Collapse and Cannibalism

8+ billion vicious starving humans and the orgy of violence that will ensue

THE GREAT RUSSIAN FAMINE OF 1921

The famine also gave rise to wild tales of murder, cannibalism and a black market trade in human flesh. The true extent of cannibalism in the Great Famine is unknown.

Nevertheless, some Russian academics have researched and catalogued examples of cannibalism and corpse eating, while American relief workers also observed these behaviours. Cannibalism was most common along the Volga River basin, in areas where the famine was most severe. Starving peasants there were observed digging up recently buried corpses for their flesh.

Accounts of murder or euthanasia – followed by butchery and feasting – were reported. One woman refused to give over the body of her dead husband because she was using it for meat. Parents and siblings ate the bodies of dead children.

As the death toll increased, an illegal trade in human flesh also emerged. Quantities of nondescript meat appeared in markets in Russian towns and cities, some of it undoubtedly human. An aid worker wrote of the situation in late 1921:

“Families were killing and devouring fathers, grandfathers and children. Ghastly rumours about sausages prepared with human corpses (the technical expression was ‘ground to sausages’) though officially contradicted, were common. In the market, among rough huckstresses swearing at each other, one heard threats to make sausages of a person.”

Role of ‘survivor cannibalism’ during Great Famine detailed in new TV documentary

The lengths to which Irish people went to stay alive including cannibalism have been detailed in a new documentary on the Great Famine.

Entitled The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine, it the first major documentary by RTÉ exclusively about the calamity and is being brought out to mark the 175th anniversary of its beginning in 1845.

Things became so bad in “Black 1847” with further famines in 1848 and 1849 that people were reduced to eating putrid pigs, donkeys and dogs.

There were also incidents of cannibalism recorded in counties Cork, Kerry, Galway and Mayo.

Cannibalism in Europe

Acts of cannibalism in Europe seem to have been relatively prevalent in prehistory but also occurred repeatedly in later times, often motivated by hunger, hatred, or medical concerns.

Many instances of cannibalism by necessity were recorded during World War II. For example, during the 872-day siege of Leningrad, reports of cannibalism began to appear in the winter of 1941–1942, after all birds, rats, and pets were eaten by survivors. Leningrad police even formed a special division to combat cannibalism.

About 2.8 million Soviet prisoners of war died in Nazi custody in less than eight months during 1941–42.[56] According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, by the winter of 1941, "starvation and disease resulted in mass death of unimaginable proportions". This deliberate starvation led to many incidents of cannibalism.

Cannibalism in Asia

Acts of cannibalism in Asia have been reported from various parts of the continent, ranging from ancient history to the 21st century. Human cannibalism is particularly well documented for China and for islands that today belong to Indonesia.

Why Our Food is So Dependent on Oil

“Eating Oil” was the title of a book which was published in 1978 following the first oil crisis in 1973 (1). The aim of the book was to investigate the extent to which food supply in industrialised countries relied on fossil fuels.

Today the food system is even more reliant on cheap crude oil. Virtually all of the processes in the modern food system are now dependent upon this finite resource, which is nearing its depletion phase.

The systems that produce the world’s food supply are heavily dependent on fossil fuels. Vast amounts of oil and gas are used as raw materials and energy in the manufacture of fertilisers and pesticides, and as cheap and readily available energy at all stages of food production: from planting, irrigation, feeding and harvesting, through to processing, distribution and packaging. In addition, fossil fuels are essential in the construction and the repair of equipment and infrastructure needed to facilitate this industry, including farm machinery, processing facilities, storage, ships, trucks and roads. The industrial food supply system is one of the biggest consumers of fossil fuels.

Does this Frighten You?

Natural Gas Production is Contracting

Conventional oil production peaked nearly 20 years ago, we have been desperately cannibalizing nuclear war heads to fuel reactors, and shale oil production is now declining. Renewable energy is nothing more than a mirage of hopium.

The fourth horseman of the apocalypse is now mounted - natural gas production is contracting.

Thank God for Shale Oil and Gas

We’d be fucked without it…

Ocean of Oil and Gas found on the Moon

Should we celebrate? If not, why not?

Financial System Supply-Chain Cross-Contagion

A study in global systemic collapse

WHAT IS TO BE DONE?

If you were one of the Men Who Run the World and your Deep State experts made you aware of this situation what would you vote for? This is what the Men Who Run the World voted for.

Meanwhile…

How increasing economic instability signals a tipping point from growth into decline

Policy makers in their efforts to maintain ‘normalcy’ (economic growth, stable prices, reliable supply chains etc.) have completely missed the fact that this ‘normalcy’ was anything but. The relentless expansion of economic activity over the past century was in fact a historical anomaly. But not only the rate of growth was unsustainable throughout the past decades, but also the resulting level of consumption; as both were predicated on a steadily increasing draw-down of non-renewable mineral resources. Yet, 99.999% of humanity still remains in denial saying: ‘This cannot possibly happen to us!’ They act like the proverbial person jumping off a skyscraper reassuring themselves: ‘Ninety-nine floors… So far so good!’ Something has to give, though. Material and energy consumption simply cannot grow forever. And as the saying goes: that which is unsustainable will not be sustained... The question is, how do we know that we have reached the tipping point, where centuries of growth turns into a permanent decline?

Energy limits are forcing the economy to contract

My analysis indicates that our expectation of what goes wrong with inadequate energy supplies is wrong. Strangely enough, it is the finances of governments that start to fail, early on. They add too much debt to support investments that do not pay back well. They add too many programs that they cannot be supported for the long term. They become more willing to quarrel with other countries. Of course, no one will tell us what is really happening, partly because politicians themselves don’t understand.

In this post, I will try to explain some of the changes taking place as the economy begins to reorganize and deal with this inadequate energy supply situation.