Yep, Cromwell was a piece of work, and so were the English invaders and overlords he set upon Ireland. Bad enough to wipe out a third of the Irish population in a generation.
Mass murder on that scale doesn’t require gas chambers, just drive people out of their homes and off their land for a few winters.
It would be no different today, and it could happen during a grid collapse. In fact, the Irish then were probably hardier, and grew most of their food within a walk of their homes. How about today? How much food grows in your zip code? Area code? If desperate people were fighting over every morsel?
The Cromwell invasion of Ireland and its consequences upon the population should be studied for modern parallels. Instead of English soldiers driving the Irish from their homes to die of starvation, exposure and disease, a grid collapse could cause a similar mass diaspora from the starving and dehydrating cities.
The Thirty Years War happening around the same time on the continent resulted in a similar die-off for similar reasons. Just disrupt the agricultural production over a wide area for a few years, and you have a mass die-off.
Today, nearly all of our food production relies upon an elaborate infrastructure to deliver fuel and chemicals and seeds to farms. Trucks carry the food to a series of plants and finally to our stores. If the grid collapses for even weeks, a modern society can go right off the rails.
"...Just disrupt the agricultural production over a wide area for a few years, and you have a mass die-off..."
"...If the grid collapses for even weeks, a modern society can go right off the rails..."
I respectfully request that you should write more books containing these themes. I'd buy them.
Average folks have no idea the dangers that are coming our way. It's scary when I feel people out for their awareness and preparations-most are ignorant and apathetic.
bttt
Meanwhile the alphabet agencies are controlling 50-75% of the western states, arresting farmers and ranchers, regulating them out of existence.