Is this the worst apocalypse setting? What would you do differently to survive?

if you're busy eating your neighbors to not starve to death or you are busy teaching your kids how to kill themselves before they get murder raped eaten you no longer care about if it was a russian nuke or a meteorite from Klendatu

you're right it is clever. Definitely a meteor. Dunno why the author is spreading volcano fudd when he wrote the book

AHHHHH IS THAT A BRISK -10 WINTER DAY I'M LOSING MY MINNNNND I NEED TO EAT PEEEEEPOOOPEEEPOOOOPLE

I meant there would be be massive population drops each year. The people willing go to go out and get the food and be able to defend it would survive longer than most.

what food moron where the fuck do you think food comes from, if there's no plants there's no beans, if there's no grass there's no cows, WHERE IS THE FOOD COMING FROM

Because people would immediately start hoarding everything they can so there would be people with stockpiles. Did you not see what happened during covid lockdown where everyone started stockpiling everything they could from supermarkets

>stockpiling
>covid
covid didn't shut down the food chain. you wouldn't be able to stock food because we are talking about 10 YEARS WITH ZERO PLANTS OR ANIMALS. not covid being oh you can't get international foods anymore but you still have shelves stocked with local food. covid never shut down the food supply and distribution.

you all need to internalize this simple fact THERE IS NOT CURRENTLY ENOUGH FOOD TO FEED EVEN 50% OF THE CURRENT POPULATION FOR MORE THAN 1 YEAR. THE ONLY REASON IT KEEPS GOING IS BECAUSE IT IS CONSTANTLY STOCKED UP BY NEW FOOD.

There's shitloads of food that wouldn't go bad for decades. Basically everything that's not fresh fruit/vegetables, meat would be fine to eat for years. There are plenty of people living right now who never eat fresh food.

We're all in agreement that the majority would die off in the first few years for one reason or another. The smart and aggressive people would be hoarding and rationing from the start. The dumb fuck would be killing each other for cans at the supermarket while smarter people would head to distribution centres and load up as much as they possibly could before getting out of the city. If you were rationing you could survive for a long. You have to remember that most people would go in to panic mode.

rabbit starvation

>isn't even any trees growing
fuck you pussy thats impossible plants are hardier than humans if theres no plants theres no humans its that simple so your whole story is made up fag fantasy about pederast rape and cannibalism

no gay if there is not enough light for plants to live there is not enough light for humans to live, it would be constant nuclear winter and vitamin d deficiency you would die not live 10 years. try seeing a plant in real life outside the grocery store veggie section for once in your life.

>if theres no plants theres no humans
Yeah so you clearly didn't see the movie you dumb fuck, everyone is dying off, there are no trees growing, there is no grass, there is nothing to eat except the few bits of canned food survivors can manage to scavenge, you are a fucking retard

Well, I'm sure you'll have a very stern conversation with your crops about how they're fucking pussies for not growing after they get dumped on with toxic ash that poisons the soil and no sunlight. That'll work.

Jesus. How stupid are you? This thing IS KILLING ALL HUMANS. It's just doing it slower than with plants, which obviously all either need sunlight to live and can't survive years without it (unlike humans with canned goods) or be parasitic (and also need other plants that do need sunlight). Sunlight is the very basis of life on Earth, and without it, everything slowly dies out. SLOWLY, do you understand? Slowly like the raping remains of humanity in this movie. You fucking idiot.

>it has to be a bot since it was more intelligent than me and I lost my retarded argument

there's literally sunlight in OP's pic

it wasnt -100 everywhere it was above freezing

there's sunlight in the OP

He’s pointing out that the premise of The Road is retarded. And he’s correct.

No it hasn’t.

Why do you think most people are dead by the time of the movie? Dumb fuck.

No, you're just retarded. Stay on your deep sea algae farm. Idiot.

Why do you think everyone looks malnourished and packs of people have resorted to cannibalism?

This dumb moron didn't see that they were still eating small amounts to stay alive.

>there is a 2 week supply on all food for perishables
I guess people haven't been eating perishables for a while, a long while.

The cities would be war zones within a week. I agree but that doesn't mean everyone suddenly dies over night, people are also wide spread. It'd not unrealistic at all that there were still some people holding on 10 years later. That's not even elites and government/military in their bunkers and bases.

Some light is getting though. There's still day and night. It's obviously cold though.

>forgetting vitamins exist
please go outside at least once in your life before nuclear winter blots out the sun. also mass suicides if they were 1% of the population ( in insane, impossible statistic ) would be like 3.5 mil people. if murder was 5% (insane impossible statistic) that would be like 7 mil people. so like lets say 10% of the pop just died, 35 mil, being generous. that leaves like 300 mil people still eating everything they can get their hands on. its IMPOSSIBLE.

>wouldn't be massive drops in the population each year
you dumb gay people die after they eat the food. they sit on their ass in their house and eat all their food until they are driven by hunger to go outside and get raped. so that means all their food is gone. that means there's no food for 10 years. people at the end times don't leave their house full of food to go outside for no reason to hang their assholes out for rape gangs so you can walk by their dead body and eat their food in their kitchen.

