How did we survive before electricity? How do millions of third world people live without nearly comparable infrastructure?
But that will end. We have been blessed , we never have.
The answer to both questions is: When you live on a farm, you don't need much infrastructure.
Up until 150 years ago, pretty much everyone lived on a farm. Much of the world still survives on subsistence-level agriculture. They don't need electricity.
But the 7 million yuppies living in NYC? No power? No water? No restaurants? They'd be hurting.
Thanks for the warm reception, Free Republic.
Without infrastructure - no trucks delivering food, no drinking water, etc., how long before people start dying of disease? How effective will hospitals be? Sure, many of us would survive, but how would we get to eat when the grocery stores are empty? How will the police get to protect people when their cars won’t start, and the fire engines won’t start? Overstated? Who knows? And Iran just launched a satellite, so they now have ICBM capability. Plus, he mentioned that there were alternative means of delivery that would be much more difficult to stop. And Barack Hussein Obama won’t fund “unproven missile defense systems” so who’ll be protecting us?