It's a good question and I have been thinking about it recently.
I think the biggest challenge is: if civilization does fall, e.g. due to a massive virus outbreak, and not enough people know how to produce industrialized products locally, it's going to be very tough.
So the immediately urgency is to bring some industries back.
I'm thinking of "published designs" for communities which detail the
necessary and sufficient items required for "mostly" self-sustainability.
The hope is to provide guidance for town planning.
A return to local farms, animal labor, barter economics, cooperation, etc.
would be the basis for a model. On the other hand we have a lot more refined
materials readily available such as aluminum, copper, steel, etc.
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It's a good question and I have been thinking about it recently.
I think the biggest challenge is: if civilization does fall, e.g. due to a massive virus outbreak, and not enough people know how to produce industrialized products locally, it's going to be very tough.
So the immediately urgency is to bring some industries back.
I'm thinking of "published designs" for communities which detail the necessary and sufficient items required for "mostly" self-sustainability. The hope is to provide guidance for town planning.
A return to local farms, animal labor, barter economics, cooperation, etc. would be the basis for a model. On the other hand we have a lot more refined materials readily available such as aluminum, copper, steel, etc.
This used to be true historically.