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19 April 2013, 11:03
A lot is based around ifs and buts as is the nature of such a variety of preps, 'if' social and or economic collapse is the catalyst then yes many will die but would like to see where the 90% world or uk dead comes from?
In any case there will still be around 7 million people left on this island as the remaining ten percent.
The original 63 million inhabitants will likely have the same idea... "Let's get to the country as out of the way as possible" and make their way first to small villages on the maps and dispersing from there into the country spreading the entire journey with them diseas and pestilence as sanitation becomes an issue and lack there of. Until finally you begin to get bodies piling up in the once picturesque market towns and rolling hillsides, people become more desperate and disponadant of their situation, the death rate climbs faster due to disintary cholera and lots of other nasties due to contaminated water, they turn on other groups and actively seek them in those once thought safe havens in the country looking for smoke, evidence of vehicles, wood collection so on etc etc until found, killed pillaged and rested ready to move on to the next.
The quickest way to fall victim to groups is to go it alone, there will always be an exception to the rules like BP who may never leave a trace and outwit or outmatch any potential pirate in the countryside.
The entire history of the human race can be used to show that groups are key to survival.
I understand the stance some people take that they do not care about the human race and some may not even wish its continuation (I felt this way after they cancelled firefly but got over it) but a militia, already described as a small trained unit of men and not a national army, to protect crops and the women and children we wish not to be raped or killed by people outside or inside the group is, again, key to survival. Laws and governance become that of a marshal law, no courts and no jury would be feasible as no due process could be achieved.
Of course there will be militia that are corrupt and make it up as they go but they will inevitably disband or be imalgimated into a democratic militia. Due process of the law can start to be inacted courts and correctional facilities manned as well as utilities and sanitation, in no small part and I would say more or less completely down to having a structured, trained militia from the start who in turn help to found a new government.
Of course I shal be the leader and make every town and street name begin with Jack and reinstitute old laws allowing me to get first dibs on newly weds first nights.
First born sons shal be named Jack and our new national religion shal be Jedi.
In any case there will still be around 7 million people left on this island as the remaining ten percent.
The original 63 million inhabitants will likely have the same idea... "Let's get to the country as out of the way as possible" and make their way first to small villages on the maps and dispersing from there into the country spreading the entire journey with them diseas and pestilence as sanitation becomes an issue and lack there of. Until finally you begin to get bodies piling up in the once picturesque market towns and rolling hillsides, people become more desperate and disponadant of their situation, the death rate climbs faster due to disintary cholera and lots of other nasties due to contaminated water, they turn on other groups and actively seek them in those once thought safe havens in the country looking for smoke, evidence of vehicles, wood collection so on etc etc until found, killed pillaged and rested ready to move on to the next.
The quickest way to fall victim to groups is to go it alone, there will always be an exception to the rules like BP who may never leave a trace and outwit or outmatch any potential pirate in the countryside.
The entire history of the human race can be used to show that groups are key to survival.
I understand the stance some people take that they do not care about the human race and some may not even wish its continuation (I felt this way after they cancelled firefly but got over it) but a militia, already described as a small trained unit of men and not a national army, to protect crops and the women and children we wish not to be raped or killed by people outside or inside the group is, again, key to survival. Laws and governance become that of a marshal law, no courts and no jury would be feasible as no due process could be achieved.
Of course there will be militia that are corrupt and make it up as they go but they will inevitably disband or be imalgimated into a democratic militia. Due process of the law can start to be inacted courts and correctional facilities manned as well as utilities and sanitation, in no small part and I would say more or less completely down to having a structured, trained militia from the start who in turn help to found a new government.
Of course I shal be the leader and make every town and street name begin with Jack and reinstitute old laws allowing me to get first dibs on newly weds first nights.
First born sons shal be named Jack and our new national religion shal be Jedi.
It is my belief that to be prepared information must be deseminated and distributed as quickly as possible to those that have the ability to teach and deliver those lessons they learn
Those that can not teach must be taught to act that can not act must be protected that would mock ignore and harm be addressed.
Those that can not teach must be taught to act that can not act must be protected that would mock ignore and harm be addressed.