It is very likely the majority of people died very quickly either from the direct effect of the event or shortly after, especially in big cities when utilities go down. That's kinda how these things have to play out to work in stories like these, there's not a lot of people left after the first couple of weeks. So you're no longer in a scenario where 100% of the population tries to stay alive but rather a few percent.

ok if everyone except 100 people magically dies instantly then yes its possible there could be some food left, but you'd still probably just freeze to dead

It is very likely the majority of people died very quickly either from the direct effect of the event or shortly after, especially in big cities when utilities go down. That's kinda how these things have to play out to work in stories like these, there's not a lot of people left after the first couple of weeks. So you're no longer in a scenario where 100% of the population tries to stay alive but rather a few percent.

Do you realize that there are countries in the world that go part of their winters wholly without sun? Obviously people can ration large amounts of food.

moron almost everyone is dead by the time the movie takes place

>Why do you think everyone looks malnourished and packs of people have resorted to cannibalism?
I think it’s because the author is an edgy fucker.

They wouldn’t survive for ten years if no plants or animals can survie.

Most of the animals were probably eaten by people over the last decade.

Yeah there probably was something left around here and there. I'm just saying that humans would have eaten pretty much anything they could have gotten their hands on once the shops were empty. I imagine people killing the family pet to keep their children alive for another week. People eating rats, survivalist types fucking off to the woods pretty early on and eating deer. People eating race horses.

I'm talking about once the food people managed to get from the shops was gone and the shelves were bare. Probably a few months after the event people in the suburbs would be eating pets and strays and ducks from local parks.

Don't worry about the ducks, you worry about you

This and I would befriend the crows too if you could so they would bring you shit that you could use, eat, or trade. ez mode baby

The plant life didn't die overnight. Like the other anon said. It's the slow death of thing. You're just acting retarded now

Because people would immediately start hoarding everything they can so there would be people with stockpiles. Did you not see what happened during covid lockdown where everyone started stockpiling everything they could from supermarkets

there are literally countless trees growing in the background of the OP image.

there's plants that grow underground you gay retard, this is why virgins who never go outside shouldn't be allowed to write books. well actually the problem is probably you not the author because you are an autistic gay. you see some stage dressing for a father son drama and start going WOOOOWEEEEEE SHOW ME MORE OF THE SSTAGE PROPS IS THAT A HECKIN VOLCANARINO????!!! when in reality the setting makes no fucking sense

I guess metro 2033 did that. The surface was too contaminated so they could only grow mushrooms underground for food

https://www.proflowers.com/blog/plants-that-dont-need-sun

>indirect sun houseplants that would all die in this scenario can feed me
bro are you retarded? Did you even read that article?

And are those cave plants a viable food source? is there actual nutrients for people in them?

Exactly, and Jesus that poor ribsy looking cow.

you are retarded

Solar panels, short life span, irreplaceable
Wind turbines, short life span, irreplaceable
Generator, fuel and maintenance short lifespan, replaceable parts for a time
Human powered, burning more energy than you are creating.

Congrats you died starving.

Now you're adding in flood mitigation

you know there's like deep sea kelp and algae right retard
YOU KNOW THERES PLANTS WHERE THERES NO SUN RIGHT RETARD

Joyce is gnomish?

Lost tribes, duh.

I just made some shot up to fuck with you, I love Cormac McCarthy lol.

This thread has been full of you or other zoomers saying the stupidest, dismissive shit all thread because that's all you fucks ever bring to the table. Criritsing the evens of this book based on your own retardation like every other thread.

At least you don't pretend you and your ilk aren't all retarded gays.

>muh algae farm
>muh eating house plants
>muh solar greenhouse which will feed my personal army
>muh every single piece of food will be gone within a year
>muh every plant and animal disappeared within a week

>imo
nice walkback gay. Also your opinion is retarded

No really! Outer Dark is my favorite but only because picking Meridian and The Road is so cliche.

nah i am calling you retarded. saying "its just an opinion bro" doesnt protect you from that.
Dont like being called retarded? dont say retarded shit

>it doesn't matter to me
sure bro thats why you are seething over 5 (you)s now. If you dont care jsst close the thread and fuck off

hey i thought you didnt care, yet you cant resist to give a (you). You are liar, seething little kid with stupid opinions. thats why you need to be mocked, to keep your whore mouth at bay

you are not the only retard on this site that needs a good verbal trashing. dont be thirsty (you) whore, ill get to you when i get to you

thats what i thought slut, here is one more (you) for you

n-no u

you derailed perfectly fine thread about McCarthy books and movie adaptations and insisted on your stupidity till thread goes down. you should have taken the discussion route instead of empty insults

then why do you care?

Nope. You're stupid.

90% of hick doomsday preppers have landwhale wives. Every single attractive stacy from their hick town moved to the big city and got squashed by the meteor

have you ever actually met any "prepper" type people? i'm assuming not, since you speak and think like a brown 14 year old urbanite full of microplastics and estrogen.

they met very few considering their journey was months long, most in a single place (cannibals). also, the survivors obviously congregated toward areas what they thought would offer better survival.