 In South Africa , the government adopts a <unk> plan drafted by apartheid @-@ era intelligence consultant Paul <unk> . It calls for the establishment of small sanctuaries , leaving large groups of survivors abandoned in special zones in order to distract the undead and allowing those within the main safe zone time to regroup and <unk> . Governments worldwide assume similar plans or relocate the populace to safer foreign territory , such as the attempted complete evacuation of the Japanese archipelago to <unk> . Because zombies freeze solid in severe cold , many civilians in North America flee to the <unk> of northern Canada and the Arctic , where eleven million people die of starvation and <unk> . It is implied that some turn to cannibalism to survive ; further interviews from other sources imply that cannibalism occurred in areas of the United States where food shortages occurred . The three remaining astronauts in the International Space Station survive the war by salvaging supplies from the abandoned Chinese space station and maintain some military and civilian satellites using an orbital fuel station . A surviving member of the <unk> crew describes " mega " <unk> of zombies on the American Great Plains and Central Asia , and how the crisis affected Earth 's atmosphere . 
