I encourage folks to imagine life without electricity by going through their day, each small step at a time.
That thought experiment encourages people to figure out “solutions” (or partial solutions—the perfect is the enemy of the good) with stuff they can buy _now_.
I have stocked up on candles and lanterns so I can post on Free Republic when there is no electricity.
I actually lived without electricity when I was very young, but people today would not survive without it and that is a fact.
Try to get some of them to actually live off the land and kill and dress an animal, any animal. I have been here for a while and people have always said that can never happen here. Well it has happened here and it will get worse and we will still be saying that could never happen here.