ZetaTalk: Aftertime

Note: written prior to July 15, 1995

The Earth will be habitable after the cataclysms, and this is why the
human species has continued through previous cataclysms. Life is
rough, and life is short. The infant mortality is horrific. The strong survive,
and where there is communal cooperation among caring people, the
odds are not really that bad. Habitability varies, depending on location.
The poles shift, the winds shift, volcanic eruptions continue from
activated volcanoes that take some time to settle down. The rains seem
continuous, but plant life does not mind this as much as the mammals
trying to get dry. Diets are not as varied as before, as far as staples go,
but in other regards are more varied. Those who survive learn to eat
everything, including bugs. Bugs are numerous, growing in great
numbers in the humidity, and living off the tissue from the dead, which
seems to be everywhere.
You must expect the habitability to be equivalent to preparation. Where
your government does not inform you of what is coming, and where the
establishment fears panic and disruption more than it fears the
consequences of not informing you - your preparation will suffer.
However, in truth, it will be difficult to prepare. So much will change, and
the change is not under human control.
During past cataclysms the human population was also decimated, but
as primitive conditions prevailed death from earthquake damage was
slight and almost all the survivors were familiar with farming practices.
Housing during past cataclysms was light, made of straw or wood or
cloth as in tents, and this splintered or blew away during earthquakes
rather than landing on and crushing the inhabitants. Unless the humans
were unlucky enough to be in the path of a tidal wave or lava flow or
standing on heaving or hot earth - they survived. Following past
cataclysms the survivors had not much less after the cataclysms than
before, as they had been living a bare survival existence as is. Life

became harder, of course, as one could plant but would find no harvest
and domesticated animals soon died from lack of feed. Fewer and fewer
fish were in the streams, fruit and nut trees failed to bear, and produce
normally harvested from the wild suffered in like manner. The survivors
found themselves faced with having to be resourceful, eating whatever
could be found - bark, bugs, moss, leaves, and on occasion each other.
The coming pole shift will differ from past cataclysms in several respects,
however, all of which will bode ill for the present human populace.
The population is urban, rather than rural. The Industrial Revolution,
which has touched almost every country, has paved the way for a virtual
flip-flop in the proportion of people dedicated to agriculture. In past eras
almost 100% of the populace were farming, but in industrialized
countries mechanized farming allows almost 100% of the population to
be freedfrom this task. These survivors will have almost no concept of
how to live off the land.
Because non-farming occupations are almost invariably physically idle,
the population is soft. Even housekeeping, once exhausting, is slothful
due to modern labor-saving devices. These survivors, out of shape, will
find their soft bodies an unneeded burden during the Aftertime.
High rise buildings or even modern housing will be death traps during
the cataclysms, trapping inhabitants if not crushing them. Where
housing in the past was primarily single story shacks with straw or light
weight roofs, today such a domicile would never be considered.
Housing must be solid, and crowded cities built up, stacking people on
top of one another in buildings that will invariably tumble during the
massive earthquakes that accompany a cataclysm.
Coastal areas are crowded, being considered prime living space and
the populace having been freed from the necessity of farming. Cities of
millions will go under gigantic tidal waves, and none will be found living
when the waters recede.
Man has created poisons and weapons that will be turned against him
during and following the cataclysms. Chemical tanks will explode,

spewing their contents, and an armed populace will find weapons used
to wrench precious food from those without weapons.
Cannibalism will occur where food is so scarce that none is to be found
anywhere, and the young will be taken first. Parents who defend their
young will be killed and eaten also. Where in the past the urge to eat
one another pitted the strong against the strong in battles that seldom
were anything but a standstill, weapons such as hand guns are a great
equalizer. The one with the gun wins. Gunfights will also break out, and
with no law enforcement, with murderous results.
Consequently, we predict that 90% of the population will die as a direct or
indirect result of the cataclysms, with the remainder polarizing due to the
increasing polarization of the spiritual orientations. This Aftertime will be
different, spiritually as well as physically.
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