Doomsday prepper with ‘survival farm’ says ‘no person’s laughing now’ as WW3 fears rise
Peter Dawe has created a ‘doomsday farm’ and said people will not think he is nuts in the coming months when it turns out he was right to be fearful all this time.
Peter Dawe is taking no chances(Image: James Linsell-Clark / SWNS)
A tech tycoon who has created a doomsday farm where several hundred survivalists would be able to live in safety said no one is laughing at him now.
As World War 3 fears intensify and brutal attacks continue between the US, Israel and Iran, Peter Dawe said people no longer “think he is mad” for thinking and planning ahead should the worst case scenario hit Britain.
He said he is more than prepared should society crumble, and has lifted the lid on the 1,500 acre ‘self-sustainable’ farm in Norfolk he has ready should war hit the UK. The 71-year-old has announced the fully-sustainable project called Beat the Bear, could now feed 1,000 people with its orchard, flour mill and livestock and butchery.
The entrepreneur is scared of climate change and political unrest – so said he decided to create the farm in case society crumbles, so he and his family have a safe space to live. But Peter said people living beyond their means is much more likely to contribute to a societal collapse than geo-political tensions in the Middle East.
He said: “I have been doing this for 20 years and when I started, people used to think I was mad. Now people say to me ‘You might be right’. That mood has definitely changed. And yet I don’t see any additional people taking action like I do and I don’t understand why.
“The chickens are definitely coming home to roost. But it’s the socio-economic problems in the UK that worry me the most.”
The Beat The Bear project now boasts a small herd of pigs and chickens as well as cows and sheep. Vegetables are being grown on the farm and Peter is working towards ‘significant’ organic areas to make sure they can survive without chemical treatments. #
The site is also home to its own butchers, dairy, flour mill and Peter presses his own oil for diesel. Peter still has plans to open up the farm to other like-minded people but said people would need to be prepared to change their lifestyles.
Peter, who would require a yearly subscription fee of anything from £10,000 to £100,000 per person, explained “When I started, I assumed we would build a community in advance of any problems. But experience has said that most people who are prepared to undergo a level of change would rather go up than down.
“We’ve concluded that we would identify the people we wanted and if it came to it, we would invite them to join us when they had motivation. If there ever is food shortages and a great deal of insecurity, you’d probably find we’d have a fair few.”
But Peter is not concerned about surviving a nuclear war as ‘if it gets that bad’, then he doesn’t want to survive it. And while the current US-Israel war is on his radar, Peter said the way people live gives him much more cause for concern.
He said: “I’ve always assumed and worked on the basis that society would degrade in a similar way that society degraded in Zimbabwe, Lebanon and Syria. Eventually you would get to the point where you have war lords and a fundamentally violent system.
“People and this country are living beyond their means. Everyone is living on credit and eventually that credit runs out.
“A crisis like this can actually make bankers more cautious about lending money and in this case, our bankers are the sovereign wealth funds of the oil rich countries and China.” Peter, who was made an OBE in 2001 for his work combating child pornography, keeps a stockpile of tins in his house in case of an emergency.
He has urged others to consider their plans for potential societal collapse. Peter added: “We need to think about these things because it is much better to prepare than get caught short.
“I got cross every time I see this when there is a disaster on the telly and that’s people standing around asking where’s the government. You have got to assume that the government is busy looking after itself and that in a crisis, you shouldn’t stand there waiting for someone to come in and help.
“It never happens in a timely manner and quite often it never happens. I’m now 71 and the likelihood is I’m not going to benefit from the work I’ve put into the Beat the Bear project. But as my son says, he doesn’t have to worry about all this stuff because I’ve got it sorted for him.”
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