Exactly. I laugh at these prepper wannabe types that have this fantasy they are going to head for the woods and go it alone. They will fail and be starving, exhausted, and wet or freezing within days.
How did humans as a species survive and thrive for thousands of years? Go back 5000 years and look at the past, our ancient ancestors have already solved this problem, we just need to look at how they did it.
1. Social and tribal networks = survival. Going it alone = certain death. No single person or small famiy group can survive alone for long. Our ancient ancesters knew this and they survived by forming tribes or small social groups. Division of labor, sharing of multiple resources, more person-power, and greater collective intelligence and problems solving will win every time.
The ability to gather a tribe and use the power of multiple people has always been the most important "tool" for success.
2. Knowledge trumps technology. Having a tool is only good until that tool breaks or you need a different tool.
For example, a freezer and generator is great at preserving food until they break or run out of fuel. Then what? You're hosed. But if you have the knowledge, you can preserve all that food so it doesn't need to be frozen.
3. Food, shelter, water. The more methods you have to provide the 3 essentials, the more successful you will be.
If your only way to stay warm is relying on a generator powering a fossil fuel powered heat source, you're going to fail. If you have multiple sources of heat and heavy clothing / insluated sleeping arrangements, etc, you will have a much bettter chance.
Keep in mind, the Eskimo used to live above the arctic circle where there is almost no wood and they did so all winter and they used almost NO fuel to provide heat. How did they do it? Superior knowledge and the ability to use multiple other methods to stay warm. Better shelters, better clothing, better foods that fight cold, and the knowledge to use all of the above in combination.
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