“Prepping” by stocking up on stuff to rob your neighbors of their stuff = bad

Harvesting a bit of solar energy if you can afford to is pretty much the opposite of that mentality. I’ve lived/am living through the aftermath of an almost complete collapse here in Lebanon and I can assure you solar power is the only “solution” that doesn’t feel like a complete Faustian bargain. Literally everything else you have to do to live a decent life feels like mortgaging your future for a better shot at reaching it. It’s the most expensive thing we’ve ever done and at least when it comes to domestic electricity I feel like a king

If its WW3 we'll be the partisans. You arent prepping to just survive alone. You should be prepping so that if it comes to that we can have a network of resistance that surives as a group and when China crosses the Pacific we're here to help them.