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13 Global Catastrophic Events Which Could Lead To An American Apocalypse
Is the strongest and most powerful nation on the planet headed for an apocalypse which will bring it to its knees? We live in a world that is becoming increasingly unstable, and apocalyptic themes have become very common in books, movies, television shows and video games. It is almost as if there is an unconscious understanding on a societal level that something very big and very bad is coming, even if the vast majority of the population cannot specifically identify what that is going to be. Last week, the Global Challenges Foundation released a new report entitled “Global Catastrophic Risks 2016” in which they discussed various apocalyptic events that they believe could wipe out more than 10 percent of the population of our planet, and they warned that these types of events “are more likely than we intuitively think”…
Sebastian Farquhar, director at the Global Priorities Project, told the Press Association:
“There are some things that are on the horizon, things that probably won’t happen in any one year but could happen, which could completely reshape our world and do so in a really devastating and disastrous way.
“History teaches us that many of these things are more likely than we intuitively think. Many of these risks are changing and growing as technologies change and grow and reshape our world. But there are also things we can do about the risks.”
According to this new report, we are five times more likely to die from the various apocalyptic catastrophes that they analyzed than we are from a car accident.
In this article, I want to discuss some of the most important threats that they analyzed, in addition to adding some of my own to the list. But first I want to mention that I do not believe that the Global Challenges Foundation is correct to identify climate change as one of the most significant catastrophic threats that humanity is facing. Our climate has always been changing, and I do believe that we will see wild climate shifts in the years ahead. However, human activity plays an exceedingly small role in all of this, and there is not very much that we can do to prevent what is going to happen either. Most of the climate change that we are going to see in our future is going to be as a result of other catastrophes in this list, so I have not included it as a separate item.
With that being said, let’s quickly examine some of the potential threats identified by the Global Challenges Foundation…
Supervolcanoes
In various locations around the globe, there are gigantic supervolcanoes which could dramatically change the course of human history in a single moment by erupting. In the United States, the Yellowstone supervolcano is becoming increasingly active, and a full-blown eruption could potentially be up to 2,000 times more powerful than the eruption of Mount St. Helens back in 1980. As I mentioned the other day, major metropolitan areas such as Salt Lake City and Denver would be essentially destroyed, food production in this country would be virtually wiped out, and a “volcanic winter” would cool global temperatures by up to 20 degrees for up to several years.
Asteroids And Comets
This is something that the Obama administration is actually quite concerned about. During his tenure, NASA has established a “Planetary Defense Coordination Office” that is in charge of tracking giant space rocks, and NASA is working to develop a method to destroy incoming asteroids using nuclear weapons.
Scientists admit that they only know about a small fraction of the near-Earth objects that are actually out there, and we get hit “by surprise” all the time. If we were to get hit at just the right place by a very large object, like say just off the east coast of the United States, the consequences would almost be too horrible for words.
Today, 39 percent of all Americans live in counties that directly border a shoreline, and most of those people are along the east coast. According to the University of California at Santa Cruz website, if a huge asteroid did slam into the Atlantic Ocean, it could potentially produce a 400 foot high tsunami that would sweep inland for many, many miles and kill millions upon millions of Americans in the process.
Natural Pandemics
The flu pandemic of 1918 killed approximately 50,000,000 people worldwide, and scientists assure us that it will happen again one day.
Yes, we have come a long way in fighting disease, but as we learned during the recent Ebola outbreak, a really nasty virus can grip the entire world with fear in a very short period of time.
Engineered Pandemics
This is probably even a bigger threat than natural pandemics, because now we have the technology to genetically alter naturally occurring diseases and make them even stronger.
Whether it is on purpose or by accident, it is only a matter of time before a genetically-modified superbug gets released into the general population, and when that day arrives it may make all previous pandemics look like a Sunday picnic.
Artificial Intelligence
Could someday entities that we have created turn on us and start killing us?
Some might refer to this as “the Terminator scenario”, and it is becoming more realistic with each passing day as our technological capabilities continue to increase at an exponential rate.
Geoengineering
The human race now has the capability to purposely modify the weather, and this means that we also have the capability to do a tremendous amount of damage.
Have you ever looked up and noticed long white trails criss-crossing the sky? This is being done on purpose, and when they spray chemicals into our atmosphere it could have some very severe long-term consequences that the authorities may not be anticipating.
