeeds will depend on a slew of factors including technological improvements and creating markets for carbon removals, he said.

    “At this point in time, no one really knows how large a role direct air capture will play in the future.”

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  • Comment Link HaroldSix Thursday, 26 June 2025 17:45 posted by HaroldSix

    This company says its technology can help save the world. It’s now cutting 20% of its staff as Trump slashes climate funding
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    Two huge plants in Iceland operate like giant vacuum cleaners, sucking in air and stripping out planet-heating carbon pollution. This much-hyped climate technology is called direct air capture, and the company behind these plants, Switzerland-based Climeworks, is perhaps its most high-profile proponent.

    But a year after opening a huge new facility, Climeworks is straining against strong headwinds. The company announced this month it would lay off around 20% of its workforce, blaming economic uncertainties and shifting climate policy priorities.
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    “We’ve always known this journey would be demanding. Today, we find ourselves navigating a challenging time,” Climeworks’ CEOs Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher said in a statement.

    This is particularly true of its US ambitions. A new direct air capture plant planned for Louisiana, which received $50 million in funding from the Biden administration, hangs in the balance as President Donald Trump slashes climate funding.

    Climeworks also faces mounting criticism for operating at only a fraction of its maximum capacity, and for failing to remove more climate pollution than it emits.

    The company says these are teething pains inherent in setting up a new industry from scratch and that it has entered a new phase of global scale up. “The overall trajectory will be positive as we continue to define the technology,” said a Climeworks spokesperson.

    For critics, however, these headwinds are evidence direct air capture is an expensive, shiny distraction from effective climate action.

  • Comment Link MichaelNourn Thursday, 26 June 2025 17:41 posted by MichaelNourn

    The CO2 that is extracted from the water is run through a purification process that uses activated carbon in the form of charred coconut husks, and is then ready to be stored.
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    In a scaled up system, it would be fed into geological CO2 storage. Before the water is released, its acidity is restored to normal levels, making it ready to absorb more carbon dioxide from the air.

    “This discharged water that now has very low carbon concentrations needs to refill it, so it’s just trying to suck CO2 from anywhere, and it sucks it from the atmosphere,” says Halloran. “A simple analogy is that we’re squeezing out a sponge and putting it back.”

    While more tests are needed to understand the full potential of the technology, Halloran admits that it doesn’t “blow direct air capture out the water in terms of the energy costs,” and there are other challenges such as having to remove impurities from the water before releasing it, as well as the potential impact on ecosystems. But, he adds, all carbon capture technologies incur high costs in building plants and infrastructure, and using seawater has one clear advantage: It has a much higher concentration of carbon than air does, “so you should be able to really reduce the capital costs involved in building the plants.”
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    Mitigating impacts
    One major concern with any system that captures carbon from seawater is the impact of the discharged water on marine ecosystems. Guy Hooper, a PhD researcher at the University of Exeter, who’s working on this issue at the SeaCURE site, says that low-carbon seawater is released in such small quantities that it is unlikely to have any effect on the marine environment, because it dilutes extremely quickly.

    However, that doesn’t mean that SeaCURE is automatically safe. “To understand how a scaled-up version of SeaCURE might affect the marine environment, we have been conducting experiments to measure how marine organisms respond to low-carbon seawater,” he adds. “Initial results suggest that some marine organisms, such as plankton and mussels, may be affected when exposed to low-carbon seawater.”

    To mitigate potential impacts, the seawater can be “pre-diluted” before releasing it into the marine environment, but Hooper warns that a SeaCURE system should not be deployed near any sensitive marine habitats.

    There is rising interest in carbon capture from seawater — also known as Direct Ocean Capture or DOC — and several startups are operating in the field. Among them is Captura, a spin off from the California Institute of Technology that is working on a pilot project in Hawaii, and Amsterdam-based Brineworks, which says that its method is more cost-effective than air carbon capture.
    According to Stuart Haszeldine, a professor of Carbon Capture and Storage at the University of Edinburgh, who’s not involved with SeaCURE, although the initiative appears to be more energy efficient than current air capture pilot tests, a full-scale system will require a supply of renewable energy and permanent storage of CO2 by compressing it to become a liquid and then injecting it into porous rocks deep underground.

    He says the next challenge is for SeaCURE to scale up and “to operate for longer to prove it can capture millions of tons of CO2 each year.”

    But he believes there is huge potential in recapturing carbon from ocean water. “Total carbon in seawater is about 50 times that in the atmosphere, and carbon can be resident in seawater for tens of thousands of years, causing acidification which damages the plankton and coral reef ecosystems. Removing carbon from the ocean is a giant task, but essential if the consequences of climate change are to be controlled,” he says.

  • Comment Link AlfredFig Thursday, 26 June 2025 17:38 posted by AlfredFig

    UK project trials carbon capture at sea to help tackle climate change
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    The world is betting heavily on carbon capture — a term that refers to various techniques to stop carbon pollution from being released during industrial processes, or removing existing carbon from the atmosphere, to then lock it up permanently.

    The practice is not free of controversy, with some arguing that carbon capture is expensive, unproven and can serve as a distraction from actually reducing carbon emissions. But it is a fast-growing reality: there are at least 628 carbon capture and storage projects in the pipeline around the world, with a 60% year-on-year increase, according to the latest report from the Global CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) Institute. The market size was just over $3.5 billion in 2024, but is projected to grow to $14.5 billion by 2032, according to Fortune Business Insights.
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    Perhaps the most ambitious — and the most expensive — type of carbon capture involves removing carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the air, although there are just a few such facilities currently in operation worldwide. Some scientists believe that a better option would be to capture carbon from seawater rather than air, because the ocean is the planet’s largest carbon sink, absorbing 25% of all carbon dioxide emissions.

    In the UK, where the government in 2023 announced up to ?20 billion ($26.7 billion) in funding to support carbon capture, one such project has taken shape near the English Channel. Called SeaCURE, it aims to find out if sea carbon capture actually works, and if it can be competitive with its air counterpart.

    “The reason why sea water holds so much carbon is that when you put CO2 into the water, 99% of it becomes other forms of dissolved carbon that don’t exchange with the atmosphere,” says Paul Halloran, a professor of Ocean and Climate Science at the University of Exeter, who leads the SeaCURE team.

    “But it also means it’s very straightforward to take that carbon out of the water.”

    Pilot plant
    SeaCURE started building a pilot plant about a year ago, at the Weymouth Sea Life Centre on the southern coast of England. Operational for the past few months, it is designed to process 3,000 liters of seawater per minute and remove an estimated 100 tons of CO2 per year.

    “We wanted to test the technology in the real environment with real sea water, to identify what problems you hit,” says Halloran, adding that working at a large public aquarium helps because it already has infrastructure to extract seawater and then discharge it back into the ocean.

    The carbon that is naturally dissolved in the seawater can be easily converted to CO2 by slightly increasing the acidity of the water. To make it come out, the water is trickled over a large surface area with air blowing over it. “In that process, we can constrict over 90% of the carbon out of that water,” Halloran says.

  • Comment Link Williamhoild Thursday, 26 June 2025 17:38 posted by Williamhoild

    Many left-wing preppers also have guns.
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    Killjoy is open about the fact she owns firearms but calls it one of the least important aspects of her prepping. She lives in rural Appalachia and, as a transgender woman, says the way she’s treated has changed dramatically since Trump’s first election. For those on the left, guns are “for community and self-defense,” she said.

    Left-wing preppers consistently say the biggest difference between them and their right-wing peers is the rejection of “bunker mentality” — the idea of filling a bunker with beans, rice, guns and ammo and expecting to be able to survive the apocalypse alone.

