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How long to rebuild civilisation after an all out nuclear war?
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<blockquote data-quote="Radagast" data-source="post: 75129481" data-attributes="member: 20522"><p>World War Z is an interesting scenario in that the catastrophe <strong>doesn't damage the books </strong>and leaves a lot of <strong>salvageable spare parts</strong>. You have the option of rebuilding rapidly, under the guidance of people who were experts before.</p><p></p><p>For the opposite scenario, consider the "Dragonriders of Pern" fantasy novels of Anne McCaffrey. The background premise is that a space colony gets hit by a major catastrophe that means that everybody is focused on survival. Society is knocked back to a medieval level with guilds. Most knowledge is lost. Surviving writings give clues, but people at a medieval level can't understand the clues.</p><p></p><p>Or, alternatively, consider what it would take to make a developing country self-sustaining in industry and education.</p><p></p><p>Or, indeed, <strong>any </strong>country. Here in Australia, if we were magically cut off from the rest of the world, we could rebuild the steel mills we outsourced to China. We no longer build cars, but people who worked in car factories are still alive. We could restart that easily enough. Aircraft too, probably. Making our own silicon chips would be a lot tougher, and the kind of chip manufacturing plant that the world can only afford two of -- that would be beyond us. We would never be able to mark smartphones. We would probably roll back to the mid-20th century -- and that's with no catastrophe on our own soil!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Radagast, post: 75129481, member: 20522"] World War Z is an interesting scenario in that the catastrophe [B]doesn't damage the books [/B]and leaves a lot of [B]salvageable spare parts[/B]. You have the option of rebuilding rapidly, under the guidance of people who were experts before. For the opposite scenario, consider the "Dragonriders of Pern" fantasy novels of Anne McCaffrey. The background premise is that a space colony gets hit by a major catastrophe that means that everybody is focused on survival. Society is knocked back to a medieval level with guilds. Most knowledge is lost. Surviving writings give clues, but people at a medieval level can't understand the clues. Or, alternatively, consider what it would take to make a developing country self-sustaining in industry and education. Or, indeed, [B]any [/B]country. Here in Australia, if we were magically cut off from the rest of the world, we could rebuild the steel mills we outsourced to China. We no longer build cars, but people who worked in car factories are still alive. We could restart that easily enough. Aircraft too, probably. Making our own silicon chips would be a lot tougher, and the kind of chip manufacturing plant that the world can only afford two of -- that would be beyond us. We would never be able to mark smartphones. We would probably roll back to the mid-20th century -- and that's with no catastrophe on our own soil! [/QUOTE]
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