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re: What is the best place to be during the collapse?
Posted on 3/17/14 at 10:21 am to olgoi khorkhoi
Posted on 3/17/14 at 10:21 am to olgoi khorkhoi
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Posted on 3/17/14 at 10:22 am to olgoi khorkhoi
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The majority of Americans don't produce anything anymore and don't know how. Our food is dropped off in stores and we go pick it up once a week and store it in closets and refrigerators. We don't produce food or fire or any of the things it takes to sustain life. We live in a house of cards that is held up by electrical grids and supply lines.
That's all fine as long as everything works as planned. But if one of the multitudinous, complex components fails, even if only for a few weeks, the whole thing falls apart.
The farther into your technological eutopia we go, the less self reliant and the more vulnerable we become, as a society. Do you think the Amish will know or care if the grid goes down or the wheat supply dwindles because of drought or disease or the dollar collapses?
It would take a calamity of mass proportions to achieve what you've described. I admitted in an earlier post that a war or a massive natural disaster yet to be witnessed by humans could definitely send us back in time. Barring that though, I don't see it happening.
Many here are talking about our society breaking down due to political unrest or the like. I don't see that happening anytime soon.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 10:33 am to LSUSUPERSTAR
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What is the best place to be during the collapse?
Any place that has a wild pig problem! You can't kill enough of them to hurt the population.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 11:27 am to rintintin
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I don't see that happening anytime soon.
Great. You certainly won't be the first person that didn't see something coming, and I suspect you have a lot of company.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 11:54 am to rintintin
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Cable, internet, cell phones, cars, tons of cheap food. These are pretty much ordinary things now and obtainable by almost anyone. Quality of life in this country right now is leaps and bounds above anything ever seen in history for the rich and the poor.
And it's only going to get better IMO.
Finite planet/Finite resources/ever-expanding population.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 11:59 am to LSUSUPERSTAR
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What is the best place to be during the collapse?
They say in a tub with a mattress pulled over you.
But if you can't manage that, a doorway is the next best thing.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 2:45 pm to UncleFestersLegs
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Finite planet/Finite resources/ever-expanding population.
Are you assuming we will use up all of our available resources within our lifetimes?
Also, do you not think the rapid rate at which technology is progressing we will not come up with alternatives?
I don't know, I guess I'm pretty alone on this board as far as having faith in humanity.
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