In an emergency, is it safe to eat the geese at my local park?

[HappyDuckie]

Sure you can. It's a self cleansing sort of meal.

 

[MarkJr]

TBH, people with guns have a chance of being useful... But nowhere near as useful as having a cohesive society. We literally evolved for group cooperative behavior. Stocking up ammo won't do you any good if you don't have someone who knows how to clean, sew, cook, build a fire, craft a pot, treat a wound, etc. There's too much knowledge needed for really living for one person to hold. No man is an island.

That's how I'm really hoping things can pan out. Sister with RA almost has her degree in chemistry with a focus on pharmacology. She can't treat a wound or butcher a deer but she has a chance of actually doing to lab work to create rudimentary medicine. Partner can play the flute, sing like a bird, teach children but can't butcher a deer. I can grow a row of potatoes, but when it comes to managing people and making them happy/keeping morale high I'm not the brightest bulb in the box. Forming groups and working together is really where it's at.

And yes, you need someone to hunt the geese with a gun too. But they're really just a small portion of society, and building a society is critical to success especially for people with advanced needs IMO.

SHTF scenario cohesive society isn’t going to cut it. Simply not enough resources to go around. Small groups of 20-30 max will be able to provide security and collectively have enough knowledge to make it.

The weak and infirm, unfortunately won’t make the cut.

 

[HappyDuckie]

There is clearly a LOT of bored people today

What do you mean? All I see is people having fun.

 

[ILoveBabySilkies]

SHTF scenario cohesive society isn’t going to cut it. Simply not enough resources to go around. Small groups of 20-30 max will be able to provide security and collectively have enough knowledge to make it.

The weak and infirm, unfortunately won’t make the cut.

Yep, it would simply be too difficult to provide for groups bigger than you said.

 

[KingD]

What do you mean? All I see is people having fun.

Your not wrong

 

[Painted Calls]

Y'all are nutters.

 

[ILoveBabySilkies]

Y'all are nutters.

Guilty as charged

 

[ChocolateMouse]

SHTF scenario cohesive society isn’t going to cut it. Simply not enough resources to go around. Small groups of 20-30 max will be able to provide security and collectively have enough knowledge to make it.

The weak and infirm, unfortunately won’t make the cut.

Depends entirely on the scenario. We live in a resource rich world. If society collapses in such a way that large swaths of humans die, the resources will still be sitting there with nobody to deal with it. If you wanna talk about resource to human capacity, we have a HUGE number of people in the world already. How is that ratio gonna get worse if people start dying?

Not sure what scenario you're thinking of where all our buildings and forests and waste vanishes but not all the people along with it. But unless aliens start beaming our cities and farmland into space I struggle to see a SHTF scenario where there's MORE people to world resources than we're already at.

 

[SBFChickenGirl]

Y'all are nutters.

That was established quite a while ago...
I'm surprised some of us are still alive, with the mummy geese and whatnot.

 

[MarkJr]

Y'all are nutters.

But, it’s actually a productive squirrel chasing endeavor.
Almost as many side tracks as a party thread.