+1 this is the reason why I don't even bother to prep and I laugh at all in Hawaii who does! I dare you to try to protect yourself or your family against 500k-1.3 million starving, angry, and scared people when your isolated in a place which is surrounded by water by at least 2000 miles in every direction!!! I don't care if you have a 10 GE minigun and a warehouse full of ammo and car batteries to run it on, your not making it out alive... I mean lets say you manage kill ever single person on the island trying to get to your food, your still stuck in the middle of no where with no renewable food source and little water!
No renewable food? Little water?
It rains nearly daily on some part of every island. The ocean, and mountains abound with things to eat if you have the skills and tools to obtain them. And the local farmers seem to grow a fair amount of produce, and if agrabuisness shuts down and that land is used for growing staple crops instead of sugar cane... irrigation to most of the lowland fields is gravity fed... no need power to water those crops.
If the right people with the right skills work togeather... we'd do alright.
Before the white man came and helped wipe out the natives, the old hawaiians did a pretty good job of getting by without too much trouble. And from what I understand, they had a pretty large population.
Would it be easy? No... but it could be doable.
Those who can recognize an survive on simple foods and know how to grow raise or hunt them will get by.
Those that expect to get thier food handed to to them in little plastic packages, and think that beef grinds itself to make hamburgers, and that goat isnt a fine eatin' animal will either probably perish, or become field hands for the farmers. I wouldnt mind seeing a few formerly rich guy tourists working in the fields...
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