Ireland ‘one of world’s best five places’ to survive global societal collapse

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Ireland ‘one of world’s best five places’ to survive global societal collapse

Study citing ‘perilous state’ of industrial civilisation ranks temperate islands top for resilience

www.irishtimes.com

Isn't covid19 virus a master plan by social anarchists to cause the breakdown of worldwide society???

 

[editor]

Isn't covid19 virus a master plan by social anarchists to cause the breakdown of worldwide society???

What the fuck are you on about, copy and paste boy?

 

[Pickman's model]

What the fuck are you on about, copy and paste boy?

So many people c&p now it's not treated as the sin it once was. But judging by their comment at the end I think the ban button could usefully be pressed before they sully our shiny boards further

 

[planetgeli]

Isn't covid19 virus a master plan by social anarchists to cause the breakdown of worldwide society???

Yes I've been wondering about this too. Can you expand on your theory please. Teach me.

 

[nosos]

Isn't covid19 virus a master plan by social anarchists to cause the breakdown of worldwide society???

It's a crap plan, if so. A better masterplan by social anarchists trying to cause the breakdown of world society would be to chip away at the effectiveness of global public health responses by circulating a vast range of lazily conceived conspiracy theories.

 

[petee]

Isn't covid19 virus a master plan by social anarchists to cause the breakdown of worldwide society???

no.

 

[flypanam]

Classic Irish Times piece there, loads of shite talk and a misleading headline all with the aim of pushing up house prices.

 

[platinumsage]

Is this like how the US and UK were supposedly best-placed to tackle a pandemic?

 

[scifisam]

Funny that the UK was also in the top five but the only one without a link

 

[RainbowTown]

Isn't covid19 virus a master plan by social anarchists to cause the breakdown of worldwide society???

Go do some voluntary work in a hospital or care home or something. Oh, and best to take off that tin foil hat, as well. Just in case your brain becomes even more frizzled.

 

[Flavour]

It's a crap plan, if so. A better masterplan by social anarchists trying to cause the breakdown of world society would be to chip away at the effectiveness of global public health responses by circulating a vast range of lazily conceived conspiracy theories.

Long time no see nosos!!

 

[MickiQ]

You can understand places like New Zealand and even Australia being OK places to try and ride out global collapse but not Ireland. It's just too near to bigger and more powerful neighbours (the UK in particular) that might be desperate for food.
I have this mental vision of Priti Patel trying to sneak across the Irish Sea on a raft

 

[Pickman's model]

You can understand places like New Zealand and even Australia being OK places to try and ride out global collapse but not Ireland. It's just too near to bigger and more powerful neighbours (the UK in particular) that might be desperate for food.
I have this mental vision of Priti Patel trying to sneak across the Irish Sea on a raft

I have this mental vision of her missing Ireland entirely

Or arriving and finding out the locals have heard of her. And nothing more being heard of her after that.

 

[Lord Camomile]

You can understand places like New Zealand and even Australia being OK places to try and ride out global collapse but not Ireland. It's just too near to bigger and more powerful neighbours (the UK in particular) that might be desperate for food.
I have this mental vision of Priti Patel trying to sneak across the Irish Sea on a raft

To be honest, I was surprised to see the UK on there, purely because I think we'd eat ourselves* from the inside. Guess it depends on what the scenario is as to how any nation would fare, 'cause aye, if it's any scenario where there's still access to military weaponry and nukes then, y'know...

Actually, I do wonder if there's somewhere small enough to not be targeted in a nuke attack (beyond a 'scorched earth policy') and distant enough to avoid environmental collateral damage.


*possibly literally

 

[mystic pyjamas]

What’s a social anarchist look like?

 

[Artaxerxes]

To be honest, I was surprised to see the UK on there, purely because I think we'd eat ourselves* from the inside. Guess it depends on what the scenario is as to how any nation would fare, 'cause aye, if it's any scenario where there's still access to military weaponry and nukes then, y'know...

Actually, I do wonder if there's somewhere small enough to not be targeted in a nuke attack (beyond a 'scorched earth policy') and distant enough to avoid environmental collateral damage.


