Where Most Prepping Falls Short:

[Devonian]

(1 December 2014, 16:30)bigpaul Wrote: without their technology, global delivery systems and main services its not going to be 65 million people it will be a fraction of this.

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without all that lovely cheap food being imported from the other side of the world we cannot even hope to feed 65 million people, given the acreage available in this country(which becomes less and less each year) we can only feed 25% of the current population, maybe 16-20 million at the very most. the only reason we can feed so many now is that we are taking the surplus from other less well of countries in exchange for cold hard cash.

But this is and always will be a huge unknown, none of us really know what will happen (if) and I do mean if such a wide scale event were to ever happen.

Despite what many of us believe, there is no evidence throughout history, in any country (that I am aware of) to support such die off theories. But I'd be interested to see any 'evidence' of mass die offs....

As I mentioned yesterday, if you take the famine in the early 1980's in Ethiopia as an example of a truly devastating SHTF type event, then at the time the population of Ethiopia was around 36Million (it is now over 90Million) but as devastating as the famine was, only about 400K people died as a result, so that was a die off rate of around just 1%, no where near a 90% die off.

And the problem with feeding ourselves at the moment is more to do with the type of foods we eat. If the land was turned over to grains; potatoes; turnips/swede; cabbage; spinach etc, then we would be able to feed ourselves......