Swagger
Gold Member
I am married to a former scoutmaster and also helped lead a form of survival training for kids in one of my former lives. So yes, learning what plants and critters you can access bare handed is a good thing to know as well as how to build a shelter against the elements, etc. etc. All this is useful for small groups who are stranded in the wild for whatever reason.
But I was just thinking if all the folks in Albuquerque, population around 400,000 or the entire metro area--another couple of hundred thousand--were all out there on the desert trying to live off whatever game is out there, or whatever plants survived during the winter, or fishing the not all that abundant Rio Grande, I just don't see that as feasible.
And then consider the millions of LA, Chicago, New York City, Houston. All of them hunting or fishing or searching for edible plants at the same time? Pretty chaotic wouldn't you think?
Then again, what happens when you and your neighbors are the only ones in the area who prepared and there are roving bands of hungry and desperate people who are coming to take it from you. What do you do?
I simply can't find any good solutions to any of this. Probably we worker ants could take care of a few grasshoppers who didn't prepare, but I just don't see any good scenarios for a long term survival plan unless pretty much everybody participates.
The future belongs to those who prepare. Sadly not everyone bothers to imagine the worst that future could hold, let alone prepare for it.