Nuclear War
Back during the Cold War, most Americans would have probably named this as the number one catastrophic threat facing America, but these days most people tend to believe that “the Cold War” is over.
So nobody has really objected while the U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal has been reduced by about 95 percent, and Barack Obama insists that he would like to reduce it even further.
Meanwhile, both the Russians and the Chinese are rapidly modernizing their nuclear forces, and they both have developed hypersonic glide vehicles that can defeat any missile defense system that the U.S. can put up.
Our relationship with Russia has already gone down the tubes, and our relationship with China is rapidly deteriorating. In fact, China just rejected a request for the USS John C. Stennis to make a routine port call at Hong Kong. Most Americans assume that a war with either one of them is impossible, but the truth is that we may find ourselves in a conflict with both of them at the same time eventually.
The catastrophic threats above were ones that were mentioned in the report from the Global Challenges Foundation. Below are some additional items that I would like to add to the list…
Islamic Terror
It isn’t just ISIS that we need to be concerned about. Islamic terror is exploding all over the planet, and according to Wikipedia there have already been 95 such attacks globally so far in 2016.
Up until now, they have been killing us with guns and bombs, but what happens when they inevitably get their hands on chemical, biological or nuclear weapons?
Terror attacks using weapons of mass destruction could literally turn our society completely upside down virtually overnight, and it is only a matter of time until this starts happening.
Power Grid Failure
Someday you may wake up and discover that the power grid has totally failed. Just try to imagine a world without any lights, cell phones, computers, televisions, ATMs, heating and cooling systems, credit card readers, gas pumps, cash registers, refrigerators or hospital equipment. A massive electromagnetic pulse, either from the sun or as the result of a nuclear blast, could instantly plunge society back into the 1800s.
The EMP Commission spent years studying this, and they told Congress back in 20o8 that up to 90 percent of the U.S. population could be dead within one year of such an event due to starvation, disease and the breakdown of society. So this is a threat that people better start taking seriously.
Cyberwar
World War III will not be fought like previous wars, and the Internet is one area where we are particularly vulnerable. The Chinese, the Russians and the North Koreans have all been working very hard to develop their cyberwarfare capabilities, and I was recently told by someone that has deep connections inside the U.S. intelligence community that our power grid could be taken down with just the push of a button. That is how easy it would be.
With each passing year, we are all becoming more and more dependent on the Internet. So what would our lives be like if it was suddenly gone?
That is something to think about.
Economic Collapse
If you want to watch society melt down right in front of your eyes, just take away all of the goodies. On The Economic Collapse Blog I have written more than a million words about the coming economic problems in this country. We got a very small taste of what is approaching in 2008 and 2009, and yet most people do not seem to have taken that warning seriously. Since that time, our long-term economic and financial problems have grown far more dire, and now the early chapters of a new economic crisis are unfolding right in front of our eyes, and yet still most people don’t seem to be alarmed.
If you want to see how devastating an economic collapse can be on a nation, just pick up a history book and start reading about the Great Depression of the 1930s. Unfortunately, what we are heading for is going to be a whole lot worse than that.
Civil Unrest & Martial Law
As the economy collapses and other things on this list start happening, people are going to be absolutely freaking out. A whole host of polls and surveys have shown that anger and frustration have been building up to unprecedented levels in this country, and at some point there is going to be a huge explosion.
Desperate people do desperate things, and we got small previews of what is coming in Ferguson and in Baltimore. Violent crime rates are already rising in our major cities, and many among the elite are getting out while the getting is good. In fact, 3,000 millionaires left the city of Chicago last year alone.
Of course whenever civil unrest erupts, the government responds by trying to regain control, and eventually things are going to get so bad in this nation that we will start to see martial law imposed in various areas. We saw a little bit of this in Ferguson and in Baltimore, but that was nothing compared to what we will eventually experience.
Catastrophic Earthquakes
A historic earthquake along the New Madrid fault seismic zone, the Cascadia Subduction zone or any of the major faults in California could affect millions of lives, cause hundreds of billions of dollars in damage, and literally change the geography of our continent.
Personally, I believe that those of us that are fortunate enough to live long enough will witness historic earthquakes in all of those areas, and scientists assure us that all three zones are way overdue for major seismic events.
