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Dead_Parrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-15-09 03:35 AM
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5. also "The Death of Grass"
I think it's "No Blade of Grass" in the US: ISBN 0140013008
A "fuck, no food" book with the ensuing mayhem. Might give a few things to think about (like, would you slaughter a family for a loaf of bread?)
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  -Pessimism / fall-back position? Meeker Morgan  Nov-14-09 09:18 PM   #0 
  - An assault rifle, a pallet of ammo, and a remote cabin in the woods  NickB79   Nov-14-09 09:24 PM   #1 
  - That's my contingency plan in a nutshell  XemaSab   Nov-14-09 10:19 PM   #2 
  - If you haven't read it, read The Road  malakai2   Nov-14-09 11:17 PM   #3 
  - also "The Death of Grass"  Dead_Parrot   Nov-15-09 03:35 AM   #5 
  - The Road was good but certainly not a "manual" for survival  Javaman   Nov-16-09 08:55 AM   #13 
     - Oh, no  malakai2   Nov-17-09 08:08 PM   #31 
  - Most of us wouldn't know how to cook a moose  pscot   Nov-16-09 12:57 PM   #18 
  - Move to a small country in the South Pacific....  Dead_Parrot   Nov-15-09 03:24 AM   #4 
  - Ha-bloody-ha!  Nihil   Nov-16-09 06:01 AM   #11 
  - Oh, I'm pretty sure everything will catch up with us eventually  Dead_Parrot   Nov-16-09 02:58 PM   #20 
  - South Pacific? sorry but the majority of those area's have a very low sea level.  Javaman   Nov-16-09 09:15 AM   #17 
  - I don't see why society would necessarily break down  Meeker Morgan   Nov-15-09 06:01 AM   #6 
  - Depends on your timescale.  Dead_Parrot   Nov-15-09 06:13 AM   #7 
  - 3 days to a week.  Javaman   Nov-16-09 09:07 AM   #15 
  - The problem is the level of interdependancy  Dead_Parrot   Nov-16-09 03:27 PM   #21 
     - You bring up some very good points.  Javaman   Nov-16-09 04:18 PM   #23 
  - When the British Empire desolved,  amandabeech   Nov-17-09 11:44 AM   #24 
     - But the empire was mainly a political construct  Dead_Parrot   Nov-17-09 03:11 PM   #29 
        - The U.S. potentially is a political construct.  amandabeech   Nov-17-09 06:20 PM   #30 
  - One word - Katrina  hatrack   Nov-16-09 08:38 AM   #12 
  - It will be a long emergency. when oil production can no longer meet demand...  Javaman   Nov-16-09 08:59 AM   #14 
  - I think a model for the not-too-distant future  pscot   Nov-16-09 01:00 PM   #19 
  - Contingency plans? Minimizing the damage? I don't understand your words.  GliderGuider   Nov-15-09 08:50 AM   #8 
  - This is what I mean by minimizing the damage  Meeker Morgan   Nov-15-09 09:43 AM   #9 
  - Yes, there are lots of ways of minimizing the knock-on damage to people.  GliderGuider   Nov-15-09 11:00 AM   #10 
     - Exactly. One of the first feelings people experience during an emergency  Javaman   Nov-16-09 09:12 AM   #16 
  - Cassandra didn't get treated very well..  Fumesucker   Nov-16-09 03:59 PM   #22 
  - This thread is full of crazy talk  Nederland   Nov-17-09 11:58 AM   #25 
  - The unspoken subtext of this thread  GliderGuider   Nov-17-09 12:42 PM   #26 
     - Nicely put.  NickB79   Nov-17-09 12:52 PM   #27 
     - Pessimists are usually wrong  Nederland   Nov-17-09 02:44 PM   #28 
        - Optimists aren't batting 1.000 either  malakai2   Nov-17-09 10:53 PM   # 
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