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Originally Posted by rblover
There are several, but all will be useless...as there won't be anyone left to read them. The Mad Max kind of survival thing won't happen. Anyone who survives the asteroid, nuke war, or whatever, will soon be wiped out by: disease, starvation, murder, war, etc. The event-asteroid/etc-will be followed by an aftermath which will wipe out all event survivors within a month.
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I can agree about the Mad Max thing. But the rest?
If there is an aftermath, survivors after the initial effects, then some will survive. Largely depending on where they live (far away from the immediate effects), how many they are and how prepared they are. City life will most likely go, but subsistence farming may still be possible.
Humanity has most likely been near extionsion before. See for instance the therory about the Toba supereruption.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
And I see my e-library as a possible resource in the aftermath. Not least because it is highly portable and easy to copy. But the readers are still not quite good enough. But they are getting closer ...