Don't Eat Me

Mark Webster

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Based on 'How To Survive The Apocalypse Without Eating Anyone'

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Don't Eat Me 3

Notes and sources The Great War and mortality impacts: Dmitri Jdanov, Evgeny Andreev, Domantas Jasilionis and Vladimir M Shkolnikov of the Max Planck Institute in 2005. Between 1913 and 1918, British men aged 23 showed a 15-16 fold increase in the probability of premature death. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol13/16/13-16.pdf During World War One, in 1916, the Newfoundland Regiment went into action 753 strong; the following day, only 68 answered the roll call – 90% casualty rate, of whom almost half were deceased. In military (and any, actually) terms, this was a catastrophic and devastating loss. http://www.heritage.nf.ca/first-world-war/articles/beaumont-hamel-en.php Written, edited and produced by Mark Webster, original music by kraM Left, plus self-generated & Logic Pro 12 foley, Aotearoa New Zealand 2026

17 min
Jul 1

Don't Eat Me 2

The spread of the Black Death, an epidemic of bubonic plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, was spread by disease-bearing fleas carried in turn by infected rats. Recent research has disputed this. https://www.britannica.com/event/Black-Death The Back Death and HIV http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/10/4/l_104_05.html Tsunami: some countries often have plans to help deal with ‘tidal waves’, such as this one from New Zealand. getthru.govt.nz/disasters/tsunami/ That most dangerous of animals, the mosquito: www.who.int/features/factfiles/malaria/en/ Written, edited and produced by Mark Webster, original music by kraM Left, plus self-generated & Logic Pro 12 foley, Aotearoa New Zealand 2026

15 min
Jun 22

Don't Eat Me 1: Apocalypse

Notes and sources An apocalypse is a “very serious event resulting in great destruction and change” (according to the Cambridge Dictionary) https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/apocalypse A super volcano event possibly resulted in a human population decline of up to 90%, although a group of African early-modern humans nearly 9000kms away managed to thrive in this period, putting the whole thesis into contention. https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/03/these-early-humans-prospered-during-what-should-have-been-a-devastating-volcanic-winter/ According to Yuval Harari in his book Homo Sapiens, there were six species of humans 100,000 years ago. An article by Luke Kemp on the BBC demonstrated a complication of factors contributed to the death of ancient civilisations, including climate change and socio-economic inequity. Kemp defined collapse as a “rapid and enduring loss of population, identity and socio-economic complexity,” although a few of the civilisations in his study recovered and/or transformed. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190218-are-we-on-the-road-to-civilisation-collapse Commentaries on the war in Gaul byJulius Caesar, quoted in A History of Rome by Cary and Scullard (The Macmillan Press Ltd, 3rd Edition 1975), page 262. Pompeii research: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/11/101102/pompeii-mount-vesuvius-science-died-instantly-heat-bodies/ Written, edited and produced by Mark Webster, original music by kraM Left, plus self-generated & Logic Pro 12 foley, Aotearoa New Zealand 2026

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Based on 'How To Survive The Apocalypse Without Eating Anyone'

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