What If There Were Only 1,000 People Left on Earth?

with so many amazing things happening in the world today what could possibly go wrong a giant asteroid is barreling on a collision course with earth and life as we know it is on the brink after the smoke clears how do we start over where would we live and what might we do differently this is what if and here's what would happen if there were only 1 000 people on earth with pandemics election scandals and civil unrest worldwide maybe it's time for a do-over a clean slate a fresh beginning with only 1 000 people left on the planet 500 women and 500 men where would we begin first of all we'd need to work together to flourish rebuild society and repopulate the planet we'd need to farm hunt and help each other succeed sounds like a pretty good starting point right okay where would we find the ideal place to build this global village most likely a temperate region that's not subject to huge threats from wildlife or natural disasters let's stay away from the ring of fire because earthquakes would not help our society to rebuild we don't want to live in an area where malaria is common either that's good living in the north like canada especially northern canada would mean surviving intense winters so no how about mediterranean europe it's got a long growing season for food and there aren't as many natural wildlife threats as there are in africa or australia now that we've found the perfect location let's start by meeting our basic survival needs like water food shelter and sleep we have to take care of them first because if people are hungry then socializing learning or working won't be their main priority slowing progress at this stage the people who understand how to take care of the land would be extremely valuable they could teach others how to grow and harvest food these community members would likely be the farmers and the other households would get rations and there could be hunters in the group there should be lots of meat options because animal life would be flourishing around the world without 7.8 billion humans animals would be free to roam wherever they wanted this would also do wonders for our planet [Music] the atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions would eventually level out and plant life would flourish again the earth would finally recover after the centuries of stress due to so many humans okay now that our food is taken care of what about love and belonging we are social beings and we need relationships this includes acceptance at a group family love and intimacy if we don't meet these needs people could become unhappy and even bored how would we divide the work in our smaller pool of humans it could be easier to accept each other as equals as we're all in this global village together we could develop this society with greater equality and balance between the genders or we could revert to more traditional roles for men and women with women of child bearing years forced to have multiple pregnancies similar to the handmaid's tale well uh everything seemed to be going okay until that point still with not too many people to choose from things like love and attraction wouldn't necessarily dictate who you get intimate with and those creepy arrangements could be a thing like some licorice but if you're a fertile man or woman you might be treated better because you're responsible for increasing the population what the hell as we start to repopulate the planet there would be a need for doctors and medical professionals builders and construction workers would also be helpful teachers would be necessary but people would likely start doing internships to learn in such a dramatically different society if someone wanted to be a doctor they could shadow the doctors for several years and learn from experience rather than in a school jobs in this new society may no longer have any cash value and we could see ourselves going into an exchange economy something like i'll help you build your home if you teach my kids to read going back to a cash-based society may take some time and with no global infrastructure to rely upon for a supply chain barter and trade makes sense at least in the short term a 1 000 person community wouldn't guarantee a stable population we'd need to work together to overcome the challenges of living without a modern society the biggest problem would be another disaster happening and wiping out many of this already small population even a sickness could kill many people and leave the community vulnerable and what would happen if all humans suddenly disappeared from earth well that's a story for another what if

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Length: 6min 6sec (366 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 29 2020