RE: The Post-Technological World.
March 15, 2019 at 11:26 am
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2019 at 11:29 am by Anomalocaris.)
(March 15, 2019 at 6:58 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I don't think hunting will be as important as farming, simply because we're better at farming. The "all natural" farmers will be at a premium. This will be in countries where lo-techs already do that.
Whether hunting or farming dominates depends on the extent to which population collapses.
Post technological farming society requires a global population collapse of maybe 90% from its current technological level. Post technological hunting society requires a global population collapse of maybe 99%.
Without widespread post 1900 transportation and irrigation infrastructure, or pesticide and synthetic fertilizer technology, but with still reasonable stable and peaceful social order, farming might support 1 billion people world wide, tops. Towns can still be numerous, and Cities of up to ~1 million would still be possible, long distance trade can still be voluminous, and reemergence of technological society within a couple of centuries still has a shot.
But hunt might only support a few tens of millions world wide tops. Periodic gatherings of at most a few thousand people would be the apex of social and economic exchange. Long distance trade will be for token goods only. We will be tens of centuries of reemergence of technology as we know it, if at all.