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Question 7
With the assorted improvements in technology and obviousness of the impending end. How well prepared were those who planned for the end?
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A fair number of people in the developed world
thought they'd prepared, but it turned out that even the most hardcore "preppers" who dreamed of becoming big fish in the much smaller post-apocalyptic pond -- and reshaping society in keeping with their frequently-delusional ideologies -- had failed to take into consideration any number of survival realities.
The true fools laid in lots of guns and ammunition, but failed to consider that every human being who needs to live in a harsh, labor-intensive environment requires about 1.8
million calories per year in mixed vitamins, proteins and carbohydrates, as well as
at least 300 gallons of clean, potable water for drinking, alone.
Most backyard bunkers lasted less than six months, and even remote settlements in isolated parts of the developed world soon understood that industrial-scale farming requires an industrial infrastructure to provide medicine, fuel, other chemicals, lubricants, tires and spare parts.
Moreover, a lot of the preppers fantasized about the end of the world
because they lacked the education, self-discipline and emotional maturity to prosper in the modern world, and they carried those flaws with them as the collapse began.
In fact, many preppers hastened the collapse because they turned into raiders, as they realized they'd utterly failed to take into consideration the need for cooperative effort in planting a crop, bringing it to harvest and protecting the gains from people such as themselves.
Question 10: Given that so many so-called "preppers" failed so pathetically, what unexpected group managed to achieve reasonable self-sufficiency as civil society crumbled?
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