Interview 6

NOAH J.
AGE: 32
OCCUPATION: BOUNCER/SECURITY
EDUCATION LEVEL: TECHNICAL COLLEGE

KM: How do you envision the end of the world?
NJ: Hmm. It’s got to be a war. That or a plague. I’m thinking a war.
KM: War? Who starts it?
NJ: Who starts it? It’s those damn Commies. Who starts it? Probably us. I like the plague thing too though. I know, Bio-chemical.
KM: Probably us, as in the United States?
NJ: No. Us.
KM: As in, human beings?
NJ: Yeah, you know. It’ll probably be the United States. If you ever think of population, and there’s really no population control besides AIDS or natural disasters, we’ll all just be living on top of each other.
KM: So it will be more of a war based on resources?
NJ: Yeah. Natural resources. Not so much oil, but things like clean water. Fertile soil to grow food. Basically kind of like what we’re doing right now anyways.
KM: Why would a plague be interesting?
NJ: Mother earth has to protect herself all of the time. That’s why there’s natural disasters that’s why there’s fires and shit. There’s nothing to really control our population. If there is a plague it’s going to be some nasty shit, and the war would begin out of the fight for clean water and resources for vaccinations.
KM: Would this war ever start otherwise? Other than out of the fight for these resources?
NJ: Well sure, yeah of course it would.
KM: What would be some other reasons?
NJ: A pissing match really. Political shit. Nah I think it’d be mostly political really.
KM: Political as in we’ve got more weapons than you, here they are, BAM!
NJ: That, and it all depends on where it is and what they have. That’s not starting, but in a way it’s already starting. Western powers seeping into each other. Or really it would just come down to needing water and food.
KM: It would be based really on needing the sole necessities to sustain human life?
NJ: Right. That’s on your continent.
KM: So it would be a continental thing? Mexico Canada and the US would turn to South America and fight them for bananas?
NJ: Not so much for their bananas but for their land. It would be a fight for sustainable land then. If they’re not with them then they’re against them. I can see the United States starting it though.
KM: So no four horsemen or anything of the sort?
NJ: It won’t be blatant, but just like before any war there are signs. You just have to know how to read them.