Time is rarely kind to books that try to predict the future. Do you recall when Stanford University professor Paul Erhlich, in his 1968 title “The Population Bomb,” warned there would be worldwide famines in the 1970s fueled by an overcrowded planet (“The Population Bomb,” 1968) ? Or remember evangelist Hal Lindsey’s envisioning the Soviet Union’s invasion of Israel in the 1980s (“The Late Great Planet Earth,” 1970)? The zany Jeron Criswell King insisted that Pittsburgh would fall victim to mass cannibalism in 1980 and London would be obliterated by a meteor in 1988 (“Criswell Predicts,” 1968)?
It might seem that Drew Miller is putting himself in odd company with “Preparing to Survive in the Age of Collapse.” After all, his new book opens with a severe warning that “mankind will suffer severe disasters that kill hundreds of millions to billions of people” due to misused technologies and government incompetence.
