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        Copyright © by Nila Gaede 2008
The last stage
of a mass
extinction:
Cannibalism
Adapted for the Internet from:

Why God Doesn't Exist

    So what can you look forward to the day our artificial economy collapses? How are you going to stay
    alive (i.e., feed yourself)? Will you go to the asphalt jungle and bag yourself a woolly or maybe plant
    potatoes on your living room carpet? Think of it. You are entirely like a baby, dependent on your local
    grocery store, which in turn is entirely dependent on the agricultural corporation for the production,
    manufacturing, and distribution of food. The problem is that the agricultural corporation performs all
    these services for a profit and not to keep you alive. No profits, no food. It’s just that simple.

    So what happens to a population that starves? Does it go to the voting booth and fire its politicians?  
    What good will come of this if the politicians can’t remedy the situation? Will political leaders order private
    corporations running the food supply to put out more food at gunpoint to make it less expensive on the
    consumer? I mention this because at least one fellow speculates that this may be a solution during hard
    times:

    “ during a famine, doubling the supply of food has large positive externalities
       because starvation leads to robbery, hunger riots, and even cannibalism.
       During times of plenty, however, doubling the food supply would probably
       have no noticeable effect on crime.” [1]

    In worst case scenarios, when order collapses entirely, you can expect people to take matters into their
    own hands. The record shows that desperate people resort to cannibalism. [2] [3]

    “ The collapse of the productive forces surpassed anything of the kind that
       history had ever seen. The country and its government were at the very
       edge of the abyss. Although the Bolsheviks won the Civil War, Russia’s
       national income had dropped to only one-third and industrial output to
       less than one-fifth of the prewar levels. By 1921 Moscow had lost half its
       population; Petrograd, two-thirds… In those areas, 90 to 95 percent of the
       children under three years old died; surviving children were abandoned
       as one or both parents died, leaving them starving and homeless. There
       were incidents of cannibalism.” [4]

    It is important to note that the atrocities happened independently of those committed directly by the
    politicians. We also must keep in mind that Russia received external aid. It was not a closed economy.

    Cannibalism was also reported to have happened during the Great Famine of 1315. Perhaps the T-Rex
    bite marks we see on other T-Rexes are an indication that these creatures resorted to cannibalism when
    their immediate habitat collapsed. [5]  In some cases, we are perhaps staring at some of the last T-Rexes
    that ever walked on Earth.

    Nevertheless, we can expect cannibalism to be widespread when there is nothing left to eat. The very last
    stage of a mass extinction is necessarily cannibalism. It happens to the best of us. The strong will eat the
    weak, the father his child, the jailer his prisoner, the doctor his patient. The demographic collapse is
    exponential. It happens everywhere at the same time.
Save me a piece of our
neighbor, Auntie! Will ya?