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What it really comes down to is that with or without this info you most likely live your life mostly the same until a catastrophe strikes. When it does you’re

What it really comes down to is that with or without this info you most likely live your life mostly the same until a catastrophe strikes. When it does you’re either dead or need to make a new life. Now based on your saying, are you going to really off yourself voluntarily, or will you make the best of a bad situation? And if you are going to make the best of it, it would’ve been real nice to study about what supplies to have prepared and what you’re going to do now, rather than go blind, and without the internet resources to help you anymore.

jmnicolas 5y ago
Either you take a massive dose of radioactivity (nuclear war means several nukes) and suffer horribly 'till death or you starve because nuclear winter. I have read about it a long time ago so don't quote me on this, but a nuclear winter is supposed to last at least 5 years. Do you have the financial means and space to store that much food and rotate it regularly? I don't and frankly I'd rather not bother. Once nuclear winter is over, do you know how to grow your own food? You might not be able to hunt because all animals will either be dead or killed by other hunters. This scenario is very very hard to overcome. Not impossible, but only a few very prepared and or very lucky individuals would survive.
- reducesuffering 5y ago
  You're overestimating the cost to store years of food (dense portions of dried beans, rice, chocolate, liquor, etc; rough estimate $120 / twelve 20-lb bags of rice per person per year) and the basic educational precautions that can mean a world of quality of life; the kind of precautions you won't be able to educate yourself on if something does happen, you'll have to rely on previous gathered knowledge. Things like how to best shelter at impact and prevent exposure to radioactivity after the fact.

jmnicolas 5y ago

Either you take a massive dose of radioactivity (nuclear war means several nukes) and suffer horribly 'till death or you starve because nuclear winter. I have read about it a long time ago so don't quote me on this, but a nuclear winter is supposed to last at least 5 years. Do you have the financial means and space to store that much food and rotate it regularly? I don't and frankly I'd rather not bother. Once nuclear winter is over, do you know how to grow your own food? You might not be able to hunt because all animals will either be dead or killed by other hunters. This scenario is very very hard to overcome. Not impossible, but only a few very prepared and or very lucky individuals would survive.

reducesuffering 5y ago
You're overestimating the cost to store years of food (dense portions of dried beans, rice, chocolate, liquor, etc; rough estimate $120 / twelve 20-lb bags of rice per person per year) and the basic educational precautions that can mean a world of quality of life; the kind of precautions you won't be able to educate yourself on if something does happen, you'll have to rely on previous gathered knowledge. Things like how to best shelter at impact and prevent exposure to radioactivity after the fact.