Governments will be powerless to restore order. People will die. His dark vision is shared by thousands in what may be the largest apocalyptic movement in U.S. history. Although they represent a minority among survivalists,their numbers are growing, and across the country they are buying farms, stockpiling food, and preparing for the day when, they believe, anarchy will be loosed upon the world. Most people think the millennium bug, also known as Y2K, short for year 2000, will cause minor inconveniences, and they dismiss the dark predictions of survivalists as alarmist rhetoric.
Nobody knows whether the survivalists are delusional, dangerous, or the smartest people on earth.
I'm going to live. If you're wrong, you're dead. If you have no food, no power, no sewage, and no water . The time bomb that Milne and others believe will strip away the thin veneer of human civilization and expose the savagery beneath is ticking all around us. What happens next is anybody's guess.