The list of skills named so far is good. I just have to add making a fire without matches or a lighter.
I learned how when I went to survival camp, as well as other useful skills for an event such as this.
As far as what brings us to this point. I would have to agree Nuclear war s unlikely. As far as a man made threat, a biological disease, like the super flu like in the book The Stand, is more likely.
Otherwise I think we are way over due for a natural disaster that is on the scale of a global catastrophe. Things like super volcano eruptions, asteroid impact, or magnetic pole reversal.
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