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New Zealand rated best place to survive global societal collapse<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Study citing \u2018perilous state\u2019 of industrial civilisation ranks temperate islands top for resilience<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Bunker repurposed for a US \u2018doomsday\u2019 community. A study proposes that countries able to grow food for their populations, protect their borders from unwanted mass migration and maintain an electrical grid, are best placed to withstand severe shocks.<\/span> Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo\/EPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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New Zealand, Iceland, the UK, Tasmania and Ireland are the places best suited to survive a global collapse of society, according to a study.<\/p>\n

The researchers said human civilisation was \u201cin a perilous state\u201d due to the highly interconnected and energy-intensive society that had developed and the environmental damage this had caused.<\/p>\n

A collapse could arise from shocks, such as a severe financial crisis, the impacts of the climate crisis, destruction of nature, an even worse pandemic than Covid-19 or a combination of these, the scientists said.<\/p>\n

To assess which nations would be most resilient to such a collapse, countries were ranked according to their ability to grow food for their population, protect their borders from unwanted mass migration, and maintain an electrical grid and some manufacturing ability. Islands in temperate regions and mostly with low population densities came out on top.<\/p>\n

The researchers said their study highlighted the factors that nations must improve to increase resilience. They said that a globalised society that prized economic efficiency damaged resilience, and that spare capacity needed to exist in food and other vital sectors.<\/p>\n

Billionaires have been reported to be\u00a0buying land for bunkers in New Zealand<\/a>\u00a0in preparation for an apocalypse. \u201cWe weren\u2019t surprised New Zealand was on our list,\u201d said Prof Aled Jones, at the Global Sustainability Institute, at Anglia Ruskin University, in the UK.<\/p>\n

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