• Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Electricity.
    If you lose electricity most people lose access to:
    Hot water
    Running water (if you have a well)
    Air conditioning
    Indoor heat
    Television
    Internet
    Indoor lighting
    And hot meals if you don’t have gas.

    Losing electricity would cut you off from almost all of your luxuries as we’ve become completely dependent on it over the last century or so.

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        11 months ago

        Not necessarily, you could absolutely survive without electricity, I live in a predominantly Amish area that proves that.
        It just wouldn’t be any fun.

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          11 months ago

          It does take a bit of preparation for the lifestyle that we are not ready for. Ways to store and prepare food, maintain temperatures, get information, illuminate spaces.