Even if just one of the catastrophic events that I have discussed above were to take place, it would completely change society.
Unfortunately, I believe that we are entering an era of history in which a “perfect storm” that consists of a confluence of these catastrophic events will shake this nation to the core.
58 Comments on "13 Global Catastrophic Events Which Could Lead To An American Apocalypse"
makati1 on Fri, 6th May 2016 7:08 pm
All are possible, but few are probable.
Some are already underway. Some are overdue. A few are probable. I could give you my list but it would vary from yours depending on your degree of education, intelligence, or denial.
Instead, I will wait and read most of your comments. I will say that ‘artificial intelligence’ is the least likely to ever happen, although it made a good read in some of the SF novels I enjoy.
onlooker on Fri, 6th May 2016 7:21 pm
The entire planet is facing a global catastrophe that is inevitable at this point due to overshoot of population, a reeling environment that will increasingly be unable to support all the humans on Earth. As for the other catastrophes mentioned here. I would cite a Pandemic as very likely to happen sometime soon. Economic collapse is a given it may happen slowly or more abrupt. Power grid failure due to this economic collapse is a given. Massive cyber attack is a possibility which then could lead to a nuclear war. One threat not mentioned is abrupt climate change from massive release of methane. That is appearing more and more likely to happen within decades if not years. This climate change would decimate worldwide agriculture. As for singling out the US, well certainly US has some unique vulnerabilities but it also has some strengths including its military, a relatively low population to resource ratio and a government that while corrupt is a robust one that can to some degree provide law and order and maintain some level of social cohesion. All in all it is tough to predict what parts of the world will be hit hardest and the soonest. All areas have their unique vulnerabilities especially Asia with its huge population and yes the US has some significant vulnerabilities no doubt.
makati1 on Fri, 6th May 2016 7:39 pm
Onlooker, Climate change is fast approaching the hockey stick part of the graph. years may be all we have left of a hospitable world.
As for your defense of the Us as being better positioned to survive, I disagree. Maybe you are too close to the forest and only see the propaganda trees?
A military that has not won a war, or even a ‘police action’ since … maybe WW1. (Russia won WW2)
Ability to grow food on frankenfarms that rely on OIL, and a complex chemical industry, to exist. LMAO
What resources? Have you looked at what the Us imports out of necessity? Even 20% of it’s food.
Do you call a Police State and dictatorship a ‘survival advantage? I don’t. THAT is America when the SHTF. I don’t want to be there when it happens, and it is coming.
Apneaman on Fri, 6th May 2016 8:11 pm
Another post from the Jesus freak retard.
No mention of any environmental issue as per usual from fairy tale boy. Jay-sus would never let that happen.
Total con artist. What else would you expect from a former DC lawyer fish? His
whorewife too. She a little cute. Be fun I bet. Them christian goody two shoes girls can be quite fun. Repressed carnal Christian girls MmmmmmmHey Snyder, let me know if the wife’s faith starts slipping. We can arrange a session and I’ll have here calling out the lords name in no time. Good as new.
Apneaman on Fri, 6th May 2016 8:17 pm
Catastrophic Canadian Wildfire Is a Sign of Destruction to Come
Less snow and warmer spring mean more acres burned
“Scientists say big fires will ignite sooner and sooner in the year in the western U.S. and Canada as the snow pack continues to dwindle during warmer winters or dries out sooner during warmer springs, leaving terrain parched for more weeks of the year. In the American West a 1-degree Celsius rise in average temperature could increase the annual acreage burned by up to 600 percent in certain regions.”
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/catastrophic-canadian-wildfire-is-a-sign-of-destruction-to-come/?WT.mc_id=SA_DD_20160506
Davy on Fri, 6th May 2016 8:29 pm
It renders down to the effects of abrupt climate change, peak oil dynamics, and economic decline on the food chain. People want to sensationalize things but collapse has always centered on food in the end. We are in the worst possible collapse situations because there are no lands to migrate too as in the days of old. We are stuck with what we got and that is less by the day.
