https://simplecast.com Don't Eat Me Based on 'How To Survive The Apocalypse Without Eating Anyone' 2017-2026 Mark Webster en Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:35:00 +0000 Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:35:10 +0000 https://dont-eat-me.simplecast.com Don't Eat Me https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/1c58ccd5-fd27-47b4-8aa9-ba769e58b5e4/b36451ac-27db-42f1-a0f6-82ff9085900e/3000x3000/donteatme.jpg?aid=rss_feed https://dont-eat-me.simplecast.com episodic Based on 'How To Survive The Apocalypse Without Eating Anyone' Mark Webster true https://feeds.simplecast.com/vQAe9tcz apocalypse,bunker,community,hope,humanity,people,resilience,survival,zombie Mark Webster markwebsternz@icloud.com d1915380-8caf-4525-ba20-e41fbb11a723 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

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]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:35:00 +0000 markwebsternz@icloud.com (Mark Webster) https://dont-eat-me.simplecast.com/episodes/dont-eat-me-3-oIAxJWiM 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

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]]> Don't Eat Me 3 Mark Webster 00:17:06 Human devastations often follow each other. War leads to impacts that make people susceptible to other conditions as people suffer dislocation, cold and starvation. World War One was followed immediately by the devastating flu epidemic, then the Great Depression, then World War Two. Over three decades of (mostly human-created) awfulness. Human devastations often follow each other. War leads to impacts that make people susceptible to other conditions as people suffer dislocation, cold and starvation. World War One was followed immediately by the devastating flu epidemic, then the Great Depression, then World War Two. Over three decades of (mostly human-created) awfulness. world war two, spanish flu, military, holocaust, jewry, artillery, apocalypse, barrage, carpet bombing, world war one, belief, great depression, influenza false full 3 1 09ff98a9-7fb0-4e93-894e-f5c7ccfeda17 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/

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]]> Wed, 1 Jul 2026 23:50:45 +0000 markwebsternz@icloud.com (Mark Webster) https://dont-eat-me.simplecast.com/episodes/dont-eat-me-2-VgMdKgK6 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/

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]]> Don't Eat Me 2 Mark Webster 00:15:11 The Cathars, the Black Death, Krakatoa and deadly mosquitos The Cathars, the Black Death, Krakatoa and deadly mosquitos true full 2 1 d6754864-13b6-45e0-b3e7-37c3a07f6131 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/

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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/

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]]> Don't Eat Me 1: Apocalypse Mark Webster 00:16:48 An apocalypse is a “very serious event resulting in great destruction and change” (Cambridge Dictionary). Biblically: an imminent cosmic cataclysm in which God destroyed the ruling powers of evil. An apocalypse is a “very serious event resulting in great destruction and change” (Cambridge Dictionary). Biblically: an imminent cosmic cataclysm in which God destroyed the ruling powers of evil. history, climate change, catastrophe, survival, volcano, mongols, genghis, pompeii, humanity, speculation, sapiens, apocalypse, civilisation, collapse, romans, caesar, humans true full 1 1