For people reading “water wars” and still chuckling and not taking it seriously because you’re imagining a Mad Max world with gangs of people in dusty leather driving hot-rods with spikes all over them chasing down tanker trucks full of snapple, ya’ll need to understand that the term “water” isn’t going to be used overtly nor as a primary driver for events, and it will be only one of many compounding factors that drive people to mass-migration events.
The mass-migration events are going to get larger and more contentious, and it will lead to people electing even more authoritarian leaders because people have a deep-rooted fear of outsiders entering their land.
These authoritarians are going to start more fights, provoke more wars, and do horrendous things to innocent people. To those saying “this is already happening” yes, you are right… but it’s going to get worse as the climate heats up and resources like water become harder to access in areas of dense population. These are the places that the rest of the world will start to cut off and starve first, either overtly or just as a consequence of nations having to divert resources where they can.
Save money. Have about 3 - 4 weeks of food and water on hand in case you end up having to move or in case there is civil disruption that cuts off services for days or weeks. Buy a lot of rice and beans. Get a gun. Get a plan together in case you need to leave your city. Do these things no matter where you live or how safe you think you are.
Every country that had a Civil War, or was invaded, attacked, bombed, etc. all believed it could never happen in their beautiful country.
Sarajevo held an Olympics, and a few years later was under one of the most horrific sieges in written history. Every German in 1936 would have laughed in your face if you’d described their country less than 10 years later. In old Europe, entire cities were thriving for generations, living their normal lives one day, only to have hordes of Huns or Mongols invade the next day, and kill every single person. English villages were suddenly invaded by Vikings with no warning, the mysterious Sea People ravaged the Mediterranean coasts, the European Crusaders brutally slaughtered millions for daring to not be Christian, a religion many of those Middle Eastern people of the time didn’t even know existed.
The point is, NOBODY expects their nation to completely fail overnight, but it happens all the time. Right now, the people of Venezuela have been plunged into an anarchic nightmare with no warning. With no real governmental authority, a lot of personal scores are being settled right now, and it will only get worse for them. When a dictator is deposed, it leaves a power vacuum, and right now, many people are fighting for ultimate control, including MAGA. Until then, robbery, rape, and murder are going to be normal life for a while.
And that is America’s future as well, if we don’t take the MAGA National Security Threat seriously.
You probably live in walking distance of people who have survived forced marches, famine and starvation, deaths of family, military oppression and extreme survival situations that they made it through and went on live in the better world that follows.
You literally cannot know what’s going to happen a week down the line in any situation, that’s why I advocate for stocking up for a few weeks, because that’s generally how long major social disruptions last before things either calm down or get worse. Always bet on the better outcome and prepare for the worst. It isn’t over until it’s over and you have no idea if what happens after death is better or worse. You might stay dead 101010^56 years and suddenly pop back into existence as a kind of sapient bug being slowly digested by a pitcher-plan type life form, or worse. We lived over a half million years as relatively modern primates, and you could have been born as any of of them struggling to survive, you already won the lottery once, why try again.
Just wait for the water wars…
For people reading “water wars” and still chuckling and not taking it seriously because you’re imagining a Mad Max world with gangs of people in dusty leather driving hot-rods with spikes all over them chasing down tanker trucks full of snapple, ya’ll need to understand that the term “water” isn’t going to be used overtly nor as a primary driver for events, and it will be only one of many compounding factors that drive people to mass-migration events.
The mass-migration events are going to get larger and more contentious, and it will lead to people electing even more authoritarian leaders because people have a deep-rooted fear of outsiders entering their land.
These authoritarians are going to start more fights, provoke more wars, and do horrendous things to innocent people. To those saying “this is already happening” yes, you are right… but it’s going to get worse as the climate heats up and resources like water become harder to access in areas of dense population. These are the places that the rest of the world will start to cut off and starve first, either overtly or just as a consequence of nations having to divert resources where they can.
Save money. Have about 3 - 4 weeks of food and water on hand in case you end up having to move or in case there is civil disruption that cuts off services for days or weeks. Buy a lot of rice and beans. Get a gun. Get a plan together in case you need to leave your city. Do these things no matter where you live or how safe you think you are.
Every country that had a Civil War, or was invaded, attacked, bombed, etc. all believed it could never happen in their beautiful country.
Sarajevo held an Olympics, and a few years later was under one of the most horrific sieges in written history. Every German in 1936 would have laughed in your face if you’d described their country less than 10 years later. In old Europe, entire cities were thriving for generations, living their normal lives one day, only to have hordes of Huns or Mongols invade the next day, and kill every single person. English villages were suddenly invaded by Vikings with no warning, the mysterious Sea People ravaged the Mediterranean coasts, the European Crusaders brutally slaughtered millions for daring to not be Christian, a religion many of those Middle Eastern people of the time didn’t even know existed.
The point is, NOBODY expects their nation to completely fail overnight, but it happens all the time. Right now, the people of Venezuela have been plunged into an anarchic nightmare with no warning. With no real governmental authority, a lot of personal scores are being settled right now, and it will only get worse for them. When a dictator is deposed, it leaves a power vacuum, and right now, many people are fighting for ultimate control, including MAGA. Until then, robbery, rape, and murder are going to be normal life for a while.
And that is America’s future as well, if we don’t take the MAGA National Security Threat seriously.
If I get a gun, it’s only going to have one round for it.
I’m not going to live in that world.
Well that’s just stupid.
You probably live in walking distance of people who have survived forced marches, famine and starvation, deaths of family, military oppression and extreme survival situations that they made it through and went on live in the better world that follows.
You literally cannot know what’s going to happen a week down the line in any situation, that’s why I advocate for stocking up for a few weeks, because that’s generally how long major social disruptions last before things either calm down or get worse. Always bet on the better outcome and prepare for the worst. It isn’t over until it’s over and you have no idea if what happens after death is better or worse. You might stay dead 101010^56 years and suddenly pop back into existence as a kind of sapient bug being slowly digested by a pitcher-plan type life form, or worse. We lived over a half million years as relatively modern primates, and you could have been born as any of of them struggling to survive, you already won the lottery once, why try again.
I’d you’re gonna go all out, might as was all go big (more than one round).
Instructions unclear, I’ve gone big