Apneaman on Fri, 6th May 2016 8:36 pm
George Carlin — Religion is Bullshit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r-e2NDSTuE
Apneaman on Fri, 6th May 2016 8:57 pm
Doug Stanhope – Jesus Never Made You Laugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVvCe6xZvOk
Apneaman on Fri, 6th May 2016 9:03 pm
Jim Jefferies – Religion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4prBWqOGdM
energy investor on Fri, 6th May 2016 9:13 pm
Apn,
I am not a Christian, but I find your tone and comments rather nauseating. If that was your intention, well, your call. But try not to pollute these web sites please.
There are genuine people discussing serious subjects here. I appreciate their views whether I agree with them or not.
If, on the other hand you disappeared, it would be a relief.
Anonymous on Fri, 6th May 2016 9:31 pm
#14. They could run out of High Fructose Corn Syrup and Whopper patties.
makati1 on Fri, 6th May 2016 10:33 pm
Someone got his non-Christina toes tramped on? Awww…
rdberg1957 on Fri, 6th May 2016 11:04 pm
The nexus of population overshoot. climate change and peak oil dynamic is like a vise which will squeeze us. It is uncertain which will erupt first as the biggest problem, but they will all have major impacts on agriculture, mortality and require massive adaptations which we are unlikely to complete.
Anonymous on Fri, 6th May 2016 11:04 pm
#15 Trump, or Clinton wins spokesman for the empire ‘contest’.(pick one or other).
Boat on Fri, 6th May 2016 11:31 pm
mak,
Why why why do you lie lie lie.
U.S. agricultural import values rise throughout the projection period to about $170 billion in
fiscal year 2025, up from $122 billion in 2016. These increases are boosted by gains in U.S.
consumer incomes and demand for a large variety of foods. Strong growth in horticultural
imports is assumed to continue, contributing more than half of the overall increase in
agricultural imports during the projection period.
• With the value of U.S. exports initially falling, the agricultural trade balance is expected to
decline from 2014’s record high of $43.1 billion to $9.5 billion in fiscal year 2016. The U.S.
agricultural trade surplus rebounds somewhat through 2018 before falling marginally over the
rest of the projection period to under $6 billion in fiscal year 2025.
The US had a net 43 billion trade surplus in 2014. The
Boat on Fri, 6th May 2016 11:32 pm
http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/2017463/oce-2016-1.pdf
Read page 59 of the report.
makati1 on Sat, 7th May 2016 12:03 am
Boat, what “report”? Do you mean that pack of lies and deceptions put out by the US Department of Propaganda? I’m talking about percentages of food consumed in the US, not dollar values.
Where does your coffee come from? Chocolate? Off season veggies and fruits? Do you read the labels on the caned goods you purchase? Maybe you should. Swiss cheese does not come from Wisconsin. LOL
Anonymous on Sat, 7th May 2016 12:24 am
I thought this was a discussion about global catastrophes. AKA, amerika. How’d the corny get side-track you into discussing well…corn?
Oh, yea, american corporate mono-cropping. Heavily subsidized. And entirely dependent upon oil. Which the uS also does not produce near enough of to meet its own needs. Up there with oil, auto, coal, nuclear and tbtf banks. If the uS had little or no access to plunder the world’s food, the same way it plunders oil, the average merikan would have lot less cheetos and philly cheesesteaks to cram down their gaping maws.
Dollars…pffff..what are those again?
Boat on Sat, 7th May 2016 12:54 am
mak,
The US has been a net exporter in agriculture for decades. Other commodities we run huge deficits. You dont have to make shyt up to point fingers. We run a total deficit with most countries. Anonymous is right. We do heavily subsidize agriculture. We do import around 130 billion in food. But we just export more.
Apneaman on Sat, 7th May 2016 1:07 am
Boat’s really into corn
holingWe all need a hobby
Apneaman on Sat, 7th May 2016 2:28 am
Boat kinda reminds me of Chumlee from Pawn Stars.
Cept Chum has better grammar.
Anonymous on Sat, 7th May 2016 3:59 am
The bulk of the empire’s exports, is mostly corn, and some other bulk type mono-crops for the most part. Not ‘food’ as such. Those subsidized bulk mono-crops artificially low prices, are mostly used to drive poor farmers in the destination countries into poverty. In the uS, food exports are weaponized like everything else the in the homeland…
But the uS doesn’t just use ‘cheap’ food against dirt poor farmers in the global south. It uses it against its ‘friends’ every change it gets. To allow uS mega-food congloms to supplant local production and food chains even among its ‘friends and allies’
onlooker on Sat, 7th May 2016 4:11 am
That is all true Anonymous and what is worse is it is allowing so many people on this planet to be alive who would otherwise logically and naturally not be born or perish.
makati1 on Sat, 7th May 2016 5:50 am
The US exports pig feed and wheat. How much corn and wheat can you eat if they stop importing all of the things that the US does NOT grow? And American food exports are fast becoming illegal in many countries because of it’s toxic contaminants.
