a WORLD WITHOUT ELECTRICITY? can you handle it?

a WORLD WITHOUT ELECTRICITY? - electricity
@nengs10 (3180)
Philippines
April 25, 2007 2:23pm CST
Do you want to live in this kind of world? Will it be a miserable world?
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9 responses
• Australia
27 Feb 12
...WELL WE FARGEN DESERVE IT ANYWAY!!!! If your weak minded and not connected with the earth then yeah it would be horrible, we have evolved along side our planet So i will be happy to be able to live in harmony with it again... Read about human evolution and human behavioral science and then look at the great apes as a comparison to ourselves, we are animals, inteligent but only on a playing field created by us.. Back in the wild alot of us would just perish....But it would be a relief for our planet and all the other animals here that have just as much right to it as we do... Our feeling of control and our confidence as the "Dominant" animal on this planet is just an illusion.
@yuanchang (474)
• Philippines
27 Jun 07
well i do not want to live in a world without electricity. because of the fact that i am already used to it. it will be really miserable to live in a tropcial country without electric ventilation. the world will be a darker place to live with during the nights. :(
@tentwo67 (3382)
• United States
25 Jun 07
If I had never known a world with electricity, it would be an entirely different thing. You just deal with what you know. Now that I know a world with electricity, I cannot imagine living without it. And I live in hurricane country, so I have had long stretches of time without electricity, after Hurricanes Frederic and Ivan and Katrina. It is awful to be without it, particularly since those storm times are so warm and uncomfortable.
@lightningMD (5931)
• United States
25 Apr 07
I think I could do it. We live in an area with lots of Amish. I often think I would like to live like they do. No light bills,no high gas prices,no heating bills. I think It would nice and comfy cozy to eat by candlelight and cook on the wood stove. I often wash my clothes by hand when I have no quarters for the machine so that wouldnt bother me either. I would love to give it a try.
@Nardz13 (5055)
• New Zealand
26 Apr 07
Hi nengs, Yeah I could live without power, its not impossible anyway, its just really hard work and sacrifice. Why I say this, is because my mom raised us for five years on family land which had no power at all. Life was hard to adjust too, especially prior to moving to family land, we as teenagers were use to power and power based things. If we were to live like that again, I know we would be alright, it'll be just so much hard work and alot of sacrifice for the all.
@vjr_1979 (132)
• Romania
25 Apr 07
I couldn't imagine living without electricity. All that surrounds us is based on that, elevators, illumination, transport. I hope I won't live the day when the humanity will return to stone age.
@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
25 Apr 07
I couldn't even imagine it. I think it would be miserable but I would probably get use to it if I had too.
@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
25 Apr 07
When I travel I can happily handle not having electricity. But at home I am too used to having it. I can't imagine not having a fridge to keep food cool or a freezer to keep food very cold. My computer would not work nor would my stereo. Washing my clothes by hand would take so much longer if I couldn't use my washing machine. Lighting in my home would have to be candles. Oh, yes, it would be a very miserable world indeed!
• Malaysia
25 Apr 07
i think it's kind of impossible to live in such world.. it won't be that miserable i think.. since last time we don't have electricity too..Ever since the discovery of electricity, many advances in technology have changed the very way we conduct our lifestyles.... Without electricity, technology as we know it today would be non-existent.... The use of electrical impulse in medicine and electrical charge technologies are still being perfected to this day..Most people visually remember the discovery of electricity from the stories of Benjamin Franklin’s world-renowned kite-flying experiment in the middle of a thunderstorm.... What Franklin discovered was static electricity, a usually harmless yet potentially dangerous form of electrical charge.... Had it not been for the shelter Franklin was standing under, the dry length of string would have been wet and Franklin most likely would have been killed...we're so lucky that we manage to discover electricity and continue to advance =).. isn't that true?