The world dismantled landlines, phone booths, mail order catalogues, fax machines, tens of millions of storefronts, government offices, and entire industries in favor of the Internet.

So at this point no, the world can most definitely not “just live without the Internet”. And emergency services aren’t the only important thing that exists to the extent that anything else can just be handwaved away.

In my opinion, the world actually should be able to live without the internet, but that's another matter.

That’s what I was getting at. There’s a lot of life that can be lived offline.