I hope against hope that it won’t come to that but if it does there will quickly cease to be any really sparsely populated areas except those that are so far out that living there would mean going back to the ways of five hundred years ago. I look around at where I live and realize that only someone younger than my wife and I and at LEAST as skilled in the old ways would be able to get away from the crowds. In such a scenario there will be woods full of people trying to kill the last deer, wild hog, rabbit or squirrel and catch the last fish around here. Of course if we had enough canoes loaded up we could start down the creek that fronts our land and proceed down to the river and try to float to some place hidden but then what? Live in the middle of a South Carolina swamp until we die of who knows what? I ain’t Troy Landry.
Your post discusses the problems I have with the “ultimate meltdown” scenario. I don’t expect it to go that hard, but I imagine a world run by a one world government that is a type that seems like a combination of the old USSR and communist China.
When was the last time a great civilization collapsed that it was NOT painful for all involved?