Pathogens are Massing at the Gates
Human and Plant Diseases have been kept at bay for over a century
Doomsday preppers are focused on the futility of growing food, stacking gold, silver and ammo.
They are ignorant of the fact that before we harnessed fossil fuels and industrialized, humans were malnourished, disease-ridden beasts that suffered horribly as plagues ravaged the planet.
This grim situation mostly ended with the advent of antibiotics, sewage and water treatment, and massive improvements in nutrition and medical care. All made possible because of fossil fuels.
When civilization collapses all these advancements will vapourize. The pathogens that have been evolving trying to break through the wall of antibiotics that we constantly tweak are now super-charged. When the barrier crashes down because of severe depletion of oil and other energy sources these bugs on steroids are going to tear through whoever survives the collapse and make the Black Death look like a sniffle.
Similarly agricultural scientists have been in a constant battle with pathogens that attack plants, coming up with new pesticides to stay a step ahead and fending off famine.
Imagine what will happen to crops when pesticides are no longer available (there will also be no manure for composting because all the animals will be eaten).
What we are looking at is an Extinction Event. Nobody survives. In fact those who die first, are the lucky ones. There will be nothing but misery and suffering for the humans who linger.
Murder, rape, disease, cannibalism and spent fuel ponds - Fast Eddy’s Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
The emergence of antibiotics, sanitation measures, fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides , GMO hybrid seeds, industrialized mechanized farming are analogous to creation of a debt -based fractional reserve, fiat currency financialization of an economy, all resulting in a one time explosive growth in population.
All these things compound their effectiveness, like with the Cantillon effect: (those who get first dibs on the newly created fiat currency benefit the most, and those who get to use it later after inflation has taken hold lose out. )
In a similar way those who get to the fertile farm soil first get to exploit its nutrient value with bumper harvests, but those who plant or graze later lose out.
Farmland is now essentially a sterile planting surface which needs irrigation, fertilizer pesticides, fungicides, special genetically modified seeds and massive equipment to produce.
All goes well at first. Then there is hell to pay. Easy -to -procure natural resources, energy, and massive infusions of fiat debt work initially, like antibiotics, until resistance and depletion set in.
Then there is the great unwind.
I'm rooting for you, F.E.. Because you may be the One. The one that justifies these billions of injections fuckin ppl up and killing them. Q: Why? A: There's a virus. Q: Show us. A: ...crickets... But now there's Fast Eddie and you will put our questions to rest, not just babble things and dance around it! We're so tired of the dancing and we're running out of poultry and livestock to cull. You will prove it even if virologists don't really feel like it right now and for that I thank you in advance! You have one job, Fast Eddie and it's a damn good day because I think you're up for the challenge. This ain't no dance contest, am I right? The dancing stops with you! Let the proving begin and let's get your gold framed portrait masterpiece up in the halls of all those virology campuses cooping up the shy geniuses. I think it eats at them that everyone has a thing they do except them. Dog catchers have dogs, firefighters have fires, home builders have homes to build...if only virologists had a virus! URGH!! Let's get you in a sweet castle with chauffeurs and chefs and butlers and shit. K GO!