Are we ready if there is a National Emergency?

watched, not atched, and I have duplicated "with no reversal"

It always looks right until after pressing the "post" button.

I have not atched all of the Youtube video yet (there are three hours of it!) but those taking part don't seem to me to be messengers from "above our national government" They are people who have been experiencing climate change, gathering data and analysing it, and projecting the future if it continues with no reversal to develop as it has over the last years with no reversal.

My own take = things are going to get steadily worse financially for Britain. Already it's necessary for us, on an individual basis, to forget about many aspects of what are (or used to be) our public sector - because it's too bad and/or delayed and/or totally inaccessible.

I wouldnt be surprised if we don't get a noticeable "financial crash" situation again pretty soon now I'm afraid.

Personally - I've been getting everything/stocking up/starting to grow some food for myself....because I don't like the look of the way things are going.

I do wonder if they will start up a major war again soon and Britain getting involved. I'd certainly be interested in knowing how the chances of another major war were seen (and when) just before World War 2. I still think there would have been people who would have "seen it coming" just after the end of WW1, a noticeable number who saw it coming in the early 1930s and some who didnt see it coming until That Announcement on the radio. I'm not sure which of those first two groups I would have been in in the event - the "seen it coming in 1918" or "seen it coming in the 1930s" group. I just know I wouldnt have been in the 3rd group...but beyond that...I dont know.

Difficult to tell/to see one's way through everything and the way Big Bad News stuff gets used to push Society in the direction those above our national governments want things to go - as so many give up analysing and deciding for themselves and "take our governments word" for things. Scare people enough and many give up thinking/deciding for themselves personally - look at what happened 2020 onwards after all....

The lack of investment in public infrastructure is a longstanding one, and it will take many years to bring it up to a standard which would prepare the UK for the future.

We complained about austerity ten yrs ago but then along came Brexit, Covid and Ukraine, which stopped any recovery in its tracks. We had no reserves to help, now we have even less

There are all sorts of possible emergencies including ones we can't predict but the one that concerns me most immediately is the risk of Farage and Reform becoming the next government.

We haven’t recovered from 2008 yet, which is why we are seeing so much division etc. another crash will push us over the edge politically speaking I think.

There's not just a potential climate emergency, there is also a distinct possibility of a financial emergency in the foreseeable future. Stock markets are going crazy and private debt is at a very high level. It would be as well to be prepared for crash which has far reaching effects. Like the 1920s or the 2008 GFC.

Fossil fuel emergency

There isn’t an emergency in the availability of fossil fuels fuels there is proven resources for a century and beyond. The risk is some kind of political or warfare crisis causing restrictions and price increases. That affects inflation and is balanced by wage and benefit increases. Currently the UK is moving to nuclear and renewable energy, probably not fast enough but that can be changed if needed.

Climate change, we need to decide which is more important food security or environmental enhancement, because if food imports were ever restricted the U.K. would be vulnerable immediately. Floods and drought will happen periodically we can’t control that but we can build more reservoirs and enlarge rivers and other watercourses to remove the water faster.

Apart from migrants there isn’t a risk of the UK being invaded but the impotence of Europe countering Russia in Ukraine is encouraging Russia to be aggressive, Putin sees us as really weak that is not good.

Iv'e just watched Chris Packham's speech opening the meeting, which took it off to a good start.

I am stopping now and going to bed - The facts and figures can wait for tomorrow, and I don't intend to watch it in large chunks and risk losing focus on what is being said.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-PFKT1SNc4

I think that GN is ahead of the curve on this one. There was a thread not long ago recognising the fact that the U.K. is not prepared.

I'm stocking up on cheap tinned food before the prices go up...

I watched the Briefing on YouTube and am suspicious there's been nothing in the News about the disturbing facts laid bare.

I await to see if the petition/letter the public are being urged to sign to publicise the frightening findings are released nationwide. It all smacks of 'nanny state' to me

There is a YouTube, I haven’t watched it, merely googled.

Im sorry but it seems a bit of a word salad to me.

What exactly do they want this emergency briefing to say in terms of what they want ordinary people to do??

I never saw a report of that in the news anywhere!!!!!

Who called this meeting? Who exactly came to it? Is this another exercise similar to the one about a "possible Lockdown at some point" that funnily enough happened not that long before they did call a Lockdown (tries to remember the name I've heard bandied around for "Project - lets have another go at the people we are supposed to represent"). Isn't it "Project Pegasus" if I recall aright?

I’d like to think past events have made us more aware of our shortcomings and unpreparedness.

However I doubt it, sadly.

We will run around like headless chickens once again when ‘something’ strikes.

It is good to know that this is being taken seriously where it needs to be.

There will be very little that ordinary people can do beyond Boy Scout basics and there is already copious advice at that level for those who want it. So I think that a televised briefing as envisaged will just cause general alarm and demands for services that won’t be forthcoming.

For the elderly, one request might be for a magic pill so that when the emergency happens we can if we wish put ourselves beyond reach of further harm.