> Probably no matter what happens, unless the cobalt bombs go off, a few million people will survive, here and there. Arguably that’d at least be a “human soci

> Probably no matter what happens, unless the cobalt bombs go off, a few million people will survive, here and there. Arguably that’d at least be a “human society extinction” event. I find cities of less than about 5 million people uninteresting in terms of having enough of the entertainment and eating out options I enjoy. A planet with a few million people scattered here and there would be incapable of much more than early industrial revolution technology I suspect. I can imagine people building steam engines, but making transistors is beyond that capability of pretty much everyone I know. Perhaps a few million people would get by scavenging electronics left behind by the 5 billion dead, but they’re not going to be running semiconductor fabs and buying new cpu or ram chips. And they’re not going to be mining rare elements and smelting alloys like modern metallurgy. I’m not sure what small and distantly distributed bands/villages of humans trying to find habitable places with productively farmable land would look like, but it doesn’t sound fun to me… I’m old, and _maybe_ I could justify my existence in post climate apocalypse society by being “that guy” who gets other people to carefully remove the wiring harness and everything plugged into it from every abandoned car they come across, and re purposing engine management and entertainment system components into useful computing devices and electrical gadgets, or perhaps by building carburettors and magneto ignition systems to make efi vehicles run on home grown biofuel. But I’d say I’m Rob ably way more likely be killed (and eaten?) as an old person with no useful contribution to the clan.