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June 19, 2008 at 6:20 pm #1174662
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    MrAHC;223246 wrote:
    hopefully society as we know it will have broken down enough by then. but we will still have surplus people. then they will have to realise they will have to pull there fingers out in order to survive, but they wont have the skills like 90% of current society.

    depends which society you mean

    I think the rural / suburban middle englanders especially those with any sort of outdoors skills or proper engineering will actually survive and even thrive because they or their older relatives have lived through those times before

    i.e the granny lady who looks after her garden or the old boy who does his own metalwork and electronics as well as knowing about computers.

    They also have the organisational skills to run local communities and to work with the traditional authority structures like the police and military who will protect them from those trying to steal their resources without contributing

    also those genuinely living low-impact/sustainable lifestyles will survive so parts of Britain won’t end up like some disaster movie but more like in the 1950s again..

    I think a lot of the surplus people will end up just eliminating themselves – some will just give up trying to live…

    its going to hit many of the younger people harder than the older people. I think a fair few of our age group and many of the middle aged people are adjusting really well TBH, such as how I noticed loads of people aged 40 or so on bicycles recently – not a club run but going to and from work, and their bikes were obviously the ones they had kept from the 1980s (I know my bikes :wink:)

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    i remember a lass & her fella coming onto a site after a festival and holding a cigarete lighter under 3 large logs trying to light a fire much to everyone on sites amusement. she then asked where the toilets were and was handed a spade. it took her 5 mins to come to suss out what it was for then she just looked like she was in shock…

    that was the “good old days”. today a lot of people would just use petrol and light half the forest on fire by accident or just shit in the woods and bring things on top for a short term event like a rave or if it were a long term space they’d contaminate the area..