Hello - Russ is right - until it hits people's daily norms they will ignore the problem.
The trouble is, especially in the UK, the population is far too high for people to be able to do something about it, so looting, robbery, murder and so on will be the norm for people to survive - not a nice picture but it is the only scenario that can be seen.
Over the gates article on Cuba is really relevant, and although we complain here in Ireland because we have too much rain, our future might be catching it and selling it to other countries - we will never run out of water here.
We are also well under populated, I'm not saying we will escape problems, because all the city folk living in their so called "posh" apartments with no land will have to go out to look for food, and have no way of makingtheir own, so will probably migrate to looting in the countryside. It is a serious threat, and it probably will happen in the next five years.
People who have watched scientific predictions and "felt" or been "advised" of the future have been preparing themselves and buying the right plot to live on with the right resources (water, sun, wind, etc) for the last
fifteen years.
Some may say these people are mad, others that they are negative and are sad, at the end of the day, they will be able to feed themselves and their loved ones.
The ones that take everything for granted, will suddenly realise that they needed to do the same - too late!
The other thing to realise, is that you need friends, you need to help each other, get on with others and start swapping time for time, help for help, barter, swap food, make sure that you have friends that you can trust and that will be true friends when the chips are down, not fairweather friends. Community is probably the future for survival and for a good, health, way of living, that is fun and not a chore.
Julie
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