WHAT IF YOU ARE THE LAST PERSON ON EARTH?

WHAT IF YOU ARE THE LAST PERSON ON EARTH?

where did everybody go zombies? rapture? one big surprise party off the planet? for whatever reason you are the last human on earth so what do you do? eat like a king, move into Buckingham Palace, drive fast, blow things up, be naked all the time, or would you pretend you aren't alone, how long would you last? this is what if and here's how you can survive as the last person on earth, so you wake up one day and find you're the only person left in the world kind of cool right no obligations no rules no limits.

-step 1: enjoy the good things. while you can go for the exotic fruits first if your mangoes and bananas are imported from overseas chances are they'll be hard to come by so eat them while you can and enjoy every last bite.

-step 2: find a secure source of fuel. you might think that with no one stopping you, you could go anywhere but not so fast, all those abandoned cars, boats and planes you see lying around will be useless in about two years when their fuel goes stale, you'll be sticking around but for how long.

-step 3: find a place to live. if water, food, and shelter, are your basic needs, shelter would be the easiest to come by you'd literally have a world of homes to choose from, but be careful where you settle down cities would become dangerous since without proper maintenance they'd start to fall apart pretty quickly, nature's elements rain frost and heat would take their toll rot and mold would become widespread and vegetation would crack through concrete and break through glass but even if you were able to fight back against nature's reclamation of the land all it takes is one bolt of lightning to start a citywide fire and you can't call the fire department, so run for the hills.

-step 4: get yourself some protection, but even the country isn't all that safe first of all there are predators you'd need to defend against wild dogs, feral cats, bears, but you'd only have to worry about them as long as you could still breathe there are more than 400 nuclear power plants in the world and once they're automated safety systems began to fail without human supervision there would be meltdowns across the planet rendering many regions simply uninhabitable. 

-step 5: find some food, in terms of food the city would be your best bet supermarkets have enough canned and frozen food to last you for decades, whereas in the country crops and livestock would start to dwindle without proper care or protection from predators, but if natural is more your style you'd have to go back to the old ways of hunting with a spear or bow since ammunition would be limited and harder to come by maybe you could grow your own little vegetable garden but that would cut into your water resources. 

step 6: it's all about the water, without other humans you'd be without electricity water pumping stations and treatment works would shut down and the fresh water kept in reservoirs would go stale quite quickly you could rely on bottled water and you'd probably have thousands of liters to go through but eventually you'd have to learn how to purify your own. 

-step 7: start learning, you'd have to teach yourself a lot of things but lucky for you, you've got a lot of time on your hands and millions of books out there with all the information you'd need to survive effectively on your own.

-so while it might be hard at first you could technically survive as the last human on earth but would you really want to humans evolved together as social creatures in order to survive we joined forces against hunger and harsh weather and built families and communities to share stories empathize and keep each other happy and healthy human contact has been scientifically proven to build trust and reduce stress so while it's apt to cramp your style be glad it's a small world we need each other more than you think you.