The post WW2 sci fi authors had a lot of good predictions…the british ones anyway. I spose they knew what could be lost if you don’t stay aware.

lols … clinging to the infantile delusion that military force can maintain a Fortress NZ.

We should be able to do that MK. But they aren’t as naive as us. They can visualise living on a planet called
Earth entirely different to the vision that others might have. Think of them as having arrived on the Tardis, truly a bunch of Dr Whos.

Try reading some Young Adult sci-fi type books like John Christopher’s – (not the boat, machine, history enthusiast)
https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/john-christopher/206293/
There is The Guardians – Set in the year 2052, the novel depicts a future, authoritarian England divided into two distinct societies: the modern, overpopulated “Conurbs” and the aristocratic, rarefied “County”; the former consists of crowded city districts and all-pervasive technology while the latter is made up of manors and rolling …[and masked authoritarianism.]
The Guardians: John Christopher – Books – Amazon.com
Amazon.com https://www.amazon.com › Guardians-John-Christopher

Don’t be put off that they are written for teenagers. Most of us haven’t gone beyond what we learned at that age. JC makes good points. Easy to read while you wait for planes etc.

Lol. Not without foreign imported oil. Now that our oil refinery has closed, how are all those crops supposed to be harvested, processed and delivered to stores without imported diesel fuel? If there is a major disruption to foreign energy supplies due to war, we are as utterly fucked as everyone else.