Re: How would the end begin?

it ends like this: ...! . . .

There will be no "glory" in the end of the world. We'll go with a
bang... a lingering groan... some body spasms.. the the corpse will
rot... the maggots will get their fill and Gaia will go about trying to
fix itself...

There won't be many "left behinds" because so much of the world is
inter dependent. Take a way large chunks of those dependencies and the
whole thing collapes on itself.... what you end up with is the
"outsiders" those groups which are not really "connected" to the rest
of the world... those goups that are not dependent on its technologies
or its food or its Tech base energy sources... these groups are already
"adapted" to survive the sudden "end of the world".

There won't be any Mad Max tribes or neo-Tek based tribes... after all
if the world fails, the "Magic" of Tek will have failed too... it would
be no surprise if there are bounties for killing Tekkies ... because
after all Tekkies were responsible for the "end of everything".

Second thing to expect: all of the Handicapped will be offered up to
death... why try to feed a diabetic or a blind man or any other
"limited" human that will "hinder" the survival of the group? This may
turn into a general pogrom to get rid of "undesirables" which compete
for limited resources.

Life span will drop to the levels of the "days of old". Marriage will
once again be the primary right of passage at puberty because the
"moral authorities" are no longer in the way [called up in the rapture
of the new holocaust] . "old age" will be about the age of twenty.

North Korea won't survive... if anything they'll kill themselves.

About 40,000  years from now some wayfaring Space ****p will find the
relics of our once "great" civilization. They'll find only bones of
humans.  They'll shake their heads [??!?] and move on in their search
for *real* intelligent life-- the kind of life that *learns* from its
mistakes.

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