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posted Sept 2007

http://tsikot.com/forums/miscellaneo...56/index5.html

I was just thinking about what happened in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina left it in ruins.

There was total collapse of infrastructure and law and order. People looted, there was anarchy, the very young and old and sick died...

It made me think how totally dependent we are on man-made infrastructure.

Things we take for granted like indoor plumbing, electricity, roads, telephones, supermarkets, hospitals, law enforcement....

Our ancestors hunt for food and lived in caves. They drank from streams. They can survive on the barest, crudest essentials. We cant. Many people wont even drink tap water.

Our modern civilization is totally dependent on very fragile infrastructure. (remember how uncomfortable life was after Milenyo struck?)

Think about it... our lives are totally dependent on availability of food from the market, grocery and food stores. We buy water from refilling stations. If there are none of these providers, we cant just shift to hunting and drinking from streams. Many people would starve to death.

People are being kept alive by pharmaceutical drugs and doctors and hospitals. If there's no medicine to buy, no doctors to see, no hospitals to go to, many would die.

We need emergency rooms. We need telephones. We need traffic lights. We need all this stuff to live.

The infrastructure is extremely fragile as demonstrated in New Orleans.

Imagine if something like New Orleans happened on a global scale...

We are actually weaker that our caveman ancestors. They didnt need all this stuff to survive.

Though we do live longer now thanks to vaccines and modern meds, our longer lives are dependent on all this man-made infrastructure. If and when something happens to this infrastructure, the human race is screwed.

And that will be the end of the world as we know it.