Timeline for Could an American state survive nuclear war?
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 11:03 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Oct 10, 2019 at 21:04 | comment | added | msouth | In fact we could just implement a plague to deal with the population issue people are so worried about. | |
| Oct 10, 2019 at 15:22 | comment | added | Fattie | One thing Head, note that (literally) one century ago we had superb, amazing, logistics and systems. Victorian trains ran faster than the present day, we still live off Victorian-era systems such as sewer systems. If you go back to Ye Olden Times, it was completely commonplace that the odd 70% of all humans would die due to a simple plague. | |
| Oct 10, 2019 at 14:25 | comment | added | elPolloLoco | Not if they are amish. | |
| Oct 10, 2019 at 11:12 | comment | added | Headcrab | It is unclear what does OP mean by "still survive (even if barely)". Keep functioning as if nothing happened? Definitely not, even if that state's energy needs were 100% covered by solar panels and wind farms - those will need to be replaces, eventually, and that means complex technologies and rare resources (plastics, rare metal, electronics etc.), and that means logistic chains that no longer exist. Most probably, that state won't even be able to maintain its pre-war population - with agriculture efficiency falling to medieval level (probably even lower in the first year or two). | |
| Oct 10, 2019 at 10:14 | comment | added | Separatrix | Survivalism and living off the land is about the individual and everyone else can go hang. It has nothing to do with keeping the whole town alive. | |
| Oct 10, 2019 at 7:56 | comment | added | Christian Sauer | Yes, they survived but they ware way less of them and they dependet on 18/19th century infrastructure. What they WILL have is a disfunctional 21th infrastructure, which is largely useless or will fail soon. A band of vikings / hunther gatherers could survive, but modern people do not have those skills. Some modern people will survive thorugh luck and fast learning, but it will be a few percent at most. Simply because with agriculture there is nothing which can sustain a lot of people | |
| Oct 10, 2019 at 7:08 | comment | added | Headcrab | No robot factories, no electricity, no sophisticated transport... isn't that how most of our ancestors were living just about one century ago? (spoiler: they survived) | |
| Oct 9, 2019 at 16:37 | history | answered | Fattie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |