No oil = No civilization
No electricity = No civilization
No fridge, electric oven, washer/dryer, indoor plumbing, flush toilet, toilet paper, mass produced soap, liquid soap, detergents, bleach, oral hygiene products, HVAC, automobile, auto parts, maintained electric lines, maintained sewers, maintained water lines, sewage treatment facility, water treatment facility, electric substations, transformers, power plants, garbage dumps, garbage pickups, trucks, ships, maintained roadways, plastics, chemicals, cleaning products, modern medicinal supplies, telephones, telephone networks, food stores, food and product distribution centres, postal systems = no civilization.

Can you live without those /pol/?

>>510499587 (OP)
what sort of thing could cause this?

We still got plenty of oil.
We have plenty of ways of generating electricity.
The big issue is that there are certain billionaires that want to "reset" civilization by killing of billions of people.

>>510499587 (OP)
The 21st century has plenty of infrastructure that could be repurposed.
Those child factory workers in the 1800s getting caught in the gears would kill to live in the current year.