What is the most self sufficient island on the planet?
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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?
North Sentinel Island.
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I think Iceland is a strong choice. It has power and rare earth resources
How much grain imports, how much petrol for fishing boats?
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How much grain imports, how much petrol for fishing boats?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]They could probably use some of that thermal energy to power lighting that would grow some veggies and other low-resource plants. Although they probably aren't set up for that today.
ETA: Turns out they are set up to use thermal energy to generate their own food, which actually makes a lot of sense given how resourceful they are as a people.
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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?
Australia easily
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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.
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They could probably use some of that thermal energy to power lighting that would grow some veggies and other low-resource plants. Although they probably aren't set up for that today.
ETA: Turns out they are set up to use thermal energy to generate their own food, which actually makes a lot of sense given how resourceful they are as a people.
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North Sentinel Island.
Yea, they basically already self isolate sooo it'd just be another Tuesday for them lmao
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They could probably use some of that thermal energy to power lighting that would grow some veggies and other low-resource plants. Although they probably aren't set up for that today.
ETA: Turns out they are set up to use thermal energy to generate their own food, which actually makes a lot of sense given how resourceful they are as a people.
https://gastrogays.com/fridheimar-iceland/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varmaland
Cba adding more but they are rather good at it
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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.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Just make sure those pesky British stay out of your potatoes
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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?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]This Island - Very difficult for an invading military to find you. Just don't forget to press the numbers... or else...
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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?
Galapagos (without humans, of course!)
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https://gastrogays.com/fridheimar-iceland/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varmaland
Cba adding more but they are rather good at it
Gastro gays? Sounds wild
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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?
Borneo. Still mostly agricultural but from a survivability POV, even though it would be blasted back to before the Industrial revolution, it's got everything needed.
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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.
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.
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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?
Island of Utopia.
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Gastro gays? Sounds wild
Or just a fancy way to say canibal?
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Island of Utopia.
Outstanding reference. Meanwhile, the rest of us are still on islands where people argue about whether helping each other is economically feasible.
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North Sentinel Island.
Not only would they just continue living as before, they wouldn't even realize something had changed.
I guess you win this game.
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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?
In such scenarios, distance is probably an advantage so I would go with Hawaii if it is an option. There's good diving too.
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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?
Define island. Contiinents are just big islands.
