True enough but a nuclear exchange isn't the only scenario. Economic collapse has also been mentioned. In that scenario I think lessons could be learned from how people survived the Great Depression; many traveled following the work (such as it was) Granted that was a generation of co-operative people who mostly respected one and other.
I agree, and I never noted the nuclear exchange point in isolation, hence why I mentioned the climate issue etc. Although I have my own view on supposed climate change, I firmly believe that there have been solar spots in the past which have been bad enough to create havoc in the modern, computer and electrically driven world as we know it today. I used to have a work colleage whose degree was geology and he had some fascinating theories on the subject.
With regards the economic depression of the 1920's America, I agree, those were kinder times in that God fearing people would always try and respect and share, where possible, with others. However, I read an excellent book many years ago, assembled from the voices of those who lived through it, and a pervasive theme was that even then there was resentment and violence, sometimes in no small measure, to these economic migrants (seen as modern day 'carpetbaggers') who found themselves in areas of work or excess food.
Sadly, the city of London in the blitz of WW2 is another example of challenging times leading to the worst in human nature coming to the fore. Although glorified in popular myth of the 'plucky Londoner', there is a lot of documented and published evidence that points to the very worst of the minority running amok and exploiting the ordinary man and woman. Huge rise in crimes such as looting, sex crime etc. It was so bad, Fairbairn, he of Sykes-Fairbairn fame, had to write a book under sponsorship of the war office for women on how to protect themselves from unwanted attention. I still have a copy on my bookshelf as a historical keepsake.
So, coupling the above with what I have seen with my own eyes some years ago when involed in a disaster relief effort, and allied to the words of a friend who got involved on the ground in Haiti immediately after that event, then mixed with the current selfish and almost moral free society in which we live, I have
very low expectations of my fellow human should the worst, in any form, ever happen.
Fair to say I'd not put my trust in a camper van. Within a week, it'd have the wheels and the fuel stolen from it's immobile shell at the very least.
