Luke answers “does it bother anyone that in the 20 years...”

Catherine Goldwyn asked this question about Station Eleven:

does it bother anyone that in the 20 years since these people got slammed and the human race got almost wiped away , no one thought about going to a library and figuring out how to rebuild? I mean, all the information is there - in writing, in books! All of it - for all the ages! For me, this was nagging me the whole time

Luke I forget where I read this, but I read an essay that talked about how the easy and relatively easy sources of coal and Iron have already been largely …moreI forget where I read this, but I read an essay that talked about how the easy and relatively easy sources of coal and Iron have already been largely depleted; and it does take increasingly advanced tech to maintain supplies of these basic building blocks. Coal production now is often entire mountain destruction to get at the deep remaining veins, something that no post apocalyptic society would be able to manage for a very long time. Forests would come back, but the energy produced from wood is too little to support even mid level steam technology. Better to hold our society together than long for a reboot/redo! (less)

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Jcb It wouldn't be realistic to think of firing up a coal power plant. But, stringing a bunch of car batteries together...? ...more
Dec 26, 2018 11:54PM · flag

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