(17 July 2023, 11:11)bigpaul Wrote: the surviving population in the UK after a major catastrophe is likely to be less than 10% of what it is now, more likely to be less than 5% because 99% of the people alive in Britain today have not even the slightest glimmer of how to look after themselves once all the services and resources are no longer available, so we are looking at maybe 6 million tops, 3 million maybe , probably even less, especially once all the normal food supplies are used up, no piped water- how many people know you have to filter any water? hygiene will go out the window, nasty diseases like Typhoid and Cholera and Dysentry always reappear after any major collapse of infrastructure.
forget the modern world, whatever that is, welcome to the new world.
I can't argue with that. If all you cut off the UK from international food trade, we'd soon be starving. If you then reduce energy for farms, the output drops by well over 50%. Take away modern fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides, and the food outputs drops massively again. If half your land is so contaminated that you cannot grow crops, it then massively drops again. Add in the effect of a nuclear winter ... even a mild one, and even if you escape the UK, you'll end up in some foreign land, where the locals are going to put feeding you last in the long list of their own priorities ... and western money ... it will be good for is kindling for fire,
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