lets get real.....

[bigpaul]

the trouble is that humans are no longer(for the most part...I think SS might disagree) "jacks of all trades" we (humans) have become specialists and rely on others to do what we cannot, there is a huge amount of "get someone in", we also rely to a huge degree on importing stuff from all over the world, these things then can break down and you have a "pack of cards balanced on a knife edge" sort of situation, we are no longer "self reliant" as a nation and probably haven't since before the first world war, technology is good but we are putting all our eggs in one basket by relying on it so heavily. with the human population expanded so much every system is stretched to its very limit, take the NHS,water and sewage systems, food delivery etc etc, all this is very much like an elastic band, it will only stretch so far and then it will break. so yes, I do feel there is a calamity coming, it is real, and its more real now that at any time in our past.