Johnny Canuck3
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Three thousand years from now, London will probably be a pile of ancient ruins. I'm not sure how it will get that way, or when the thing will happen, but it'll probably be some sort of crisis that brings it about.
Will the UK soon face another crisis as bad as WW2?
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Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
when are you next coming over again?
Johnny Canuck3
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Don't know. I'm not much for planning things too far in advance.
I agree but the pile will not be visible above the water. It only needs the Thames Barrier to fail one winter's night and London will be submerged. I live out in the suburbs and have already put up a beach hut by the ring road in my inland town which will be on the coast in about 20 years time.
Johnny Canuck3
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Where I live, the sea level might rise, which won't be so bad, because I live about 350 feet above sea level. What worries me more, is the mega-thrust quake that's lining up out where the Pacific Plate is sliding under the continental plate, except it seems it's been sticking for a few centuries. It will probably pull free with an immense ripping sound.
really makes you think doesn't it
Johnny Canuck3
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When you get right down to it, it's some pretty heavy shit.
gentlegreen
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Random
Ethnic nalgocrat
Because people like Plane Stupid, the Green party and No Borders are in the news avocating 'solutions' to current crises. If the issues these groups are associated with become far far more serious then any administration that wants to look like it's doing something will probably want to co-opt such media faces, to look like they're doing something. Rather like the way Zac Goldsmith is going to feature soon in a Tory government, as his eco have become a part of the political mainstream.
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Ethnic nalgocrat
Gloval climate change could easily 'threaten' the UK with a severe regime change on the scale of a UK Vichy regime.
But what I'm talking about is more the way that WW2 actually manifested itself for the UK - a crisis that cost tens of thousands of cilvilian lives and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and alslo swallowed up most of these islands' industrial production.
dennisr
the acceptable face
its all happy news on urban 75
frogwoman
Let them eat newts
I dont think that'll happen personaly. If anyone drops a nuke it will be the USA
I do think the USA will eventually have a civil war tho btw resulting in some areas becoming independent - not necessarily with the existing borders - although probably not in the next 20 years, more like the next 50 or something
god its all fun and games
I think we are heading for the sort of scenarios sketched out in the first part of Ken MacLeod's Fall Revolution novels, in his The Execution Channel and The Night Sessions.....
Ken is the Jules Verne/HG Wells of our epoch
That is all assuming the Swine Ebola doesn't get us all 28 Days Later-ish fashion.
Ken is the Jules Verne/HG Wells of our epoch
That is all assuming the Swine Ebola doesn't get us all 28 Days Later-ish fashion.
Tankus
Slowing down to a stop
I dont think that'll happen personaly. If anyone drops a nuke it will be the USA
god its all fun and games
plenty of nukes floating around in the ex russkie 'stans ...... bit of a worry
but if Pakistan politically destabilizes , the nukes will provide easy petro dollars for the new theocracy to establish themselves in their early years ...
more likely the US may be on the receiving end , not the delivery
goosegrease
Cheap fish products here
Fascism or Socialism in 5 years time!
Fuck it. I'm applying for a shot gun licence and start stocking up on ammo now, might even be able to stock up on a few hand guns, cross bows, home made anti personell rockets, explosives and savage dogs.
Gonna start filling my house with bags of rice and pasta and stake out a farm house.
Will have to recruit a few like minded people and when the government falls move in convoy to the farm house, kill the occupants and set up a fortified community run on communistic values.
We will kidnap or kill folk depending on their financial value and, overtime build a sustainable community with the strength to defend it's self and to witch will afford it's citizens a decent way of life, thus attracting vetted recruits to the Autonomous Commonwealth.
Come the glorious day!
Fuck it. I'm applying for a shot gun licence and start stocking up on ammo now, might even be able to stock up on a few hand guns, cross bows, home made anti personell rockets, explosives and savage dogs.
Gonna start filling my house with bags of rice and pasta and stake out a farm house.
Will have to recruit a few like minded people and when the government falls move in convoy to the farm house, kill the occupants and set up a fortified community run on communistic values.
We will kidnap or kill folk depending on their financial value and, overtime build a sustainable community with the strength to defend it's self and to witch will afford it's citizens a decent way of life, thus attracting vetted recruits to the Autonomous Commonwealth.
Come the glorious day!
david dissadent
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Did I wake up in 2003 again?
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
if you had it would be another three years till we'd see you posting here again.Did I wake up in 2003 again?
david dissadent
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I think we are heading for the sort of scenarios sketched out in the first part of Ken MacLeod's Fall Revolution novels, in his The Execution Channel and The Night Sessions.....
Ken is the Jules Verne/HG Wells of our epoch
Ken MacLeod is excellent. Star Fraction is weird he worked at Brunel University so some of the early setting is local.
Pakistan isn't stable. It can't maintain its borders. If the nuclear weapons were likely to change hands the USA and India would be forced to intervene.
The Wicker Man.
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Will the UK soon face another crisis as bad as WW2?
Much worse. 1990s nostalgia.
Tankus
Slowing down to a stop
that's provided they know its happened ....before the bloody thing goes off
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
who's threatening our borders? is the republic of ireland going to invade and take back the six counties?
Basically what Pickman's model wrote. Pakistan's territorial sovereignty. As in Kashmir, especially the land they ceded to China, and the border areas with Afghanistan which the USA keeps bombing.
Thanks. Interesting. Was just reading about this yesterday:
http://www.kitcocasey.com/articles/2847/a-20-year-bear-market?/
http://www.caseyresearch.com/library/articles/2491/
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