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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (398853)	2/7/2019 2:14:01 PM
From: Graystone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541114

post-apocalyptic movie or I disagree. It would be apocalyptic, not post apocalyptic. It is easy to see that calls for help would go unanswered. My late uncle was the head of a electric utility in a city unaffected by nearby ice-storm, his department went for months on maximum hours offering assistance. I think it would be apocalyptic and heroic, we would cope, not like a movie, no zombies, no asteroidal despair, no nuclear X mutants. There would be pockets of power in many places, martial law, mass suffering. It would be devastating though, truly horrific for the common folk. Most of the wealthy enclaves would lose their cable TV feeds. It isn't that it is a movie scenario, it is just that we built a thing (the grid) with no safety factor. To correct it takes money, we could demand that redundancy and safety, like we do with aircraft manufacturers. Legislating the number of seats available on the cruise ship lifeboats should never have been required. Our interests should be their interests, governments, religions and corporations. My new favourite movie/book theme is going to be "post-scarcity" I am sure, Peter Hamilton, Salvation