The way it works is 20 years from now they will be eating roasted rats and telling each other "Do you remember when cabagge was affordable? Ah, those were the times!"

20 years not gradual, that's barely a generation. Funny you mention eating rat; i watched a film this year. Made in England, shot in the city of Sheffield using unknown actors and the rest local people as extras. They had a great time making this movie in the 1980s and at the time they released it alot of the people who had been part of the film, ordinary local people that had laughed and joked on set as they maybe were covered in tomato sauce fake blood, sat in on the first screenings. At the end of the film:silence. All you could hear were people sobbing in the back of the theatre. I'm not kidding you, after i watched the film, which was set in a culture i know well, with people i could relate to as the kind i grew up with - doing the things people did then: it took me near two weeks to shake off the grey cloud over my head. I'm lucky, not much makes me sad and i am an optimistic person - but this film left alot of people traumatized: it was so real. And yes people were surviving on rats and whatever they could. Life went on though, by the end of the film, 20 years had passed, at least enough time for one generation to be born and bear the next, and from digging around in the dirt- steam power was again being harnessed, people's lives were a misery where the next generation's language had descended into a more primitive speech than our own: but humanity survived. Humanity will survive the worst we can do i'm sure, even megatons of atom bombs. We may not survive a natural made disaster though. Whatever you think of global warming, it is such forces of nature that can make us extinct. 

People in the West will be fine i'm sure, if we can grow what we need to eat ;) (and need to keep ourselves warm, and keep the rain and wind off and spin the cloth for our shirts)

Seriously there are many well respected people who believe the only way for us to continue as a civilization in the long run is to spread out a bit more with vastly more of us farming 'our own' land, and for more local community based industry. It's not a crazy idea i think. In fact it is a proven recipe for a 'pretty good' life. At the end of the day speculating that the unproven recipe for a good life, betting on things that havn't and may not ever be invented, is the way to achieve Happy Ever After is still unproven speculation.

The soil is where we come from, funny flowers that we are-still, the soil is what we depend on- that and the rain and sunshine.

That first line was a quote btw, not plagerism ;)

Thu Jan 08 2026 18:22:05 UTC from darknetuser

The way it works is 20 years from now they will be eating roasted rats and telling each other "Do you remember when cabagge was affordable? Ah, those were the times!"