wkwillis said:
1. Did the Russians attack China because China was on our side? So why is Taiwan attacking China?
2. Why are southern hemisphere countries raiding the urban coastal areas? Why not just show up with food in return for whatever they want?
3. Why is food production down to 2 percent in the US? We can do better than that using hoes to kill weeds and hands to kill bugs. Remember, there are more than one hundred million unemployed Americans.
4. Why are the armies still fighting in Germany? The German industrial areas are gone. Germany is just a bunch of hungry people.
5. Why are the Arabs attacking Israel? Israel is a smoking, radioactive, wasteland.
6. You can still burn oil for warmth, and you can still get some gasoline out of oil without a refinery. All a refinery does is increase your transport fuel percentage from 10% to 60%, and produce asphalt, coke, fuel gas, plastics precursers, and electricity as byproducts. There will still be demand for oil just to burn to generate electricity.
7. Why are areas of China seceding? From what?
8. Why are Chinese moving into Siberia? There is no food there, and there is now a much lower Chinese population density.
9. Why bubonic plague instead of pneumonic plague? Bubonic plague needs fleas to spread and since we have huge quantities of insecticides in our garages there won't be any fleas and lice to spread bubonic plague and typhus. Cholera is also more likely without central water supplies having enough clorine.
When I see things like that I have problems believing the other stuff he says, like why the nuclear winter is so mild.
1. a) Probably. Or because they fear that THEY might attack first (old wisdom: Strike the enemy while he's weak) b) Taiwan and communist China are old enemies. Since the superpowers won't stop them now, they'll duke it out.
2. Why are they supposed to trade fair if they can simply take? Third world countries were never famous for having food surplus, anyway...
3. The nuclear exchange was before the harvest. So the crops were destroyed on the fields / made unedible because of radiation.
4. I read that they only used tacnukes in Germany.
5. Revenge? Don't forget, Israel attacked them first with nukes. They certainly want to put sure that no Israeli survives. :-C
7. Warlords using the opportunity to secede. Since there's no more government, people want someone to take control. Of course, you could ask whether a country declaring its independence after there's no more central government at all (because it's been nuked) is actually seceding, but that doesn't matter IMO.
8. I guess that the US won't attack many targets in Siberia; most cities are too small and unimportant (except Vladivostok and some bases with ICBMs, maybe). Lots of land, few people there, revenge for Russia's nuclear attack... Yes, China's population also dropped, but most of their arable land now is radiated. (And China never had that much, proportionally.)
9. He also mentions typhus, pneumonia and influenza. And: Mild winter? 4 degrees less can mean a lot, since summer wheat f.e. needs temperatures above 10°C for 100 days continued. Check your atlas about some areas where you can grow wheat now and where it becomes impossible if temperatures dropped 4°. Canada, Siberia, many parts of Europe, for example.
