If a freak accident caused electricity to cease, would mankind unite for the common good?
A freak solar flare strikes Earth. It’s massive. In hitting our planet, it instantly causes everything that uses electric to stop working. It also causes the Earths magnetic field to fluctuate so none of our "tools" that depend on electric or any of the electric generators will work. This fluctuation lasts years. It means that none of our transport works, so food cannot get to the shops. Canned food is no more. As are ready made meals. Our water sewage plants cease to function, so it is dumped directly in the rivers. Lights don’t work. Hospital treatment is crippled. The stock market is over ~ it relied on electric. Intensive farming is no more, as the machinery used, no longer works. All the information on the internet is lost. Our water supply, stops too, as it had often been pumped to get it to us. Even the solar and wind turbines, no longer work. We had, in essence, put all our eggs in one basket ~ the electric basket…
Could you survive on the knowledge you hold?
We should work together, but would we?
Please, if you have any thoughts on how we would cope, I’d like to hear them.
All answers are appreciated. All thoughts welcome.
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