Post-Apocalypse: Back to the Stone Age

[Ji ji]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

...However, I think you'd be pretty likely to exterminate the species there. 70 milion 4-year-olds worldwide have to survive to adulthood on their own and then manage to form breeding populations?

4 years old are not totally uncapable. I think that, in an ambient with little natural hazards (like our western world), food supplied for years and years in the form of conserves (these children know what is a supermarket), building to shelter them from cold... A minor part of them can survive enough to become adult, learning to look after themselves.

This story is "luckily, somebody managed to survive". Even if there was the possibility (among every other) that they all died, this just didn't happened ;)