3kilos wrote:
yep were all going to be screewed befor the next 10 yrs are out my advice would be to learn a few survival skills so in case u have to run for the hills at least u can live out there
I agree with you to an extent; but I don’t think the entire world will actually be destroyed – it would be a similar situation to world war II where there was only limited use of nuclear weaponry – but given the current theatres of war the ultimate result may be a paradox where the war destroys and contaminates the area and resources which were being fought over.. (i.e the Middle Eastern oil fields).
The result probably wouldn’t be global Armageddon; but a perhaps permanent regression of international relations – hardly surprising as East and West would be separated by a contaminated “no-mans land…”
conventional trade routes between the West and China/India would be blocked by contamination (plus these nations would be extremely angry at the fallout cloud, and demand reparations) – or the trade routes would reform through a “New Soviet Bloc”…. I expect the USSR would re-form with the help of CN and IN as this area would now control a lot of the Worlds resources but there would be more “anti-Western” feeling.
There would undoubtedly be a global economic recession as a result of all this; and perhaps civil disturbances in a number of countries as people in multicultural communities blamed each other.
I expect the “survival skills” may be more a manner of being able to re-use and recycle existing materials, practical construction/engineering skills and perhaps being able to live without “luxuries” as international trade/travel/communications would be curtailed.
(nukes fuck up satellite communications by electromagnetic pulses – goodbye internet or at least easy cheap comms outside the EU.)
A world conflict of this nature with a limited nuclear exchange has the potential to knock Britain back to the 1950s/60s but not destroy it altogether…and Government/bureaucracy will not just endure (government plans every day for Doomsday) but become stronger in the post war regeneration period (the 1950s were the beginning of the British “nanny state”)
I have this nasty feeling that there are people in power and particularly Middle Englanders who are prepared to take this risk, and it would give nationalists a lot of what they actually wanted…
OTOH for many people though it may feel like it wasn’t worth surviving.