*possibly literally

I assume the UK is on there because the government's happy to throw people under a bus for money and the climate here will avoid the worst of the heat because we're on an island

 

[flypanam]

I have this mental vision of her missing Ireland entirely

Or arriving and finding out the locals have heard of her. And nothing more being heard of her after that.

Or the 'taxi service' missing the pick up spot when she falls into the sea.

 

[Lord Camomile]

I assume the UK is on there because the government's happy to throw people under a bus for money and the climate here will avoid the worst of the heat because we're on an island

We'll still get hit with extreme weather won't we?

Obviously being an island surrounded by water isn't great for rising seas, but I guess we've got enough hilly bits far enough from the (current...) coast for some to survive.

 

[flypanam]

We'll still get hit with extreme weather won't we?

Obviously being an island surrounded by water isn't great for rising seas, but I guess we've got enough hilly bits far enough from the (current...) coast for some to survive.

A map of Ireland with a much higher sea level, notice there is no space for holiday homes.

http://cf.broadsheet.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ireland2100.jpg

 

[Artaxerxes]

We'll still get hit with extreme weather won't we?

Obviously being an island surrounded by water isn't great for rising seas, but I guess we've got enough hilly bits far enough from the (current...) coast for some to survive.

We'll be hit but not as badly as elsewhere, mostly floods and rain the odd drought. I'd avoid East Anglia though and bits of the West Country

 

[Aladdin]

I have this mental vision of her missing Ireland entirely

Or arriving and finding out the locals have heard of her. And nothing more being heard of her after that.

I have a vision of her boat sinking.

 

[Aladdin]

A map of Ireland with a much higher sea level, notice there is no space for holiday homes.

http://cf.broadsheet.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ireland2100.jpg

Crikey that's scary.
We're just an archipelago then?

What will the UK be like?

 

[two sheds]

A map of Ireland with a much higher sea level, notice there is no space for holiday homes.

http://cf.broadsheet.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ireland2100.jpg

Where's Galway? Galway's not on there (((Galway)))

 

[Yossarian]

I'd have picked a more tropical island to ride out a societal collapse but the study's authors are looking at a scenario where they're uninhabitable.

The British Isles, Scandinavia, Patagonia, Tasmania and the South Island of New Zealand are identified as locations that migrants may seek to relocate to in this scenario. With the global average temperature increased by 4 °C, much of the land in the tropical and subtropical latitudes may become unproductive and depopulated, and inundated coastlines are common throughout the world [60] with Scandinavia, the British Isles and New Zealand identified as potential lifeboats

Imagine a dystopian future where refugees from countries hit by war and climate crises are desperate to make it across the English Channel, you might even get cunts like Farage arguing that they shouldn't be rescued if their boats get into trouble.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Crikey that's scary.
We're just an archipelago then?

What will the UK be like?

Pinch of salt with that

Sea level rise and coastal flood risk maps -- a global screening tool by Climate Central

Interactive global map showing areas threatened by sea level rise and coastal flooding.

coastal.climatecentral.org

 

[cupid_stunt]

Pinch of salt with that

Sea level rise and coastal flood risk maps -- a global screening tool by Climate Central

Interactive global map showing areas threatened by sea level rise and coastal flooding.

coastal.climatecentral.org

Well, that wipes out most of Worthing, including my place, which is on fairly high ground compared to the seafront.

Thank fuck I'll not be around to see that.

 

[flypanam]

Pinch of salt with that

Sea level rise and coastal flood risk maps -- a global screening tool by Climate Central

Interactive global map showing areas threatened by sea level rise and coastal flooding.

coastal.climatecentral.org

The whole point is push a worst case scenario so we don't get the rich crowding the country. If the rich want to survive I'm sure a refugee camp can be constructed at Tramore.

 

[cupid_stunt]

The whole point is push a worst case scenario so we don't get the rich crowding the country. If the rich want to survive I'm sure a refugee camp can be constructed at Tramore.

That's unfair on Tramore.

 

[flypanam]

That's unfair on Tramore.

Nah. Tramore is a blister. I spent a whole miserable summer there.

 

[Yossarian]

Well, that wipes out most of Worthing, including my place, which is on fairly high ground compared to the seafront.

Thank fuck I'll not be around to see that.

Property developers might already be eyeing opportunities around Cambridge Bay and the Scunthorpe Archipelago.