How many Americans would like doing without their coffee? Or chocolate? Or all of the other imports that are part of the American diet? Numbers from governments are more bullshit than fact. Especially from the Us. You can only eat so much grain and many are allergic to wheat and other grains. You just want to believe that the Us is food independent when the real facts prove otherwise.
makati1 on Sat, 7th May 2016 5:53 am
BTW Boat…
“mak, Why why why do you lie lie lie.”
Boat why are you so stupid, stupid, stupid? LMAO
Davy on Sat, 7th May 2016 6:13 am
If American food exports stops the global world starves. It is that simple. Dumbass anti-Americans want to make this an agenda issue but it is a life or death issue. Just like oil you cannot remove a source of oil or food that is a major component without collapse. Get that? Humans got to this point through industrialization of our food system which is getting close to being complete because although there is much subsistence farming and permaculture farming it pales in comparisons to the volumes of industrial agriculture production. The populations are so large now there is no turning back without large loss of life.
Subsistence farmers have the backup and support of this industrial system of food production. IOW if their crop fails they still will have access to food in most cases and they have options for their growing efforts which are available on the market. Much of the rest of their life is part of their global system like their cloths and utensils. There are romanticist here who think when the collapse comes these poor farms have a better chance which is bunk. Their chance will be dictated by the same risk variables other have and that is location. If you are in the wrong location you will be at greater risk. Skills to grow things is important but that is of little use if their land is overrun by desperate migrants. Every local now has been delocalized to some degree and or is at risk for the decay and destruction of the global system even if they are off the grid and isolated.
The US is the most important agricultural exporter and closely followed by Brazil. US imports are significant but mainly specialty food items that are not required for our food needs. They are imported because they are discretionary and the US is a rich country. Increasingly as the food chain is compressed and destabilized food will be like oil. The US will have an important asset in a declining world. Asia and Africa will be hard pressed to feed their teeming masses. The US, Russia, Europe, and South America will feed their populations in the beginning of this collapse process. The die off will likely start and build in Asia and Africa.
Apneaman on Sat, 7th May 2016 6:35 am
Canadians will starve because they don’t grow any major crops up there or know anything about that fancy modern agriculture (like inventing Canola) Stupid fucks. Although the 30% terrorist anti american radical blood thirsty evil doer Canadian stealth army won’t starve because of the planned invasion of the US. Everyone knows that it will happen. There’s been studies N stuff done by top men.
onlooker on Sat, 7th May 2016 6:36 am
Here is where I agree with Davy. I try to be fair and balanced. I see vulnerabilities in the US especially related to social cohesion ,the health care system and the close relation between its food and oil. However, Davy is right that Asia and Africa and even Europe are highly overpopulated relative to resources in particular food. The Grains are the staple of so many people around the world. Cut them off from that and their caloric intake is reduced to dangerous levels. US and to a lesser degree a few other countries are the exporters of grains that the world needs. So you cannot isolate yourself in a place like Asia, the teeming masses will overrun any locality that produces food. Also, it is widely accepted that a Pandemic would probably originate in Asia because of its huge population that malnourished can be efficient incubators of disease and also its close ties to certain animals. Finally water shortages now are a grave threat to Asia. To a lesser degree they are a threat in most places.
Dredd on Sat, 7th May 2016 6:40 am
Hmmm, why did they neglect to mention the number one danger according to the military and scientists (Global Climate & Homeland Insecurity – 2) ?
Typically it is because Oil-Qaeda funds these types of distractions.
