If the worst happens. . .

Now I have returned this blog to the Sefuty Chronicles let me start the New Year with the rather gloomy idea for the back story of the Chronicles.  The end of the world!! Well no, not the end exactly but the discussions on climate change raging across nations over tha last couple of decades inspired and fed the novels.  

 

All my life, we have been preparing for the worst. In the post World War Two years it was the atomic bomb. That fear could almost be tasted. The Government had public information leaflets  prepared on what to do if the worst happened.  These instructions were to be sent to everyone if a threat of a nuclear strike was imminent – sorry, how much time did that give us to prepare? 

We had the Cold War with all its danger of communist take over – my parents' generation seamlessly moved from fear of German invasion to Russian. My generation had to learn, having just missed the German threat.

Then there were terrorists from within our own borders and from across the seas.  Has it always been thus? I should think so life, is dangerous and, depending on our perception, we chew our fingers to the quick or largely ignore it.  Maybe it will all vanish. Look at the Berlin Wall!

Now we have a new possible threat.  Not nations threatening war but, we are told, climate change is going to kill us all - well a great many of us.  Maybe. Probably. 

Our coastal towns will be abandoned to the sea, our land poisoned by the saline waters seeping in.  Fossil fuel our very heart’s blood will dry up, agriculture land turn to deserts. Civilization, as we know it, crumble to dust.

'Too much' we say.   ‘We’ll muddle through, we always have, maybe we will again.’ we say.  Or ‘They’ll think of something, they’ll have to wont they?’

But I’d like to pose a question or two for your thought and/or amusement

If the worst does happen this time around how would you cope?

I’ll start with an easy couple

1) If  fuel runs short permanently what would you miss most?

2) If food becomes scarce can you grow your own?