It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

W. Edwards Deming

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Interesting NYT article on survival/prepping.

The preparedness industry, always prosperous during hard times, is thriving again now. In Douglas’s circles, people talk about “the end of the world as we know it” with such regularity that the acronym Teotwawki (tee-ought-wah-kee) has come into widespread use. The Vivos Group, which sells luxury bunkers, until recently had a clock on its Web site that was ticking down to Dec. 21, 2012 — a date that, thanks to the Mayan calendar, some believe will usher in the end times. But amid the alarmism, there is real concern that the world is indeed increasingly fragile — a concern highlighted most recently by Hurricane Sandy. The storm’s aftermath has shown just how unprepared most of us are to do without the staples of modern life: food, fuel, transportation and electric power.

How to Survive Societal Collapse

Need the list for survival?  http://www.greatdreams.com/basic.htm.  Need an escape plan? Strategic Relocation - Skousen

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Charles Darwin