But no doubt farmers do that all the time, to pump water, to grind grain, etc. There are a lot of skills that will be useless, and a lot that we have forgotten, which will be essential for survival. There was also another book in the 70’s, Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered: by EF Schumacher.
Can you smelt iron to make an axe? Make one out of rusting car parts?
How far down towards the Stone Age do you want to go?
And you wont be reading this on the Internet either.
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