Ah.. you Americans always have to have it bigger. Cars .. meals .. earthquakes ..

waist sizes

(joke , i am one to speak, i live in Scotland which is like the most obese country in Europe

Every country is the most obese country in the world. I am sick of it.

Not really -- there are places around the world that have bad things happen a lot worse then we have -- we have a few hurricanes on the east coast, earthquakes on the west coast and tornadoes in the midwest (where I live). I'll bet India gets hit with bad weather a lot worse than we do. Only had one valcano explode in the 48 states in my lifetime that I recall (hawaii has them often).

Cars -- yes they're bigger and they guzzle a lot more petro too

meals -- they are probably bigger which is why we are fatter. If there is ever a world-wide famine we will be the only people on earth who will survive.

yeah, asia gets tsunamis and hurricanes

I think Indonesia is lucky enough to have the most earthquakes, tsunamis and exploding volcanoes.

Depends on the source. If the source of the famine were some kind of blight (disease sense) or devastation upon our fields, we'd probably go down first.

And can it be described as a famine if food is available, but the means to transport it isn't? I was reading a book a while back which had the premise of a massive solar flare hitting the earth, and the difficulty of transporting goods and people without the tech we've become used to was one of the things it touched on.

Yes, the UK earthquake affected me! It sort of forced me to read this thread.