These crop-related calamities will act in concert to drive up food prices. By the time 2003 rolls around, most people will be struggling to just survive. For most, any thought of escaping big cities and beginning the arduous task of setting up a remote, self sustaining, protected living environment will be next to impossible. In order to survive, people need to prepare ahead of time to survive underground for a number of years following the cataclysms . When food supply problems start showing up, the economy will go south and things will go downhill from there .
Folks lose their jobs, inflation goes through the roof, and people start getting desperate.
You don't want to be scrambling at the last minute . Make provisions now . Spend your money now , while it still has buying power. It will also be necessary to take steps to improve your nutrition and build up your immune system now , before the disease outbreaks occur.