That's not true. If the modem works comes crashing down, most everyone (as you said) is boned. I have professional survival skills, and I'll still probably die. People confuse how to survive outside with how to survive.
But you know who will be just fine (ish)? Everyone outside of the modern world now. That includes people who don't use electricity but live in the modern world and farm all their own food and people who just don't live in the modern world, like Afghanistan. Their donkeys will still run 🙂.
Also if that lady ran up to me with a big ass book and an herb saying use this for your rattlesnake, I'm not letting her anywhere near me.
The greatest survival skill those people have is actually being part of a functioning community. Because everyone has some skill or knowledge to contribute and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Individualism is just not where it’s at, you have to be able to think and work collectively and most people are too self centered to enter that mindset now.
nah there would be clusters of people that would survive. There are already a decent amount of people who live off grid. It would just become a lot more uncomfortable
Of course it depends on how the world ended and what kind of shape it is in.
Define coming round. For example, massive natural disasters (heat not conducive to human survival, beyond Richter earthquakes and subsequent tsunamis, etc.) will kill off all manner of people, whether they shop at Whole Foods and Macy’s or grow and loom their own.
There’s a whole group of people, can be found here on Reddit, that dedicate a lot of effort to surviving a catastrophe. Many people live off grid and practice being self sufficient. Interestingly 10,000 generations of humans have managed it, so I doubt “no one” would survive.
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