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>If you live in a city, and the machines disappear, or the economy collapses, you will starve to death, unless someone kills you first. This is hyperbolic. Ple
by jobs_throwaway 4y ago
>If you live in a city, and the machines disappear, or the economy collapses, you will starve to death, unless someone kills you first.
This is hyperbolic. Plenty of economies have collapsed without everyone starving to death or being murdered. Will it be pretty? No, but not as hopeless as you're making it out to be.
- TeMPOraL 4y ago> Plenty of economies have collapsed without everyone starving to death or being murdered. Not in the last 50 years, not at the scale I'm talking about. Not to the point food stops being made, stored or transported, and there is no "outside" (such as international aid) to help. Closest to that would be warn-torn zones, where people in fact do starve and die. There's hardly any hyperbole here. With the entire food sector operating just-in-time, at any given moment a modern city has enough food to last a week or two, and that's with refrigeration running. In case of global economic collapse or even global power outage, that's all you'll get in the city. There will be no more food coming after that.
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y agoYou'll last longer without food, than without water. Where I live, there are no (working) watertowers anymore. It's all pressure by pumps. I'd hope they survive, but am not so sure. Where would their electricity come from in such a situation? The fuel for the emergency generators? (Do they even have them? Again, not so sure.) How long would they even last when running 24/7? I wouldn't want to drink any unfiltered water here. At least not without some filtering "straw", Katadyn, or something similar. And they don't last long either. So you need packs of those, or at least their filters.