Apneaman on Sat, 7th May 2016 6:47 am
The Great Plains’ Looming Water Crisis
Depletion of a giant aquifer threatens vital U.S. farmland
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-02/great-plains-water-crisis-aquifer-s-depletion-threatens-farmland
Pumped beyond limits, many U.S. aquifers in decline
NATIONWIDE ANALYSIS SHOWS DEPLETION OF GROUNDWATER WIDESPREAD AND WORSENING
http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2015/12/10/pumped-beyond-limits-many-us-aquifers-decline/76570380/
Pumped beyond limits – reminds me of a girl I once knew.
onlooker on Sat, 7th May 2016 7:00 am
Pumped beyond limits – reminds me of a girl I once knew.– hehehe
Oh and I did say water shortages are a threat in most places.
Davy on Sat, 7th May 2016 7:02 am
“Alberta Fires Set to Double as Companies Declare Force Majeure”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-06/alberta-wildfire-keeps-growing-as-evacuee-convoy-rolls-to-safety
“Wildfires ravaging the center of Canada’s oil patch in northern Alberta and leading more than 80,000 to flee are set to double in size over the weekend. Suncor Energy Inc., Phillips 66 and Statoil ASA declared force majeure on supplies from the region.”
“There is “high potential” that the fire could double in size to 2,000 square kilometers (770 square miles), Chad Morrison, a senior wildfire manager for the Alberta government, said. That’s more than twice the area of New York city. Firefighters were on the defensive, striving to protect the communities of Gregoire Lake, Anzac and Fort McMurray First Nation. The ferocity of the fire was unprecedented, Morrison said.”
“This is an extreme, rare fire event, that is something that is historic for us,” Morrison said earlier at a press conference in Edmonton, flanked by Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and a brigadier general from Canada’s military. “There is no amount of resources we are going to be able to put on this fire that can hold it.”
“Disruptions to oil production, the lifeblood of Alberta’s economy, add to a human catastrophe as blazes razed entire neighborhoods in Fort McMurray, the gateway to the world’s third-largest crude reserves. Police and military officials were working to evacuate the remaining 10,000 residents who had gone north to work camps now considered unsafe.”
JuanP on Sat, 7th May 2016 8:03 am
I have more than a decade’s worth of long shelf life food in storage at three different locations. I grow much of what I eat. I know how to grow even more.
The USA is being destroyed by Americans themselves. I have been a witness of the speeding decline of the USA for more than a quarter of a century. I have absolutely no doubt that Americans will completely destroy the USA, it is only a matter of how long it will take for them to reach the bottom. I expect the process to take decades, but every decade will be much worse than the one before.
makati1 on Sat, 7th May 2016 8:22 am
JuanP, the destruction of America has been happening at least since the 70s. That is when fiat took over and debt became the god of Americans. I don’t give them decades. If it doesn’t happen in this one, I will be surprised. We shall see.
Davy on Sat, 7th May 2016 8:37 am
The world is destroying itself through overpopulation and overconsumption. If you look at the global world North America, Russia, and South America are well placed for the beginning of this process. This is the horrible truth the anti-Americans loath. Each day they wake up their agenda is in worse shape. The US is coming apart but at a slower pace than the rest of the world. I pity anti-Americans for their inability to face reality. Everyone wants things to happen their way but nature rules.
Davy on Sat, 7th May 2016 8:40 am
I have plenty of food both living and stored. I have tools and skills. I am well placed to face the beginnings of what is coming.
I am glad I don’t live somewhere like the Philippines or south Florida. Both are facing the worst of climate change and have little hope for a successful outcome. Both are overpopulated and both are destroying their ecosystem.
Cloud9 on Sat, 7th May 2016 9:07 am
I fall back on the Congressional report on EMP which suggests that the United States would lose 90% of its population within the first year of grid collapse. In a world of collapsed supply chains, the die off will be by this estimation horrific and rapid. I suspect that there will be a number of regions in fly over country that will survive the die off largely unscathed. Urban populations are incredibly vulnerable. Even there, there will be some areas where groups band together and make it through. There will be roving bands of cannibals. Plan accordingly.
Boat on Sat, 7th May 2016 11:39 am
I will add that to my to do list. Prepare for roving bands of cannibals.
GregT on Sat, 7th May 2016 11:53 am
“I will add that to my to do list. Prepare for roving bands of cannibals.”
It would probably be smarter to move somewhere else. Where you are right now would require a huge amount of ammunition.
onlooker on Sat, 7th May 2016 12:08 pm
You mean the same cannibals who are right now complete retards. haha.
