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EU households should stockpile essential supplies to survive at least 72 hours of crisis, Brussels has proposed, as Russia’s war in Ukraine and a darkening geopolitical landscape prompt the bloc to take new steps to increase its security.
The continuing conflict in Ukraine, the Covid-19 pandemic that brutally exposed a lack of crisis response capabilities and the Trump administration’s adversarial stance towards Europe have forced the continent to rethink its vulnerabilities and increase spending on defence and security.
The new initiative comes as European intelligence agencies warn that Russia could attack an EU member state within three to five years, adding to natural threats including floods and wildfires worsened by climate change and societal risks such as financial crises.
Europe faced increased threats “including the possibility of armed aggression against member states”, the European Commission warned on Wednesday as it published a 30-step plan for its 27 capitals to increase their preparedness for crisis and mitigation measures.
My roof? It’s hard to burn wood when you don’t have a fireplace. In summer of course we do it outside. But with the density of a city center that means that it’s hard to store enough wood/coal to make meaningful impact on the amount of water you need to boil to cook.
In winter it would be simply counter productive to go outside and be cold to boil rice.
It’s simply easier - and safer - to have water for drinking and food for eating.
Population centers have different needs.
It doesn’t take that long, just go outside to start it, optionally go back in while its heating up.
Or if that really bothers you so much, gas camping stove?
I, myself am prepared to do it in winter in an apartment.
My discussion is not on the how, but on how you fail to perceive that not everyone is yourself. Some people are more able, others less, some have a studio apartment, others a farm. Some live paycheck to paycheck others don’t. Some have 6 people in their household others do not :)
One size does not fit all. What is easy for you, might not be for others and vice-versa.
Are you just looking for an argument? I start by listing things I have stocked up and you just argue over and over with every single point at how that might not work for someone else. I am not someone else. I have lived in a single bedroom before, sure, I might stock up on different things in such a situation. But I don’t live there anymore and storing rainwater outside is trivially easy for me here.