Great article, I love how he isn't afraid to say what he thinks will happen. I'd disagree on some technology-related points however, where, in my opinion, Greer is too 'liberal arts' and not enough 'STEM'.
>steel armor in any quantity is only an option if you’ve got ample supplies of cheap coal to turn into coke; our descendants won’t have that. (For the same reason, they won’t have railroads, since you can’t make steel in sufficient volume for rails without coke, and we’re burning the last scraps of the necessary coal reserves right now.)
This is a good point in itself but wrong. You can make steel with lenses or induction smelters nowadays, and I don't see how insulation, electricity and glassware ALL go away forever. Plus you can salvage the steel we have practically forever, you don't need to take it out of the ground again.
Article really made me think about what tech can/should be saved into the future.
Wonder what nugger (npub159f…vg75) and d (npub15fk…j9gr) think of this, because you guys often talk about preparedness
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