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talkpoliticsThe best places to survive a global societal collapse have been ranked by scientists in a new study.
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This piece of news, courtesy of the highly reputable scientific outlet The Sun.
New Zealand came out on top, followed by Iceland, the island state of Tasmania in Australia, Ireland and the UK.
Is it just me, or the most reliable doomsday sanctuaries are places with more sheep than people??
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This piece of news, courtesy of the highly reputable scientific outlet The Sun.
New Zealand came out on top, followed by Iceland, the island state of Tasmania in Australia, Ireland and the UK.
Is it just me, or the most reliable doomsday sanctuaries are places with more sheep than people??
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Date: 7/8/21 20:50 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 8/8/21 14:38 (UTC)But yeah, this is very unfortunate and students are going to have to learn about it.
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Date: 9/8/21 08:54 (UTC)"more sheep than people"?
Date: 14/8/21 23:58 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 18/8/21 21:03 (UTC)I'm sure you're aware that Iceland is extremely reliant on industrial-scale shipping to bring in everything from fuel to light bulbs to nails. New Zealand to a similar, but lesser, degree.
Sure, go to Iceland to weather the apocalypse. And remain there for the rest of your life as the airlines and ports shut down, and no one in the rest of the wold bothers to restart them because tourism and banking are both extinct.
Also, that life will not be very comfortable, and probably not very long. Reykjavik will have to depopulate, after a brief period when the trucks burn through their fuel reserves, and then almost all of those people will starve, chasing sheep around the highlands. Geothermal heat is great, when you've got time to spend indoors. Not any more. Back to intensive farming, for everyone, as you all at least give a solid try at producing a years' worth of food in weak sunlight and thoroughly eroded soil. It will take a miracle for the sheep and goats to breed fast enough. The cattle are too hard on the land, but that won't stop you from trying...
Then the remnants of humanity can go back to cutting grass with horses, and watch as first-world comfort folds in on itself. It'll all be truly over when a water pump fails in a storm one too many times and they suddenly realize they've run entirely out of bolts, and there is nothing anywhere on the island capable of generating temperature hot enough to reforge steel.
Oh, and the Vikings already cut down all the trees large enough to build longboats.
Perhaps the moss is edible?
Frankly, in terms of short and long-term survival, my money's on Texas. They have their own long-term supply of fertilizer and fuel, the panhandle is extremely productive in terms of crops and cattle, their infrastructure is not nearly as abused by the weather as elsewhere, and they are armed to the teeth.