I can't read the article (paywall) but what always strikes me when people prepare for societal collapse is that we can't really survive very well outside a soci

I can't read the article (paywall) but what always strikes me when people prepare for societal collapse is that we can't really survive very well outside a society. Maybe you can stock up on food, water and ammunition, buy solar panels and batteries and so on. Maybe you build yourself a vegetable garden, even with a medicinal herb corner. Fine. But what when your appendix starts to hurt? What if your precious batteries need servicing? Where will you buy pesticide and fertiliser to keep your garden producing? I just don't think a single person, or an atomic family, can cover all these specialisations. And even if you could, the hungry zombies from the collapsed society will come, and there's only so much ammo you can stockpile. No, if society collapses, there's no escape, and we're dead. Dying of hunger might be the nice and gentle thing to wish for then. So preparing for that particular eventuality is a waste of time. You just can't prepare. Might as well cross our fingers and hope that, yes, it will be hot, climate will be terrible, but somehow humanity will plod on. At least in my locale.