The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm, Lewis Dartnell (Penguin, 2014). This is not the book I wanted to read. The book I wanted to read was a detailed guide to bootstrapping your way to industrial civilization (or at least antibiotics) if you should happen to be dumped back in, say, the late Bronze Age.
I'm reminded of the book, Earth Abides. Where the main character would like to rebuild civilization based on the past one but realizes that it's not possible or practicable. Can goods and ammo are scarce 30 years after the collapse and they need a better way to acquire food. He decides to show the younger generation a bow and arrow. Thinking it would be efficient for how they now live but also save civilization a lot of time in having to reinvent it.
I'm reminded of the book, Earth Abides. Where the main character would like to rebuild civilization based on the past one but realizes that it's not possible or practicable. Can goods and ammo are scarce 30 years after the collapse and they need a better way to acquire food. He decides to show the younger generation a bow and arrow. Thinking it would be efficient for how they now live but also save civilization a lot of time in having to reinvent it.