Question Earthority!

“Less than a century after electricity became cheap and reliable, we live as if the power will never go out. I hope it never does in a catastrophic way. But should the worst happen, I think most of us are not just unprepared, we’re living in homes that would be little more than uninhabitable caves. That’s not to say I want to transfer my family to some pre-technological cottage where we’ll pump our water by hand and bake our goods in a wood-burning hearth just so I’ll be prepared for post-apocalyptic life. The fact that I set up a computer and restored my Internet connection before tackling that tree shows where my priorities lie.” (07/21/08)