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Message Subject When SHTF what material item will you miss the most?
Poster Handle Anonymous Coward
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All good points.

However, if the power grid ever goes down for more than a few weeks, these things won't matter.

Nukular power stations melt down and go Fukushima on our collective asses if not fed by grid power for nuclear reactor and spent fuel cooling.

That fact alone makes this whole thread an exercise in mental masturbation.

Did you know that if The Walking Dead was set in real life and if zombies were real, all human survivors in the USA would have been dead by the time of the Season 1 finale? No grid power = the end of human life in areas with nuclear power stations.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 17344595

I agree, if the grid completely goes down, then all of the folks living directly near nuclear power plants will likely die. Think Chernobyl times the number of plants. Then think of the radioactive isotopes entering the food chain so it's very grim and I doubt many will survive.

BUT, in the history of civilization, even with the Black Death, Hiroshima, and the great Ice Age, humanity still came back. I think it's a huge mistake to think in terms of an unsurvivable SHTF event when in fact humanity has a knack of surviving even with massive nuclear mutations and poisoning.

If it's mental masturbation, then I'd recommend you not read my link if it irritates you that much. Rather than insult you, I'd hope that you could learn a little some pioneer wisdom from reading that link. It contains practical advice for NOW and also for LATER.

The SHTF is not necessarily an Extinction Level Event, but might certainly be a massive collapse of order from something as simple as worldwide economic chaos like the Great Depression. It could be like the 1918 Pandemic Influenza event. It could be like a complete rejection of the petrodollar. It could be a Carrington Event that ruins the grid in one or more countries. It need not kill all of humanity.

Despite the enormous poisoning from Fukushima, we didn't see mass death but we are definitely measuring humongous levels of radioactive isotopes in the food chain. It will eventually cause a lot of death from Cancer and depressing the immune system. It will concentrate in wildlife.

Surprisingly enough, Nature finds a way. Go to Chernobyl today and you won't find a dead zone but a vast increase in wildlife who adapted and were strong enough to breed. Can humans go there. NOPE, but some of the animals are making it.

Find a way to be more positive to adapt to the slow collapse that is happening economically. There are lots of terrible signs of ecological disaster and from the folly of humanity, but still we all must cope as best we can. It's that, or dig a hole to crawl into to die. Personally I'd rather find a reason to live and to share practical life skills.

Don'tBeAfraid
 
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