90 Percent Of The World Population Would “Die” If All Electricity Stopped- How Long Would It Take to See The Earth Without Population And How Long Would The Remaining 1% Live?
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The End of the World, Part One
OK, so the power is out; and we presume it isn’t coming back on in the forseeable future. Maybe a solar storm has knocked the grid out, maybe something else has irrevocably damaged it. An EMP from someone’s careless use of a stray nuke, maybe.
Life in the world’s cities, great and lesser, very rapidly becomes very different and a whole lot less pleasant. Not only is there no power, but there’s no communications; the phone and cellphone networks are down as well, partly because there’s no power to run them, partly because their electronics have been fried by the same EMP that knocked out the grid.
There’s no radio or TV, there’s no internet, no power to run computers anyway, or to charge cellphones or anything else. While there are batteries still to be had, some people may be able to use portable radios, and some stations may still be broadcasting on generator power; but the fog of the solar storm means that reception is weak, and patchy at best.
There’s no water or sewerage either, because the treatment plants can’t run without power, and neither can the pumps. Most of these facilities have backup generators, but remote starting systems that depend on radio or other wireless signals to activate them have been toasted. Many are down in basements and cellars, there are no elevators or lights, electronic door locks are frozen shut, and not everybody who knows how to start them manually is able to get to work.
By the end of Day One, frozen food in the supermarkets is starting to go off; and there has already been looting, because without functioning EFTPOS card terminals (no power or communications) people can’t pay for anything anyway.
By Day Two, many people are fleeing the cities; but this is no easy feat, because many of them don’t have cars anymore – their electronic engine management systems are toast because of the EMP, and the likes of keyless entry devices likewise don’t work either. The trains aren’t running, because there’s no power, and even the diesel electrics are laid up because the signals aren’t working and half the staff can’t get to work anyway.
Those who do have fuel in their tanks are better off than those who don’t, because there’s no power to run the pumps at the gas stations; and out on the roads the traffic lights aren’t working. Neither is the GPS, because half the satellites got toasted by the EMP, and the electronic fog means the rest can’t provide a strong enough signal.
By Day Three, fires have broken out; but with no-one to put them out they rage for days and take out entire city blocks. There’s no mains water, no phones, the Fire Brigade radios aren’t working properly, and the roads are gridlocked by accidents and fuel-less vehicles.
Some hospitals are still running on generator power, but again, they are short staffed and the ambulances can’t operate properly. On top of that, they only have supplies on hand to rely on; the entire supply chain has shut down because of the power, phones, roads, and internet not working. When the drugs and food supplies are gone, that’s it. Also, they have the same sewerage issues as everyone else.
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Day Four and hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in burning cities, dehydrated and starving amongst piles of their own filth. Looting and violence is rampant across enitre continents.
Some people have made it to the countryside; but beyond the first wave, small rural communities are unable to absorb the sheer numbers, and as more refugees stream out from their dying Metropolii, country people resort to shooting at them in self-preservation.
Starving people are stealing and killing farm animals for food, and spoiling and wasting most of it because they have no real idea of how to butcher meat, and they’re cooking in stone age conditions over open fires. Living conditions outside the cities are scarcely better than within them. Rivers and streams become running sewers as well as drinking water sources. Disease is rife.
Day Five and millions have succumbed to starvation, dehyrdation, food poisoning, violence, fire, gastroenteritis, and other ills. Medications are running out and there is no functioning health system. Some well-meaning individuals have broken into city zoos and released the animals to prevent them from starving in their cages.
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