Needs Assessment
The challenges to meet our essential, individual needs under circumstances of high duress, high threat, and uncertainty are greater than anyone wants to even think about, much less experience. The list below begins to outline the scope and depth of the challenges facing each of us, when we are confronted with the profound changes which result from an era of extreme climate changes capable of radically rearranging the foundations of society, culture and the planet itself.
1. Needs
1. Breathing Air
Quality of Air
Availability of Air
Hot Air
Cold Air
Water
Fresh
Availability
Quantity
Storage
Food
Self Grown
Purchased
Bartered
Move
Sleep
When
How
Buddy System
Under what conditions
Homeostasis
What is it?
How to achieve it?
What is it's importance
Excretion
Trash?
Garbage?
What?
Where?
Disposal?
2. Personal Safety Needs
Security of Body
Can you defend yourself, if attacked?
Can you defend yourself from the environment?
Can you defend yourself against hunger? Famine?
Security of Work
Do you have a skill that is
Practical in time of hardship?
Marketable during time of duress?Trade / Barter Skills
Security of Resources
Trade
Security of Family
Trade
Security of Health
Self Administer
Without a physician
Supply of your medications
Substitutes for medication
Security of Property
Trade
3. Friends and Family
Friendship
Real Friends
Near Friends
Friends who can help
Family
Nearby or Far Away
Mutual SupportDependenceCo Dependence
Sexual Relations
Who
