Doom and Gloom

[ewt]

Wheat stem rust

Colony Collapse Disorder

Energy shortages

Resistant TB

Bird 'flu

War

Climate change

And people wonder why I get so discouraged. This was going to be a link round-up but it got too depressing.

Comments

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

War, Pestilence [or pollution], Famine & Death...

oh yeah, and Apophis (http://www.armageddononline.org/99942_apophis_asteroid.php)

Trust me, it's possible to survive just about anything...
it's all a matter of where you are standing!

[phelyan.livejournal.com]

As in "as far away from anything as possible"?

[spodlife]

If you are "as far away from anything as possible" then the vacuum will kill you. Oops.

[pplfichi.livejournal.com]

Only, I'm not sure that's really possible for most people, and not likely to be for some time yet...

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Well, depends on your definition of anything...

Personally, I'm thinking of New Zealand. It's position is such that an asteroid would ahve to have a very weird orbital inclination to get even close, and the NZ government are working towards being a self-sufficent country, so the rest of the global economy could go to hell and not affect it.

Granted, a dinosaur-killer strike might cause problems, but even that kind of global winter would only last a few years, and would be survivable.

If we consider the other options, it's easily isolated in the event of pandemic, and is separated into two big islands and lots of little ones as well, so has the functional equivalent of bulkheads. Global climate change is predicted to impact there less than anywhere else, thanks tot he affects of deep sea currents [which are largely unaffected by surface conditions].

Over-all, unless we postulate a planet destroying event, NZ is the most best place to be. And it's pretty civilized already.