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30 years is an underestimate. Homo sapiens have been around 350,000 years. We've only had indoor plumbing for the last 200 or so. It took 349,800 years for us
by omar_a1 7y ago
30 years is an underestimate. Homo sapiens have been around 350,000 years. We've only had indoor plumbing for the last 200 or so.
It took 349,800 years for us to install a toilet. Constructing a pyramid took 346,000 years. Granted, the survivors of climate disaster will have the benefit of legacy technology, but surviving in these new conditions well enough to create a society capable of widescale adaptation of our current society's abilities will take several thousand years at best. As they say, Rome wasn't built in a day.
- krapp 7y ago>We've only had indoor plumbing for the last 200 or so. Ancient Rome had indoor plumbing. What they didn't have is an industrial manufacturing base or the scientific insight that would have made sanitation effective. Those innovations are definitely recent, and something we could lose in a generation or two.
- omar_a1 7y agoOh, I stand corrected: Indoor plumbing will only take 347,000 years.