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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 6027670" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>Yeah, my timeline is off- i went back & looked- but I honestly do mean a global population of 100M. The reason is the starting conditions are different. The climb to 7 billion was slow. The fall from 7 billion in a scenario like this would be like a crashing plane.</p><p></p><p>The ancient world's population was basically in growth mode supported by sufficient food supplies, water and shelter. Most lived an agrarian lifestyle and could hunt. Population density was much lower. People were prepared for harder living than we are today.</p><p></p><p>In a collapse of the modern world, population densities will be much higher, and most people live in cities. This leads to better disease vectoring, more starvation (since there is less food nearby and more people wanting it). This means death in huge numbers.</p><p></p><p>There will be more people dying of thirst because so few of us live near a potable water source. Even in some of our cultivated farmlands, water isn't necessarily easily available without power. I live in Texas. Texas has only one natural lake. While we do get rain, the climate is pretty dry, so our farms need to irrigate. And that requires power.</p><p></p><p>Another part of that is because we've reclaimed some of that farmed land from deserts or river basins that have been dammed up. Once those dams fail to operate properly, they'll burst after a while, sending millions of tons of water to reclaim some of those farms.</p><p></p><p>And think about this- what is the water going to be like downriver from the charnel houses of the doomed cities they flow through? Contaminated with putrified corpses for many miles...undrinkable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 6027670, member: 19675"] Yeah, my timeline is off- i went back & looked- but I honestly do mean a global population of 100M. The reason is the starting conditions are different. The climb to 7 billion was slow. The fall from 7 billion in a scenario like this would be like a crashing plane. The ancient world's population was basically in growth mode supported by sufficient food supplies, water and shelter. Most lived an agrarian lifestyle and could hunt. Population density was much lower. People were prepared for harder living than we are today. In a collapse of the modern world, population densities will be much higher, and most people live in cities. This leads to better disease vectoring, more starvation (since there is less food nearby and more people wanting it). This means death in huge numbers. There will be more people dying of thirst because so few of us live near a potable water source. Even in some of our cultivated farmlands, water isn't necessarily easily available without power. I live in Texas. Texas has only one natural lake. While we do get rain, the climate is pretty dry, so our farms need to irrigate. And that requires power. Another part of that is because we've reclaimed some of that farmed land from deserts or river basins that have been dammed up. Once those dams fail to operate properly, they'll burst after a while, sending millions of tons of water to reclaim some of those farms. And think about this- what is the water going to be like downriver from the charnel houses of the doomed cities they flow through? Contaminated with putrified corpses for many miles...undrinkable. [/QUOTE]
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