There will be strong groups, such as you see in science fiction movies, taking what they need from others who are weaker or unprepared.
It will be the age of the warlord, worldwide.
Farmers protecting their crops with guns would be the norm.
In such circumstances, who will have the courage of their convictions, to be a good Christian, Muslim, or Buddhist?
It will take a saintly character to hold on to his beliefs faced with a marauding mob trying to take his precious crops.
Fortunately there will be lots of metal lying around from the abandoned cars and trucks to make weapons from.
The age of the motoring public will finally be over and we might be able to breathe again! Ford and the model T will be history. There will probably be nobody interested in writing history any more. The things you have been taught in order to survive in this civilization will be useless to you. Salvaging alternators and water pumps from cars and putting them to use from wind turbines would be useful knowledge.
A better skill to learn now, would be how to grow crops and harvest them; animal husbandry (what a quaint word), to find water, use simple irrigation schemes, plough with a horse, to make useful things out of what is available, just like your great granddad and grandma used to do. Since I was a child, I’ve had this thing about how to make soap – weird, but finding out how before all the soap is gone from the emptied shops might come in handy.
End of the ‘Industrial age?’
It’s been a very short ‘industrial age’ – a little over a century and a half, a very short time in even the history of humans, and considering the geological age of the earth, it is a mere second by comparison. It will take some time to die down as trains can go back to the coal and steam age, but why would you go anywhere? That was the question asked by the first people who saw a train. The next village is the same as this one, why would we want to go there?
Alternatives?
By the way, there isn’t any alternative to oil power oil distribution networks (gas stations); all renewable sources just do not measure up to the power ratio of 30 to 1 for oil, or for that matter the portability of gas (petrol).
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