How primitive would we become if........
@sugarplum9084 (1771)
United States
July 18, 2008 3:11pm CST
How primitive would we become if there was world wide destruction or illness, which left only 30 humans on the earth, in one general area? How long would it take in your opinion to get to where we are now?
To be honest I think it would take hundreds of years because the majority of people do not know how to create telephone lines, extract metals and create things with them, or extract oil to use for energy. We would be basically cave people, but with some more logic. We would have to scrap everything that we would use everyday, because the general population, except for those great masterminds, know how to make the things we use in our daily lives today. We could do the basics, such as knives, tools, and some daily objects, like brushes, etc., but things dealing with electricity and complex design would possibly take hundreds of years.
What do you think?
3 responses
@sweetpeasmom (1325)
• United States
6 Nov 08
I have been thinking of being prepared for a while now. I want to make sure my kids and family are taken care of.
I started a blog http://preparedforsurvival.blogspot.com where I am sharing all of the stuff that I have been doing to be prepared.
@jonesy123 (3948)
• United States
18 Jul 08
Mmmh, it depends on the resources left. If we still have a library, a powerstation, and general infrastructure left intact, we would do quite well within a few years. I don't think we would live like caveman, even if that would not be in place, more like the first settlers. Without books to guide us, we would have to figure out some of the things again, but electricity, metal extraction, things like that are not rocket science. Unless of course you didn't pay attention in school. Among thirty people you may get enough knowledge together to get to some kind of workable solution. You would be surprised how much you can figure out, if you need to. And how many scrabs of knowledge you gathered even in the short time you have been alive. As long as the basic resources are available, the general comforts of life could be available within a couple of years. A hundred years could get us back to computers, automobiles, and maybe even cell phones. If it was invented once and people know it's possible and know what it looks like and some basic functions of it, it is re-invented much quicker.
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
18 Jul 08
Wow, you make it tough if you're only going to leave 30 people alive!
I think we could pull it off in one hundred years or less once those 30 people do some repopulating. I agree that they wouldn't have most of the technical skills needed to function at the level that we are at now but the knowledge is out there so the survivors would be able to learn and each generation would be able to build upon that knowledge. They'd have to have some pretty large families though in order to do it.
I think we could pull it off in one hundred years or less once those 30 people do some repopulating. I agree that they wouldn't have most of the technical skills needed to function at the level that we are at now but the knowledge is out there so the survivors would be able to learn and each generation would be able to build upon that knowledge. They'd have to have some pretty large families though in order to do it.