    Shonkwiler gives an example of a right-wing guy with a rifle on his back, who falls down the stairs and breaks a leg. If he doesn’t have medical training and a community to help, “he’s going to die before he gets to enjoy all his freeze-dried food.”

    “People are our greatest asset,” Killjoy said. When Hurricane Helene carved a path of destruction through Asheville, North Carolina in 2024, Killjoy, who used to live in the city, loaded her truck with food and generators and drove there to help.
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    Inshirah Overton also subscribes to the idea of community. The attorney, who came to prepping after enduring Hurricane Irene in 2011, owns a half-acre plot of land in New Jersey where she grows food and has beehives.

    She stores fruit, vegetables and honey but also gives them to friends and neighbors. “My plan is to create a community of people who have a vested interest in this garden,” she said.

    At one point, Overton toyed with the idea of buying a “bug-out” property in Vermont, somewhere to escape to, but desire for community for her and her two daughters stopped her. In Vermont, “no one knows me and I’m just a random Black lady, and they’ll be like: ‘Oh, OK, right, sure. You live here? Sure. Here’s the barrel of my shotgun. Turn around.’”
    This focus on community may stem in part from left-wing preppers’ growing fears around the climate crisis, predicted to usher in far-reaching ecological, social and economic breakdown. It cannot be escaped by retreating to a bunker for a few weeks.

    As Trump guts weather agencies, pledges to unwind the Federal Emergency Management Administration and slashes climate funding — all while promising to unleash the fossil fuel industry — climate concerns are only coming into sharper focus.

    They’re top of mind for Brekke Wagoner, the creator and host of the Sustainable Prepping YouTube channel, who lives in North Carolina with her four children. She fears increasingly deadly summer heat and the “once-in-a-lifetime” storms that keep coming. Climate change “is just undeniable,” she said.

    Her prepping journey started during Trump’s first term. She was living in California and filled with fear that in the event of a big natural disaster, the federal government would simply not be there.

    Her house now contains a week’s worth of water, long-term food supplies, flashlights, backup batteries and a solar generator. “My goal is for our family to have all of our needs cared for,” she said, so in an emergency, whatever help is available can go to others.

    “You can have a preparedness plan that doesn’t involve a bunker and giving up on civilization,” she said.

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    Shonkwiler believes there will be an opportunity to create something new in the aftermath of a crisis. “It begins with preparedness and it ends with a better world,” he said.

    Some also say there’s less tension between left- and right-wing preppers than people might expect. Bounds, the sociology professor, said very conservative preppers she met during her research contacted her during the Covid-19 pandemic to offer help.
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    There is a natural human solidarity that emerges amid disaster, Killjoy said. She recalls a cashier giving her a deep discount on supplies she was buying to take to Asheville post-Helene. “I have every reason to believe that that man is right-wing, and I do think that there is a transcending of political differences that happens in times of crisis,” she said.

    As terrifying events pile up, from the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East to deadly extreme weather, it’s hard to escape the sense we live in a time of rolling existential crises — often a hair’s breadth from global disaster.

    People are increasingly beginning to wonder whether their views on preppers have been misconceived, Mills said. “There is a bigger question floating in the air, which is: Are preppers crazy, or is everyone else?”
    Killjoy has seen a huge change over the last five years in people’s openness to prepping. Those who used to make fun of her for her “go bag” are now asking for advice.

    It’s not necessarily the start of a prepping boom, she said. “I think it is about more and more people adopting preparedness and prepper things into a normal life.”

    Evidence already points this way. Americans stockpiled goods in advance of Trump’s tariffs and online sales of contraceptives skyrocketed in the wake of his election, amid concerns he would reduce access. Shows like “The Walking Dead,” meanwhile, have thrust the idea of prepping into popular culture and big box stores now sell prepping equipment and meal kits.

    People are hungry to learn about preparedness, said Shonkwiler. “They have the understanding that the world as we knew it, and counted on it, is beginning to cease to be. … What we need to be doing now is figuring out how we can survive in the world that we’ve created.”

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