Interesting Times: The Long Emergency is Beginning

[liveonearth]

In LA so many people have lost their homes that they are setting up tent cities and living in mobile homes. They have nowhere to go. This is just the beginning. Imagine the large populations of America's cities without food, jobs, homes or hope, but with diseases and guns. Here it comes. And as my classmate Conan pointed out, it's the BBC reporting on it: you won't find mention of this in the US media. They're trying to keep it mum.

Comments

[neptunia67.livejournal.com]

Yep, and most of those city folk wouldn't know where to start if they had to survive. I expect, if things get as bad as you predict, that a lot of people will die simply because they have no survival skills.

[liveonearth.livejournal.com]

I think you have reached the crux of it. In a couple of short generations we have gone from being farmers, fishermen and hunters to being service personnel, administrators, programmers and such. You are one of the few who still knows how to butcher a pig. I hope to be one of the few who still knows how to heal using herbs. Those who have useful skills and position themselves to be of service will survive. Those who persist in believing that the system will save them are doomed. IMO.