Why Wilderness Survival Courses won"t Prepare You for a Crisis
The "back to the land" movement that began in the 60's created a market for wilderness survival courses. As these courses grew in popularity large wilderness survival schools appeared and began teaching primitive skills to aspiring survivalists. Expert woodsmen like Tom Brown Jr. taught their students to build shelters and snares, start fires, track animals, find edible plants and get safe drinking water.
These skills are handy if you're lost on a hiking trip or stranded in a remote location but how much help would they be in a natural disaster, terrorist attack or an economic or social collapse? We're witnessing a worldwide escalation of extreme weather, economic instability, social unrest, contagious diseases and terrorist activity. Since most of us live in a city or suburb our odds of facing a crisis in this environment are far greater than anywhere else.
The industrial revolution has made our lives easier in many ways but it's also created a society that's more vulnerable than ever before. "Just in time" deliveries bring groceries and needed supplies to the stores we frequent but most of them would run out in a few days if transportation stopped. Not long after that we'd see social unrest that the authorities would be helpless to stop.
Since most of us depend on others for the essentials we need to survive, it wouldn't take much to send us over the edge. If you're like most Americans, you rely on convenience foods that need minimal preparation and you don't know how to raise a garden, care for livestock, be your own doctor or defend your family against attack.
These are skills you'll need to get through the coming hard times and there's one more I haven't discussed. The corruption in government and other institutions is at an all time high and knowing how to deal with corrupt government officials and authority figures has become an important survival skill. If martial law were imposed, your weapons, food stocks and anything else the government deems useful could be confiscated without your permission. What would you do then?
An effective survival course will prepare you to survive in place, right where you are. Becoming a refugee when the chips are down is a good way to get yourself killed. Your odds of making it without your supplies and the familiar surroundings of your current environment are generally worse than they'd be if you hunkered down right where you are. That's what a good urban survival course will help you do.
These skills are handy if you're lost on a hiking trip or stranded in a remote location but how much help would they be in a natural disaster, terrorist attack or an economic or social collapse? We're witnessing a worldwide escalation of extreme weather, economic instability, social unrest, contagious diseases and terrorist activity. Since most of us live in a city or suburb our odds of facing a crisis in this environment are far greater than anywhere else.
The industrial revolution has made our lives easier in many ways but it's also created a society that's more vulnerable than ever before. "Just in time" deliveries bring groceries and needed supplies to the stores we frequent but most of them would run out in a few days if transportation stopped. Not long after that we'd see social unrest that the authorities would be helpless to stop.
Since most of us depend on others for the essentials we need to survive, it wouldn't take much to send us over the edge. If you're like most Americans, you rely on convenience foods that need minimal preparation and you don't know how to raise a garden, care for livestock, be your own doctor or defend your family against attack.
These are skills you'll need to get through the coming hard times and there's one more I haven't discussed. The corruption in government and other institutions is at an all time high and knowing how to deal with corrupt government officials and authority figures has become an important survival skill. If martial law were imposed, your weapons, food stocks and anything else the government deems useful could be confiscated without your permission. What would you do then?
An effective survival course will prepare you to survive in place, right where you are. Becoming a refugee when the chips are down is a good way to get yourself killed. Your odds of making it without your supplies and the familiar surroundings of your current environment are generally worse than they'd be if you hunkered down right where you are. That's what a good urban survival course will help you do.
