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You'll be alone without any supplies when the next ice age hits, no one coming to help, about to die, and only your neighbours to rely on. Can you trust them? Will they share their depleted rations with you? Would you share yours with
them?
Their is no work, no hospitals, no schools. Your home is a tomb buried in hundreds of feet of drifting snow. How far would you be prepared to go to survive. Water will be plentiful, you simply melt the snow. Heat will be more difficult. First you'll have to burn your furniture, and when that runs out, acavenge for other supplies. But so will everyone else. Would you kill your neighbours for a few sticks of firewood?
Would you fight to the death over an old animal carcass to feed your family? Would you endorse cannibalism?
You might consider these insignificant details. It'll never happen.
But we know this event does happen. Look out of the window and picture the above, and understand every living creature has an built in survival instinct.
You won't just give up, I guarantee it. You will fight to the last breath, sacrifice every piece of dignity you've ever been given for a few mouthfuls of food.
Mankind has a propensity for survival, and will do whatever's necessary to sustain his pathetic existence.
The only thing to cling to is the belief things will eventually change, that another body of matter will fuse with the star and heat will return to the solar system.
That body of matter which regenerates the solar system should theoretically be Mercury. But this will present problems in itself . With intense heat permeating the solar system, planet earth will begin to thaw. With so much ice and snow, torrential rains and floods will take over from the Artic like conditions. Temperatures will go from one extreme to the other
before the planet finally settles down. Monsoons, tidal waves, towns and cities will all be laid waste by freak weather patterns.
Temperatures might reach 60, 70, 80 degrees Celsius. If the ice age hasn't claimed you then the tropical temperatures will.
The Solar System.
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