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LabR@t

LabR@t

LabR@t

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I sit here watching TV, fiddling with my phone, with the lights on. What would life me like if we had to live without electric.
Could you cope?
Would society maintain its veil of civilization?
What would you miss the most?

I think as long as society didn't just go into melt down, I think I would like to think I would adapt quickly to no power. I guess I would miss the basic light we take for granted the most. But to be honest I think society would collapse in no time at all.
 
Civilisation would end inside 2 weeks and it would end up looking like the human survivors from The Walking Dead within a year.
 
Well didn't a lot of our Grandparents live like that or at least for a while, people had wells for water, allotments, chipped in to build each others houses, looked after themeselves with military precision. Ate basic foods, went to bed in the dark and cold, much more etc. My Gran(dead now) was born in around 1910 for example. My Dad can remember bombs being dropped in WW2. People would have to become more community like again to help each other out. Coal would make a comeback - if there is any left, corners shops would make a comeback. Be interesting, but not that long ago people did live like this.
 
jsmoke said:
Well didn't a lot of our Grandparents live like that or at least for a while, people had wells for water, allotments, chipped in to build each others houses, looked after themeselves with military precision. Ate basic foods, went to bed in the dark and cold, much more etc. My Gran(dead now) was born in around 1910 for example. My Dad can remember bombs being dropped in WW2. People would have to become more community like again to help each other out. Coal would make a comeback - if there is any left, corners shops would make a comeback. Be interesting, but not that long ago people did live like this.
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Loads of coal left! Just the dumb asses neglected to maintain the mines
 
Yeah, I'd be fine. I was in the Scouts :)

Jesting aside, I actually go backwoods camping with the kids for 5 days each year with zero electronic devices with as few modern trappings as possible. Basically just sleeping bags, a tarp, an axe, mess tins and a steel.

I'm pretty confident that if push came to shove, we could live like that for an extended period of time.
 
amigafan2003 said:
Jesting aside, I actually go backwoods camping with the kids for 5 days each year with zero electronic devices with as few modern trappings as possible. Basically just sleeping bags, a tarp, an axe, mess tins and a steel.
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How are you going to do for food? Are there animals to hunt? How are you going to cope when everyone else comes to chop down the trees for firewood?
 
Uther said:
Does nobody go camping anymore? The less you have it, the less you miss it.
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Have to admit any recent/future camping means packing a powerful tablet, phone/4G router, some powerbanks and solar panels heh.

I can manage fine without but I wouldn't choose to.
 
Quartz said:
How are you going to do for food? Are there animals to hunt? How are you going to cope when everyone else comes to chop down the trees for firewood?
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Foraging, hunting and growing. As for other people, this is where staking out a plot and protecting/defending it comes in.
 
Lack of heating would be a killer in the winter, most people have central heating these days. People have grown soft, technically we have come so far, but lost a lot in the process.
 
Civilisation as we know it would collapse without electricity. There would be mass panic after a week or so with rioting when peoples own supplies of food run low. Literally everything you do required electricity at some point when it was made or transported to you. Energy is an essential part of hydrating and feeding billions of people; without it we would not have the energy to farm on the scale we do, transport on the scale we do etc etc. People would die of starvation.

I think small scale civilisation would eventually comeback within a decade, but we would essentially be a bit like the middle ages and we would work our way up from there.

Day to day people can survive a camping trip but running an entire country is a bit different!
 
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