Anonymous on Sat, 7th May 2016 1:06 pm
It would appear only locations where exceptionalists reside are safe and sustainable, unlike places like South Florida, or the Philipines, are both overpopulated and destroying their eco-systems. And by strange co-incidence, happen to be places where posters certain exceptionalists have taken a dislike too.
Well ain’t that handy. The looming crisis will wipe out all the places that posters with ‘bad’ attitudes reside, leaving only americant exceptionalist(with much better attitudes) riding high and dry. Because you know, americccca is a model of under-population and prudent eco-system management….
Anonymous on Sat, 7th May 2016 1:09 pm
Sorry, where posters reside that certain…
Damn lack of edit functionality….
Cloud9 on Sat, 7th May 2016 3:32 pm
There is one aspect about this die off though horrific may give those that manage to bypass it an advantage. It seems from the Congressional study it will be rapid. Many of the infirmed will die of thirst. Many more will die of hunger. Thirst killed a million Armenians when they were marched into the desert in a few days. Famine killed millions of Kulaks in a few weeks when the Reds decided Redneck Russians would not make good communists. This means that the Golden Horde will sort itself out rather rapidly when supply chains fail. So the numbers faced by communities in the hinterlands may not be as massive as many have imagined.
On the darker side of this event are the back stories of cannibalism that coincide with famine. Years ago I read an assertion somewhere that alleged that one out of a thousand would turn to cannibalism if faced with starvation. This is touched on by dystopic works like One Second After, The Book of Eli and The Road. In such an event, the vast majority will be about as dangerous as Auschwitz inmates when they were liberated by the Russians. Within that group will be a much smaller group of lean, fit well fed predators. Those are the ones we need to shoot as soon as they appear.
penury on Sat, 7th May 2016 3:50 pm
I do not assign a number to this because it is a combination of too many items. Lack of education among the majority of the population. The in-ability to communicate with other sentient beings except by device. The inability to concentrate for greater than 3 minutes. The neccessity of placing everything you need to remember in the cloud. Followed by a Lithium shortage.
Davy on Sat, 7th May 2016 3:51 pm
Anonymous, you are such a weenie. I have no problem with either place. I have problems with people like you and your buddies with the asshole anti-American agenda. Collapse is place dependent more than any other variable. South Florida is a bad place to be period. The Philippines is a big place with a diversity of locals but it is still overpopulated. Missouri has many issues to deal with but it has 1/16th the population of the P’s with 1/3rd the land area. Do the math dummy.
You might want to ponder your Canada anonymous. You guys are deep in a doo doo situation now. You can’t stand it I bet. Your dumbass lives and breaths the destruction of the US and look at what is happening in Canada.
JuanP on Sat, 7th May 2016 3:55 pm
It seems Davy is really proud to live in inbred land! LOL! Birds of a feather flock together! You are right where you belong, Davy.
JuanP on Sat, 7th May 2016 4:02 pm
My country is better off than the USA today, Davy, it has been for decades, and will be much better in the future, too. You can’t see it because you are an inbred delusional American exceptionalist that still believes the BS propaganda lies that tell the US sheeple that the USA is the greatest country in the world. If you still fall for that silly crap, you must be unbelievably fucked up inside your head. But then again, you are a coward who can’t face the truth, so who cares? I just love fucking with your sick mind, goat fucker! LOL!
peakyeast on Sat, 7th May 2016 4:13 pm
I find apneamans tone very refreshing. Its so boring with all that politically correctness and all that childish problems with “bad words”.
Penn & Teller had a nice episode about it called “Profanity” in their famous “Bullshit” show.
I couldnt find a youtube link to the full episode and I dont dare use all sorts of vudu or whatever sites.
peakyeast on Sat, 7th May 2016 4:15 pm
Please dear god (that probably doesnt exist and if he does is a vengeful evil doublecrossing motherfucker) provide me with an edit button on po.com.
Davy on Sat, 7th May 2016 5:35 pm
Juan, if your country is so good please leave mine. I don’t want an ungrateful extremist resident alien sucking off our wealth.
I agree Juan your country is likely a better refuge from a collapse. I never said otherwise. I also mentioned my state has many issues. The problem with extremist psychopaths like you is you idiots only hear and see what filters through your agenda.
Go home Juan.