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by Tade0 1032 days ago
Unless it's a complete wipeout, there will be plenty of bicycles, solar panels and IKEA knives left - that's a significant leg up in rebuilding civilisation.

Before coal there was wood, before oil there was whaling - when the global population is under 1bln, energy isn't much of an issue.

The wars over it though - that would be the tough part.