Younger generations believe that all of the gadgets we rely on are permanent.
We live on shifting tectonic plates, with active volcanoes, in a solar system that's a proven shooting gallery.
Dams, power-plants, and electrical grids are all illusions of permanence. Solar flares, meteors, earthquakes, ice-ages, droughts, floods, gamma ray bursts, and volcanoes happen on a regular basis.
It isn't depressing, and I'm not a prepper...it's just a fact of nature that we live in a cruel and unforgiving universe...and lucked into an unusual period of stability. Most likely...the Midwest of north America, the richest farmland in the world, will become a desert within the next 1000 years...maybe 50, maybe 10,000...it was once an inland sea. One can find shark's teeth in Iowa.
I'm reminded of the statement the Army Corps of Engineers' general made after installing billions of dollars worth of flood control on the Missouri river, "we have finally tamed the 'Mighty Mo'." Twice, since they installed the dam system and spillways in the '30s, it almost burst its banks and regained control of the bottom ground...threatening nuclear power plants and farmland.
...so to answer your question, yes. It would do wonders for a planet full of people who rely on a temporary technological grid to learn what they will experience at some point in their lives...or their children's or grandchildren's lives.
Is it normal that I want to do this as a little experiment
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Younger generations believe that all of the gadgets we rely on are permanent.
We live on shifting tectonic plates, with active volcanoes, in a solar system that's a proven shooting gallery.
Dams, power-plants, and electrical grids are all illusions of permanence. Solar flares, meteors, earthquakes, ice-ages, droughts, floods, gamma ray bursts, and volcanoes happen on a regular basis.
It isn't depressing, and I'm not a prepper...it's just a fact of nature that we live in a cruel and unforgiving universe...and lucked into an unusual period of stability. Most likely...the Midwest of north America, the richest farmland in the world, will become a desert within the next 1000 years...maybe 50, maybe 10,000...it was once an inland sea. One can find shark's teeth in Iowa.
I'm reminded of the statement the Army Corps of Engineers' general made after installing billions of dollars worth of flood control on the Missouri river, "we have finally tamed the 'Mighty Mo'." Twice, since they installed the dam system and spillways in the '30s, it almost burst its banks and regained control of the bottom ground...threatening nuclear power plants and farmland.
...so to answer your question, yes. It would do wonders for a planet full of people who rely on a temporary technological grid to learn what they will experience at some point in their lives...or their children's or grandchildren's lives.