Scenario: this island is cut off from the rest of humanity (magic, war, space alien zoo, etc)
Which island is in the best position to maintain its civilization? Industry? Technology?
Scenario: this island is cut off from the rest of humanity (magic, war, space alien zoo, etc)
Which island is in the best position to maintain its civilization? Industry? Technology?
Ireland isn’t bad from a basic survival perspective - massive food surplus and plenty of water - but if we wanted to maintain current living standards, I think we would fall down on power as it stands currently. Plenty of natural wind and tidal power resources that are underutilised.
Just make sure those pesky British stay out of your potatoes
It was our grain that they were taking. The potatoes were attacked by fungus.
I’d say we’d need to make a bunch of biofuels to fill the immediate shortfall to keep tractors moving but as you say we’ve plenty of really good quality land, water, wind. Lots of chemical and medical processing capability once we have the raw ingredients for medicines etc.
Main medium term issue would be mineral and metal mining and processing as we’re short on that but yeah overall think we’d be basically fine.