Well look at the resources expended ie wasted in WW2 let alone the loss of life and human suffering. Now picture it affecting even more of the world with a much higher population in a world much more interdependent on each other than WW2. Resources are much more scarce now.
How many know how let alone have experience growing their own food without mechanized equipment, modern fertilizer/pesticide/herbicide? How many have their own land to do it on?
IF humans survive the wasted of resources would greatly limit the level of technology would be attainable as the tech need to extract resources and infrastructure to redevelop tech and manufacturing would be hard to redevelop.
S.M. Stirling has a series, The Change which explores the idea of a sudden loss of modern tech and its affects on the survivors. IE., what happens i higher order energy reactions stop happening such as internal combustion stops, electrical power, explosives. It makes for a good and sobering read.
- Everyone uses nukes and everyone dies. Only 12 stations in space survive. They combine and form the Ark. They blow up the 13th station containing a updated version of ALIE, a AI which was the one who made everyone use nukes. The Ark has oxygen issues. They send 100 teenage prisoners to the ground 97 years after to see if it’s inhabitable. They find people, they call Grounders, with old technology, Swords, Spears, Bow and Arrows, etc. They are being hunted. They are apparently in Grounder Territory. The Ark lands and they establish a base. a US Military Bunker holding the POTUS now takes the remaining 48 prisoner. Mount Weather gets exterminated by The Arkadians. ALIE mind controls everyone and eventually gets defeated by a computer virus. Nuclear power plants around the world start to burn. Only 2% of the earth is left inhabitable. Another Space Station full of Mining Prisoners land 5 years later on that 2% of land. At that time, everyone is in the bunker, 5 people are back on the remains of the Ark Space Station, and 2 people live on that 2% of the land. Season Five comes out April 24th.
- Everyone decides Nukes aren’t worth it and fight it out the right way until everyone goes bankrupt.
- Everyone decides nukes aren’t worth it and fight it out until they decide it isn’t worth the money.
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