As much as we would love to have someone like Brad Pitt or Idris Elba in our corner when it comes to a collapse or apocalypse, we are more than likely to find someone and something much different. You might want to think about the more realistic following:

They don’t show you what will happen to millions of our abandoned pets, who will revert to their wild instincts after we stop feeding them, and begin competing with their former owners for food. These films don’t show you what it’s like to walk through an abandoned suburban city, where ten thousand swimming pools have turned into breeding grounds for disease carrying mosquitoes.

They rarely mention the dozens of nuclear power plants that litter the United States. If no one is there to operate them, how long before they melt down and bury millions of survivors under a radioactive cloud?

Then there are the 12,000 facilities around the country that store large quantities of toxic or flammable chemicals and reside close to residential areas. 2,500 of these sites contain chemicals in quantities that, if a catastrophic accident were to occur, could affect 10,000 to 1 million people each. And let’s not forget the 2.5 million miles of oil and gas pipelines that can be found in every state. They suffer hundreds of leaks and ruptures every year and are much more likely to explode when they aren’t maintained. That detail seems to be conveniently forgotten by post-apocalyptic films.

And finally, most post-apocalyptic movies will forget to mention what happens when there aren’t any functional fire departments. Aside from the obvious consequences, like whole neighborhoods routinely burning to the ground, who’s going to put out landfill fires that are occasionally radioactive?

And people wonder why we press them, in these pages, to prepare for the long-haul when it comes to bugging out or in! This is some seriously scary stuff and, while we have pondered it, we also try not to think too deeply about what will become of us – or it just might drive us crazy with worry!

In the end, it is knowing that for every action there really is an opposite and often not so equal reaction. To read more go to Ready Nutrition and, please, enjoy those movies but also take them with an honest grain of salt!