SHEEPLE!!!

[Scythe13]

(14 October 2013, 17:18)bigpaul Wrote: No, not shrivel up and die, but a lot will not be able to cope without the internet/mobile phone etc, I think they will just go crazy and I mean C R A Z Y!! most people have never had to live without electricity, street lights or flushing toilets...they just wont be able to handle it.

To be fair mate, the crazy things me and my wife have been though, many people ask us "How do you cope?" The simple response is "You just have to get on with it." That's the same that many many people will see. I think even a suicide rate of 10% is vastly over exaggerating the odds. More like 3% or 4%. The thing is, as humans, we are the same, genetically, as before all this modern technology. Granted our outlook on life has changed, but the core of every person is the same as their great grandparents.

I'm working on a figure of a 20% die off, at most. that way, if the die off is larger, life will be easier. If the die off is as expected, then we're ready for that.

Where did I get this number from? I plucked it from thin air. No joke. There is no reason to believe a 5% die off is any more likely than a 50% die off.

Even though BP has quoted the UK can feed 16million people, that's using boring basic farming. Add in Aquaponics and the alike, and you can feed over 20 times that number. A person can be fed, quite well, year round, on a little over a tennis court area of land. The only thing they cannot get from that land, grains, which you technically don't need...but are great for B vitamins.

The truth is, we have no idea how many will die off. Working on a large figure could well lead to being grossly underprepared for the numbers of people around after the first year of life post SHTF.

People are a threat, and they are first and foremost, animals. Animals have an INNATE will to survive. FEW will commit suicide early on. Numbers along 1 in 20 or 1 in 25 are still pretty high, in my opinion.