What if you had no electricity
Imagine there was no electricity anywhere in the world from right this moment. What would your life look like, how would you handle it and what negatives, problems, or benefits, do you think you’d encounter? Would it be good or bad?
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So let me share my own view with you what I think the world would be like if there was no electricity. First, there will be no technology, reduce turnover in business, increase in the use of manpower, high error rate, transportation, etc.
Let me break this down...
Lack of technology: Remember, technology requires electricity to invent anything so before anything is invented you need to first think of electricity/power, else nothing can be made we would just go around doing stuff manually. There won't be mobile phones, air condition, electric stoves, in fact there won't be anything. We will all be living in stone age and life will be somewhat difficult for us.
Reduced turnover: Business owners would strive to remain in business if there is no electricity because they will have to spend more. We end up spending more because things has to be done manually you would need to recruit more hands to help with the labor thereby reducing turnover for that period. Take for example a real estate firm when a site is secure or purchase they tend to get tractors to help weed out grass from the surface, now remember there won't be tractors because to produce a tractor you require electricity so all these are not available. So, it require human labour to be able to weed out the grass, and the individual get to be paid at the end of the day thereby reducing TURNOVER.
Photo by Kelly Sikkema from UNSPLASHUse of manpower: Just like I made mention of in the last point, manpower will be highly required in all organizations because there are no computers, no machines, and so on. So, everything would require human labor.
High error rate: Since everything has to be done by human and as we all know that no human is above mistakes, we tend to compute things wrongly, this might cause loss of fund for the organization, or individuals. It may also be difficult to accurately keep track of records the way we use computerized applications to do when their is electricity.
Transportation: Electricity is also pivotal in maintaining, and creating most of the means of transportation that we have in the world. Therefore, lack of electricity can mean a reduction in the means of transportation and we may have to go back to using predominantly road and sea.
Sea:-local boat will be used for short distance maybe to travel to neighboring communities as boat can't travel far.
Road:use of donkey and carriage, horses and foot.
In summary, I don't think anything good can result from not having electricity in the world. It will be a difficult time for everyone. It will make some of our lifestyle that looked seamlessly easy to become pretty complicated.