Posted 18 November 2014 - 09:32 AM
Yeah, I know that realistic planning for disasters is scary. I know that climate change and peak oil seems like something we will magically "solve" and we will be able to rely on just-on-time delivery of food from around the globe forever. In your magical happy-land where a major disaster affects only Vancouver Island but leaves the entire Salish Sea untouched and available to assist we can certainly expect aerial drones to drop pizza and beer to every person who needs it.
Care to point to any disaster in the world, since the beginning of mankind, that has affected an area even remotely close to the size of this Island?
I have absolutely no interest in "preparing" for an event that will not only never take place in our lifetimes, but not in our grandkid's kid's lifetimes.
Our airforce has over a dozen C-130 planes, based in Ontario. If just one of those landed every hour on the Island, that would have enough food for us all. But well before that is even set up, entrepreneurs would have food coming here by many other means.
This is such a non-issue.
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><em><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"I don’t need a middle person in my pizza slice transaction" <strong>- zoomer, April 17, 2018</strong></span></em></span>