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I'm not sure how one would get enough food to live if the world's breadbaskets have collapsed due to excessive rain/drought. I guess one could get enough land t
by JackMorgan 3y ago
I'm not sure how one would get enough food to live if the world's breadbaskets have collapsed due to excessive rain/drought. I guess one could get enough land to try to subsistence farm and hope none of the hundred million starving New Yorkers decide to steal your food while you sleep. I'm not particularly bullish on that strategy.
At this point I'm legitimately resigned to just dying in the food riots. There doesn't seem to be a way to clever my way out of this one. If I'm in the right place at the right time, maybe I'll die of old age. Otherwise, I'll die in middle age. My grandfathers only lived to their mid-fifties, so it wouldn't even be that unusual.
Too many unknowns, embracing prepping and farming just seems like a cope when no one even knows what exactly the situation will be. Maybe food is plentiful but it's raining so hard in VT that roads get washed out and trucks can't get to your area.
It just feels like anywhere near a major city is likely to have either a few hundred thousand starving people roving the countryside or nuclear fallout on the wind. VT is close to Boston and Montreal.
Even a military compound could easily be overrun with enough hungry people. There's only so many bullets when people are frantic and hungry. So it's not like I'm going to be successful hiring armed guards and putting up barbed wire.
One could try to live on a sailboat, but open sea piracy is real, and it'll be very hard to fish when the oceans are dead from acidification.
If the food supply is disrupted due to weather, it'll be a very small number of people even in the US who survive. Societal unrest will likely kill more than actual starvation.