Can You Even Survive a Global Famine?
The most profound problem facing survivors is that human knowledge is collective, distributed across the population. No one individual knows enough to keep the vital processes of society going. Even if a skilled technician from a steel foundry survived, he would only know the details of his job, not the subsets of knowledge possessed by other worke... See more
Lewis Dartnell • The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm
There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines. If people in Syria, Sudan or Somalia starve to death, it is because some politician wants them to.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Seventy years ago, the international community faced the largest
Paul Collier, Alexander Betts • Refuge
When severe drought hit ancient Egypt or medieval India, it was not uncommon that 5 or 10 per cent of the population perished.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
So a realistic lifetime of trying to adapt yourself to a broken civilization looks like: