What are the advantages of living and working in a group after a major disaster?
Adam Montella: An individual’s chances of survival in a post-apocalyptic or catastrophic disaster are much less than if they were to band together in small groups or communities, because there’s safety in a community and also different talents within the community. It’s more likely that a group will survive rather than an individual for a number of reasons: safety, security, psychological support and the talents of the group coming together for the survival of the whole. Question: What about the loss of electrical power? Adam Montella: Electricity, for example, is a commodity or a luxury that we’ve become accustomed to or we’ve come to expect in the United States. If we’re without power for even a half hour and miss our favorite television show, that’s a catastrophe for a lot of people. But in a lot of countries around the world, Third World countries or emerging countries, electricity is not even a luxury. It’s unheard of in some cases. Electricity is something you can survive without
