Chill out...

Designing a Panic button

Right, we’ve clearly entered this planet at an awkward time.

It’s the time where anybody can have access to anything to better their lives, it is also the time when people have to start changing their behaviours to better the future.

But there is a niche where people are exploiting, creating or maybe just preparing for the results of what we are all hearing about concerning the planets predicament.

Due to years of wrecking the planet with fumes and what not (although we all complain, its made your life more comfortable!) we are now being told that the world is going to be flooded, burnt by the sun, terrorised as well as other natural disasters. Well holy shit! Lets all abandon ship and grab a life jacket.

This whole panic button idea is stupid, fair enough, if you live on a fault line, its good to prepare for earthquakes. But I doubt creating some emergency bunker is going to help in the event of a nuclear attack; if you don’t die from the blast the radiation will get you. 2, what makes you think other people will be looking for you, I’m sure they will be wanting to look after themselves. 3, your going to be stuck in a bloody hole with the same 3 people for the rest of your remaining days, no one needs that!!

The same “just in case” scenario can be said for climate change flooding the planet. There have been products by designers such as N55 who built the Snail Shell System. A portable home that you can roll around suitable for one person. This product may not be aimed directly at emergency survival but its products like these that make people say “shit, we better get one just in case”.



Also, these people that have prepared for major catastrophes have done them selves a mischief from the offset, if you know someone with a boat and you heard the worlds going to flood, what do you do? You go up to that person with the boat and a couple of beers and try get on it with them and so does everyone else because there panicking, rendering the boat useless.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m all up for sustainable energy and living on this “beautiful” planet for as long as possible, but if people spent as much time averting these catastrophes as they do anticipating and preparing for them maybe we might get some where.

One more thing, maybe if there wasn’t so many Panic buttons such as warning signs, life jackets and rubber corners, people will be more chilled out resulting in a friendlier planet, then we can all concentrate about getting it back to how it should be… clean.