SEVEN DAYS and that's it. That's the time it takes to go from your biggest worry being who to text vote for in Celebrity Big Brother Dancing on the Jungle Ice or what to tug yourself off to that night while the government wipes your bum and having your local supermarket spoon feed you all you want to BABIES - THE OTHER WHITE MEAT and ITZ. They aren't planning on keeping you around if it takes any more than a week of effort and planning. You're on your own after that. Nothing a mass grave can't sort out as long as you're the one sending out orders to the bulldozer drivers.
One week. That is it.That is the length of item it takes for them to say "fuck this noise" and flush you. They will not fight to the death for you or struggle endlessly for your benefit or survival. By this time a week on Tuesday it will be Liberia 2 - The Road Warrior.
If you think there's no single thing (or group of things/events) in the world that can cause a disruption for a mere seven days or more then please get yourself a pool installed in your garden ASAP. It will make an ideal mass grave for everyone else who thought like you.
Time to start packing it. Well, only if, you know, you like eating and living and stuff. Great disaster could easily be avoided with modest precautions by the population. In the past civilisations had the sense to have granaries and emergency supplies for lean times.
It's not even that expensive and can be done by almost anyone, especially in the UK as most here are.
It does not take a major disaster. It doesn't need to be WW3. All you need is enough disruptions and it will accumulate and multiply into this easily avoidable hell. There are endless examples of natural disasters that could wreak havoc in the past. Those fooling themselves into the idea of the world being one big hugbox of love with the only alternative being outright disasters wiping out all life overnight are sorely mistaken.
A week of disruptions is nothing in the grand scheme, historically there have been many unavoidable disasters where whole seasons or even a year has been sown with disasters or one big disaster, most of which were natural and easily repeatable at any time. And the thing to note is that with these huge disasters that have happend in the past some people have obviously survived. Personally I'd rather be in that group of survivors passing on their genes to better times when ITZ HITZ rather than the ones who don't even get a footnote.
ALL OF WHICH CAN BE SURVIVED AND AVOIDED BY A RELATIVE PITTANCE OF CASH AND A LITTLE TIME
>>1896 >By this time a week on Tuesday it will be Liberia 2 - The Road Warrior.
FFS. Don't these people know anything? It's "Liberia 2 - Electric Boogaloo".
>In the past civilisations had the sense to have granaries and emergency supplies for lean times.
We still have this thanks to the Common Agricultural Policy and its actually one the reasons why we have it. Food prices will remain normal in the west.
And how many months/years per person throughout Europe will this supply feed and last for? What types of food? How much? How will it be distributed? Still waiting...
These "food mountains" are bullshit. I know fine well they've had them for a while and last time I looked at the stock numbers (and double and triple checked with EU press releases and reputable media) as big as the clueless thought these things were it was all a drop in the bucket for what would actually be needed. Gone as fast as the supermarket stocks, even if you could get a sniff of it. Anyone thinking it's for anything other than short term economic reasons in the current market is utterly clueless. Unless of course you think the "wine lakes" are there for emergency supplies of wine. You know, when people are dying in the streets for lack of wine. As they do.
Any real problems and prices WILL go up and shortages WILL happen. Your hugbox dreams simply go against all reality.
Lad, you don't know what you're talking about. If you're interested, most of the "types of food" are butter, feed grain and stuff like that. There are protocols in place which could get the reserves mobilised but as you've (ever so cleverly!) pointed out, even the biggest granary on the face of the planet wouldn't support a whole continent for very long. However, they do exist and there are enough large supplies of food to be used as emergency domestic relief in a food crisis. I hope you feel incredibly silly for "calling bullshit" on the existence of such things!
Anyway, yes prices will rise and shortages will happen. Most of us have grown up through that - you've been brought up in a period of relative stability so you don't know how these fluctuations work or how people cope. In essence, and as mentioned above, you don't know what you're talking about.
I think you should concentrate on yourself rather than polluting /boo/. After all, there's an apocalypse to prepare for - either focus all your energy on survival, or dedicate yourself to spreading the word where it matters. This is not that place.
