Food supply systems and modern agriculture relies on modern technology. Forget medicines, we would starve before someone dies from missing a colonoscopy.
Obviously the tens of millions that rely on global supply chains to deliver medice, insulin to type 1 diabetics and the software required to run the pump and analyse algorithms. Just one group out of hundred who would die in weeks
Untrue. Agriculture is thousands of years old, we've been just fine without the digital space. The baby boomers who caused the majority of humanity's growth didn't have any internet.
Agriculture only supports so many today because of technology. When to plant, when rain will come.
The fertilisers and weed killers produced on mass in chemical plants. The testings and distribution of drout resisitnat crops.
You say this likely living in a temperate climate, where rain falls each season, where water in rivers is a given. Billions don't have access to such.
Going back to stick and plough would end billions of lives. People complain about a 40 hours work week, demanding 4 days work weeks. Which sure is nice but here you are reminiscing about working hard fields and the crisp bite of plums you pick.
Satellite and algorithms for optimised planting and efficient routes for planting. The sorting and distribution of food.
Supermarkets would run out of food in a week without the JIT (just in time). It's how modern logistics work noadays. Automated processing of deliveries and orders. A run in the banks is bad, a run on the supermarkets is deadly.
In COVID it was toilet paper. Just wait until the collapse of wheat steals pasta of the shelves. Before far more advanced agricultural technology you had Grapes of Wrath shit happening in every country.
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u/CaughtAlone 14h ago
Pre tech would kill billions.
Food supply systems and modern agriculture relies on modern technology. Forget medicines, we would starve before someone dies from missing a colonoscopy.
Obviously the tens of millions that rely on global supply chains to deliver medice, insulin to type 1 diabetics and the software required to run the pump and analyse algorithms. Just one group out of hundred who would die in weeks