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is truly full of great info. This guy was a professor at Brigham Young U. twice a year he'd take 20 people out into the desert, to live like the Paiute Indians did. They'd be out there a month and have to cover 200 miles in search of food and resources. He said it would take the area 6 months to recover from their predations. Which is one of the reason why the people on Naked and Afraid TV shows have such a hard time. They dont move enough, don't know their territory and its resources well enough.
I have a copy of the original edition. You are right. It's a great book. I have a number of books of this sort, plus now I have DVDs. I still enjoy just reading and watching. I find it amazing how ingenious my species is at surviving.
I think sometimes we sell ourselves short. Humanity survives under a wide spectrum of living conditions. I don't believe that humanity will ever just disappear. We are just too adaptable.
Humanity won't just disappear, but I suspect millions of people will starve to death. You can't learn the necessary skills for survival over night, and if you don't know them and practice them, you will be out of luck. Nobody is going to take you under their wing and help you. The Indians did that for the original settlers, teaching them how to plant corn and survive, but that was then and now is now. We are adaptive, but the skills to survive must be learned to be effective. When you stop and think about it, many of us think we are much more capable than we really are. We think because we have read about different techniques we can accomplish those things ourselves. In reality we can't, only reading about how to do something doesn't make it happen. I was raised on a ranch, and I know how to raise livestock and grow a garden, but I'm smart enough to know I would be hard pressed to actually do it well enough to survive with out lots of help..
Does this book just cover the desert? I live in the Blue Ridge and would like to read ideas about surviving in this environment.
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