[lonewolf]

Is what is felt best for thyself (to your own continuation) also that which is 'best' for planet Earth?

Personally, I'm 'hoping' for Apple but acting on probably getting Banana'd. My 'worse case' scenario (for the planet and all that may yet live upon it) would be (is) Cherry (- excluding E-berry and F-Pie from my 'consideration', obviously). BTW, 45% of 'my fellow countrymen' reportedly chose (prefer) Faith-Pie ... omg! Can you say, Peak Faith-Pie? Will the might/wrath of (their) god be visited upon us? Above all, Thy will be done, on Earth as it is in heaven? Good luck with that 'plan', particularly ye which is to be-eth "left behind".

[eXpat]

Banana-burst tastes really nice!!

[hillsidedigger]

It will be very sudden and not too far ahead characterized by natural disasters (most likely is famine) combined with widespread military conflicts.

[Sixstrings]

When you say collapse, exactly which countries are you talking about? I can't see outright famine happening in the US within my lifetime.. if you mean more famine in other parts of the world, then yeah of course that's likely.

But that's been going on for millennia, not exactly anything new.

[the48thronin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'W')hen you say collapse, exactly which countries are you talking about? I can't see outright famine happening in the US within my lifetime.. if you mean more famine in other parts of the world, then yeah of course that's likely.

But that's been going on for millennia, not exactly anything new.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('the48thronin', 'T')he simplest would be anything that caused the comcheck debit fuel cards to stop working.. transport would cease from just that one event.. you are then 9 meals from anarchy....

Cant happen you say.... LOL

[JJ]

I vote "cherry-merry"; a long emergency as JK puts it. More hours cut, more layoffs, less production: my phone bill went up 5.00 (in taxes) this month, interest rates on two credit cards jacked up (we're gonna pay them off now) lots of little things, but a never ending cascade of them. As a matter of fact, almost everything I'm billed for went up this month.

[the48thronin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JJ', 'I') vote "cherry-merry"; a long emergency as JK puts it. More hours cut, more layoffs, less production: my phone bill went up 5.00 (in taxes) this month, interest rates on two credit cards jacked up (we're gonna pay them off now) lots of little things, but a never ending cascade of them. As a matter of fact, almost everything I'm billed for went up this month.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('the48thronin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JJ', 'I') vote "cherry-merry"; a long emergency as JK puts it. More hours cut, more layoffs, less production: my phone bill went up 5.00 (in taxes) this month, interest rates on two credit cards jacked up (we're gonna pay them off now) lots of little things, but a never ending cascade of them. As a matter of fact, almost everything I'm billed for went up this month.

[lonewolf]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'I') didn't vote. It is stupid. Collapse will be different by country, region, county, and town.

[Roy]

I chose banana burst.

Because, in terms of the overall health of the biosphere, a fast crash would be better, and future prospects for human survival and/or quality of life would also be better in a fast crash scenario IMO.

Now I realize that most of humanity would not survive such a halt, myself included. But I am talking in terms of the planet here and humanity in general... Not my personal situation.

In a slow decline we will burn every last bit of any and everything that will burn, and eat everything that will provide nourishment, leaving us a planet not necessarily hospitable to human life.

That's the worst-case in my view.

I think we're in major population overshoot and the crash in population is, if one accepts current research as fact, inevitable. We are after all, just another mammalian species on this planet.

I read somewhere (I may be off slightly) that 90% of all species that ever existed on this planet are extinct.

What makes us exempt from this trend? Certainly our behavior on the whole resembles yeast in a vat of wine more than a species living in harmony with its environment (excluding some tribes in remote areas of the planet that have yet to be exploited fully by our society and its agents).

[Revi]

It takes a little while for a global system to go down. I agree that something could happen, like in Haiti, but for the most part it will be a slow deterioration. There is a town north of us where the paper mill is barely functioning and the town lost 65% of its population.

I see something like that happening to most towns around here.

People will all cluster close to the big cities, but they won't be let in.

Better to eat squirrel (or crow) and take our chances in the towns outside the bubble of affluence.

[Ludi]

I'd prefer the collapse be as fast and as soon as possible, but that's not what I expect. I expect it will be slow and miserable.

So I didn't vote in the poll.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'I')'d prefer the collapse be as fast and as soon as possible, but that's not what I expect. I expect it will be slow and miserable.

So I didn't vote in the poll.

[lonewolf]

right! banana-burst with whipped cream and a cherry on top comin' right up

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'I')'d prefer the collapse be as fast and as soon as possible, but that's not what I expect. I expect it will be slow and miserable.

So I didn't vote in the poll.

[Narz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('the48thronin', '
')Any number of eventws could lead to starvation in the USA in 3 days to a week.

[Narz]

I think slow decline will happen but perhaps a fast crash would be better for the planet.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Narz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('the48thronin', '
')Any number of eventws could lead to starvation in the USA in 3 days to a week.