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This year may be biblical
Pyre:
--- Quote from: tp4tissue on Sun, 19 May 2024, 06:12:11 ---In the event of, let's call it scarcity, a CITY would tear itself apart. The amount and rate of destruction would rise exponentially relative to population size.
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Indeed - its fascinating how interconnected a city is, and how much its denizens don't realise the effort it takes to get various things on the store shelves - and how fragile that all is.
We saw in here in Sydney during COVID with people fighting over toilet paper of all things :D
Rhienfo:
--- Quote from: Pyre on Fri, 24 May 2024, 19:02:07 ---
--- Quote from: tp4tissue on Sun, 19 May 2024, 06:12:11 ---In the event of, let's call it scarcity, a CITY would tear itself apart. The amount and rate of destruction would rise exponentially relative to population size.
--- End quote ---
Indeed - its fascinating how interconnected a city is, and how much its denizens don't realise the effort it takes to get various things on the store shelves - and how fragile that all is.
We saw in here in Sydney during COVID with people fighting over toilet paper of all things :D
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The toilet paper hoarding was the strangest thing, I would've expected hand sanitiser and soap to run off the shelves first but toilet paper seemed so random, I remember hearing that the majority of toilet paper in Australia is produced locally, so it made it even more random cause there wouldn't have been shortages if there wasn't any panic about it.
fohat.digs:
This picture is not pretty.
tp4tissue:
It's going to be worse during harvest season through June. Harvest releases a ton of carbon. And at the same time removes the surface plants which absorb carbon
tp4tissue:
In Mexico, it's so hot right now, overheated monkeys are falling from trees, suffering injury and death.
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