Is the world preparing for the apocalypse? | BBC News

Preppers have long been planning for the worst-case scenario. Are governments now doing the same?   The UK government has launched a national “Be Ready” campaign, urging people to keep enough food, water and medicine at home to prepare for three days of disruption. Other European countries have similar policies. But for preppers, whose mission it is to ready themselves for a future disaster, this is old news. Have the preppers been vindicated? And what exactly are we prepping for? Tristan Redman speaks to Lucy Easthope about her role as a disaster planning expert and Gabriel Gatehouse joins us in the studio to talk about what he's learnt from interviewing British preppers. Subscribe to our channel here: https://bbc.in/bbcnews For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news Timecodes: 0:00 - Introduction to episode 0:44 - Lucy Easthope explains Nick Bostrom’s Vulnerable World Hypothesis 2:22 - What is a disaster planner? 3:11 - What are the most likely threats to civilisation today in Northern Europe and the US? 5:11 - What exactly are the UK government advising people to do? 7:05 - Why is the UK acting right now? 9:10 - Is the government doing anything to help us? 12:45 - Gabriel Gatehouse chats to Tristan in the studio 13:12 - What is a prepper? 14:57 - What are the tech CEO's doing to prepare? 20:03 - What can the everyday person do to prepare for a possible coming storm? #BBCNews