Timeline for Little known, relatively unlikely, but scientifically plausible, apocalyptic (or near apocalyptic) events
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| Apr 4, 2019 at 13:19 | comment | added | Hobbamok | @vsz yeah, they were low on food, but not completely OUT of it. And the actually besieged cities were full of soldiers, who were kept tightly in check by regular executions of anyone even looking like he might want to desert. No way that much order is kept up with a civilian population | |
| Apr 4, 2019 at 8:31 | comment | added | Tim B II | Actually @vsz, I'd argue that in many of those cases society actually did collapse, but it was restored before the situation reached a critical mass of structural failure and memories of what society should be had faded. In the cases where that didn't happen despite the shortages, often the members of that society had a crucial resource that wouldn't be available under this scenario; hope. I'd also point out that the cities were smaller, had fewer occupants due to the numbers out fighting, and most of those left were already used to hardship thanks to rationing et al. | |
| Apr 4, 2019 at 6:23 | comment | added | vsz | Europe in the 1940's was already very dependent on fossile fuel to feed its large cities, yet in WW2 big cities were under siege for months, some for years, millions died, many from starvation, but society didn't collapse. | |
| Apr 4, 2019 at 4:54 | comment | added | Sonvar | Should add, many of the modern fertilizers have petroleum based products in them. Even if you could get fertilizers to your farm, no more fertilizers are going to be produced. | |
| Apr 3, 2019 at 23:51 | history | answered | Tim B II | CC BY-SA 4.0 |