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by alin23 1582 days ago
Wait.. how are you going to read those ebooks in a post-EMP scenario?
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Using an old technology called paper to print the books before trouble hits.
You won't live long enough to read them. If a strong-enough EMP hits in orbit, it will immediately take out all vehicles and electricity. With that, refrigerated food expires and transport of new food ends as all vehicles and trains have computer chips and should you have a classic car with no chips, the fuel pumps need electricity to operate. Horses and gauge-compatible steam engines are scarce these days, so you'll be left with cans and dry goods like rice, all the while fighting everyone else for access to the diminishing stocks of their personal food supply. The stores will be looted/empty in short order. Basically, almost everyone in an urban population is going to die after cannibalization runs out. Only remote rural farmers might survive.
I'm a remote rural farmer.
Cool what do you grow?
Potato, carrot, turnip, beet, cabbage, broccoli.
Guess we all know where we’re heading post emp, thanks mate!
Yum.
Remote rural farmers with ammunition.
Lots of ammo around here. A significant portion of the population hunts our own moose, rabbits, partridge, etc. I live on an island that's 100,000 sq. km. with fewer than 500k people - half of those live 500km from me.
Nice sounds like a rugged and lovely area.