We better start learning some serious survival skills before it's too late

You wake up in the morning, you open your fridge, and look for an apple. The apple is in the fridge, because a dozen people grew it somewhere across the world, shipped it to your country, and got distributed to the market nearby your home. You passed by the market the day before, and fancied some apples, so you bought some from the seller.

Imagine, in the near future, without these dozen people working indirectly for you. Will you be able to grow some apples yourself?

If you are unable to relate to the apple episode, then consider this: can you live a day without petroleum?

Majority of things we know as they are today were made possible by petroleum. What will happen after it's exhausted?

When we run out of petrol, airplanes and cargo ships will be grounded, unless someone comes up with a renewable energy practical enough for them, and engines running on that energy. If that happens or happened, then this article is invalid and you should stop reading now. Otherwise, move on to next paragraph.

Most food and products are delivered by them across the sea. So, for Malaysians, that's the end of apple and orange supplies, just to mention a couple among the dozen.

We don't really have to look any further away from our own country, actually. Rice, for example, is what we produce locally. Without petrol, will they get delivered to your town, readily available for purchase?

People with horses might be willing to take up the delivery business, to make some money. To supply the entire country, each bag of rice will have to travel hundreds of kilometers.

For average human, hunger can be a motivation enough to rob the delivery parties. To justify the risk, retailers will have to pay a hefty delivery price, which in turn jacks up the price of the goods.

So even if you do get rice in Kuala Lumpur, chances are you will only be able to afford it for a short time.

And I'm quite sure before we even get to the horse-delivery system, Malaysia will be in total chaos and disaster. People will raid shops and malls for food. The mob will overrun law and order by its sheer number, and military personnel will be too busy protecting key assets or royal families.

At this point, Anyone who is not mad or turned into jungle people, the first instinct is to get away to safety. Assume you survived the ordeal and found some uninhabited mountain, which you now claim as home. What's next?

Can you make fire? Do you know what plants or fruits are safe for digestion? Is hunting for meat something you always do in your free time before the apocalypse? Where do you get fresh water?

If you are not Edward Michael "Bear" Grylls, you have a big problem, if unsolved will result in your expiration. Most probably a cold, slow, and torturous starvation.

Think about it. What do you really know about living and surviving? You went to a prestigious college for a degree in computer science, you got a good job at some Forbes 500 company, but when Earth quits petroleum cold turkey, what can you really do with your job title or 4.0 CGPA?