alxd of the Story Seed LibraryAug 25, 2023

I find https://www.okdoomer.io/youre-not-going-to-make-it/ to be a nice little essay for all those people who think they can just leave the society during a #climateApocalypse and live #offGrid nicely.

It states again and again: you're not going to make it on your own.

We either build resilience together, as a #solarpunk society and communities, or we won't make it.

Let's not romanticize off-grid, homesteading and bunkers.

One more good line:

"The best kind of prepping is emotional."

You're Not Going to Make It

I read about this one family... They were tired of society. They thought civilization was unraveling. They wanted to live off the grid. Authorities found their mummified remains a few months later. The family died from exposure and malnutrition. They didn't make it. A while back, a prepper tried to

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@alxd The article reminded me of the guy that went to live by himself somewhere in Alaska. They found is body in an abandoned bus. I think there is a book and a movie about it. An article suggested that his last meal poisoned him. The greens were edible in other areas but had too many toxins(?) where he was for the way he had to rely on them. A local community might have taught him to avoid self-poisoning with local plants.
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@bsmall2 @alxd Sorry, this is just one of my pet peeves. Chris McCandless died because he ate a plant that no one at the time knew was toxic, including the guides he consulted. The toxin in question, ODAP, also just so happens to hit young men the hardest. Chris McCandless may have been kinda dumb but the manner in which he died was very much NOT his fault: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-chris-mccandless-died
How Chris McCandless Died

A new paper presents hitherto unknown evidence that appears to close the book on the cause of Christopher McCandless’s death


The New Yorker
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@EponymousBosh The smarter he was the more the story of his death supports the points made in the article at the start of this thread. People can't go it alone, we need community. The rough outlines I read made me think of some lines about the PirahĂŁ...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/16/the-interpreter-2

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The Interpreter

Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language?

The New Yorker
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My guess is thatin order to go "into the wild" people need to specific local knowledge that is built up over generations, and passed along in subtle cultural ways...
> ... they know the usefulness and location of all important plants in their area; they understand the behavior of local animals and how to catch and avoid them; and they can walk into the jungle naked, with no tools or weapons, and walk out three days later with baskets of fruit, nuts, and small game....

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