Do you know in which ways, and to what extent, changes in lifestyle, routine, and consumption habits would affect you both psychologically and physically? Do you know how substituting (or being without) everyday products, appliances, foods, services, and utilities, can impact your health, mood, and performance? 

We've seen how people freak out over toilet paper, and everyone knows how things get really crazy when food vanishes. However, this is about everyday stuff we and our family are accustomed to. Some (or even most) of which we don't even think about – until it's missing from the shelves or lacking somehow.

Maybe you've been through this or are already experiencing it now. The water is boiling, and things are accelerating. But I'd argue we're still consuming resources and enjoying the tail end of recent past opulence. In a year or two from now, we might look back and say, "those were good times."

A slow-burning SHTF isn't less deadly, nor does it mean less suffering.

It's still hardship, misery, and distress for many, in fact, for most. Natural disasters and wars present big risks and kill people, sure. But so does inflation, unemployment, and oppression. People go broke, get sick, starve and freeze, commit suicide, enter drugs and crime, and so on, in much larger numbers during such periods.

I'm not really surprised by any of that. I'm not preparing for a meteor hitting the earth, nor a nuclear winter. I didn't see the pandemic coming. But I've been preparing for (and warning about) Thirdworldization for years. Now I see it materializing everywhere.