Nomad, you brought the thread to an interesting territory

I am interested in prepping
Also interested in public safety

From my own experience , and a seminar I heard lately, lots and lots of people are NOT concerned with safety , much less prepping. The speaker mentioned dwindling audience in their CPR and first aid mini-courses (which are free, BTW)

My thoughts are like this : when you talk of consensus , you need people thinking on the same wavelength. However, what I see around me is people who are nuts about sports (and almost nothing else), people who are nuts about politics, people who are nuts about money and doing anything (moral or not ) to get more money. Different groups with different narrow areas of focus

You may say, well, focus on one group at a time. So, sports people can get together ( without the politics type of people) and run a concensus. Well, sorry to say they are also divided as fans of this club or that. Ditto for the politics people. They spend times reading the papers and cusring this politician or that party. They do not seem to able to sit together and agree on anything constructive.

So, can you shed more light on how a community can come together and agree on anything ??? If they couldn't agree on teh imprtance of safety , CPR, and such ( which are offered free of charge ! ) how can they come to agree on anything else.