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Re:The Scariest, Most Boring Armageddon by JoeAltmaier on Sunday January 31, 2016 @01:26PM (#11007318)
Sure, if you have wire, and magnets, and cement, and electronic controls, and pipe (for hydro). And the tools and processes to make those things.

If we imagine there's some infrastructure remaining, then there'd be a small window of opportunity to rebuild using that, before it decayed. A couple of years maybe.

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Re:The Scariest, Most Boring Armageddon by VLM on Sunday January 31, 2016 @01:50PM (#11007432)
And civil engineers qualified for hydro dam design, and diesel powered bulldozers and cranes, and their operators, and the mechanics and and and...

The bigger picture is not just binary today or 50000 BC, but somewhat more likely getting stuck in weird local minima / local maxima. A lot of peculiarity of USA vs euro lifestyle boils down to just the luck of the draw that we're at one local minima of public transit where they happened to fall into a local maxima, or a zillion other variables.

John Michael Greer's blog has a lot of commentary about realistic lifestyle on the downslope. One common theme is something like the secular Amish.

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