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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 5296326" data-attributes="member: 7883">This is a very good point.  This is something I was thinking of during this discussion.In addition, we, like any other animal, are adapted to live in certain conditions.  Looking at what's happening/happened in Moscow in August, a lot of people died, and one of the things it came down to was air clarity....and...temperature.  When temperatures get over a certain level, people can't cope.  The weak die.  We're just not biologically adapted to live in certain conditions.There are many people who likely wouldn't survive if the food supply system broke down for instance.  And, in certain parts of the world, (like most of my country) many people would die if we had extended power outages in the heart of winter.....not just days.....but months.  Not that humans can't survive in cold climates.  The Inuit show us that they can.  But not everybody has their knowledge.What percentage of people could start a fire?  Given matches?  What about with sticks?  Or by banging rocks together?  What percentage of people still likely know how to make snares, or proper lean-to's or any number of things in survival conditions?  Geeze, I know enough people who can't even tell the cardinal directions of the compass.As a society, we have lots of information at our fingertips, but I think that the specialized training so many of us receive in order to fill our specific roles in society means that general knowledge that might be important in situations where we didn't have our computers, transportation systems etc. goes by the wayside.Of course, those who *do* possess these skills could always teach others in the event that it became necessary.  But could it be done in sufficient numbers quickly enough if there was a collapse?Hopefully this never really becomes an issue.Banshee</blockquote>

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