The Next Apocalypse by Chris Begley
Publication Date - November 16, 2021
4 stars
The author is an archaeologist and instructor of survival classes who uses his expertise in both to discuss the future apocalypse, what it will look like and how we can prepare. From the very beginning, Begley insists that any sort of societal collapse isn't going to happen overnight and might even take hundreds of years and we won't know that we are in the stages of an apocalypse until we are looking back in hindsight. And we will look back, because by studying past events, he asserts that there will be survivors. They will survive, not by owning bunkers, firearms and individualistic attitudes but by living in a community and adapting to the new world. This felt to me like a realistic take on how apocalypses happened in the past and how they might happen in the future. At times, this book became very repetitive and even for a short book, I think it could have been cleaned up a bit. It is also very critical of far-right politices so may not be for everyone, however, I really appreciated the tone and the message that it conveyed. I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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