@Shoelip Most zombie myths whether sci-fi or fantasy tend to have zombie “rotting” at a slower rate, made more so when they feed. So, the more densely populated, the more likely they will remain fed and active. I rather just wait them out in the cold where they’ll largely be immobile and starve, let their rigger’ (the reason they move so poorly) and freezing cold brittle their bodies more so until they’re breaking apart just by trying to move. So, sure, you can head to warmer climates where it’s more densely populated and more of them and hope to out last the rate that they’re rotting. Personally, I’d rather go north or into the cold mountains we’re there’s far less of them and more easily dealt with.
@Farmboy To be candid, I don’t care about World War Z’s suppositions (because that’s all any of this is). For instance…
“1. Its 2014 a very large percentage of people live in cities and lots of them have never even been camping much can access the equipment needed to survive in a sub zero climate for extended periods”
That’s largely and almost utterly ignoring what modern man has at their disposal. Hell, there are tents these days anyone can buy that can withstand below zero weather. This is also largely ignoring the adaptability and innate survival awareness many people have. Does this mean everyone will survive or has such intuition? Of course not, that’s a silly assumption. But it is nonsensical to just dismiss near entirely what a person may prove to be capable of in spite of their lack of experience. Adaptation is what enabled the human race to thrive after all. Using the fact people don’t camp that often these days almost feels like a complete cop out to me as to why modern man wouldn’t be able to adapt to the cold like their ancestors had to learn how to do for thousands of years. Again, will everyone be able to? Of course not. But simply dismissing the adaptability of the human race has prove to possess in cold climates, especially with all what modern man has at their disposal just seems silly to me.
“2. The Norse and Inuit peoples may have survived there for long times but they never really had the extensive populations of warmer climates mainly because of limited food. Lots of people would end up starving”
And lots of people are going to wind up being turned into zombies, and the living populations largely wind up scattering into small populaces. There’s your small populations.
“3. Spring will come. Need I say more?”
Actually, yes. Considering that’ll be months away (freezing weather alone up here in Minnesota starts in early fall and ends mid-spring, just because “spring” rolls around out here means a damn thing, less so the further north you go). Which means a much longer starving period for the zombies, which also means a longer period of making their bodies more brittle by the cold, which means the more they try to move in that freezing weather the more they try to force themselves to move combined with their rigger will break them apart. So, yes, just saying “spring will come” much more needs to be said, because in some places way up north, like in Canada or Alaska or in some areas of the Nordic countries–you’d barely even be able to tell there was a spring because there’s still freezing cold blowing through.
“4. You say you watch walking dead. Think back to most of the characters that died. They were usually killed by people. Zombies are a threat but the real problem? Other survivors. And the cold doesn’t stop them as easily.”
Who’s arguing that? I’m talking about keeping the zombie threat as a minimum. But, in turn, given how so many want to run south for “nicer climates”, that only further makes the northern areas less populated, which by simple deduction via the law of averages, dealing with other survivors marauding after you would be more minimal as well.
In fact, that just makes all the more sense of why going north is still the better way to go.
