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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
In an acute crisis, people are likely to pull together. Lord of the Flies was not written in stone.
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We have plenty of examples of large-scale natural disasters to draw on. Many people pull together. Some are loners because they don't have the social skills to work with others. Some are predators. Mostly, though, people establish communities and rules quickly--but no amount of incredible social coordination will fix the fact that there are millions of people living in an area with food for thousands.
A lot of people would die of starvation. More would die of poison, disease or injury trying to obtain food or water, or consuming whatever they find even though it's spoiled. Following that, more would die of disease because none of our large cities has ways to cope with thousands of dead bodies and no mass transit.
It doesn't matter whether the apocalypse is a meteor, tidal waves, volcanoes, nuclear war, zombies, or alien invasion; if it destroys easy travel by car and the majority of the infrastructure required to get electricity to the public, the result is going to be mass death very quickly.