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You're changing the parameters...
SDAI-Tech1 — (archived)

My proposition was based on a few straggling survivors perhaps a few thousand survivors of some human holocaust - not the entire populaion of San Diego county.

And yes, in such circumstances the survival equation changes drastically. It's easy enough to live in SD without AC or a heater most of the year. But food supplies for the entire population would require importing foodstuff from farmlands elsewhere as is done now.

And yes, not everyone has lawns, but most folks in North County and East county have enough usable soil plots to cultivate. A lot of cooperation would be required to successfully cultivate the land - but again the premise was sustaining just a fraction of the original population.

Incidentally, I do know SD pretty well - I even remember Susan Roesgen (think back several decades to the "cute & upbeat" local newscaster) and when freeway 52 didn't go through to East county but only to 163. I remember when it still was "America's Finest City", long before the Wal-marts arrived. That title is easily up for debate these days, as many of the areas went downhill, even as property values shot up.

Basically, if it were just a few thousand people SD would provide amply in water, food, medicine and shelter. If it's a few million or even half a million - the equation already changes. But with a few million we would be able to fix and operate the electrical power plants.

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