A Disaster Guide from TV and Cinema Preparing for the Global Blackout - Denis Newiak Kartoniert (TB)

Dead phones chaos in hospitals looming nuclear meltdowns: For years experts all over the world have been warning of a widespread power blackout-and the devastating consequences for society as a whole. However just as before the Covid-19 pandemic politicians and the public are hardly aware of the far-reaching risks: A blackout would catch us almost completely unprepared.As for other (supposedly improbable) disruptive events disaster movies and sci-fi series have long shown what would happen if modern society were to lose its lifeblood. Denis Newiak looks into those filmic fictions for ans wers to pressing questions:How can we prepare ourselves for the dramatic consequences of such a crisis? And can the collapse of modernity still be stopped?