If all oil, cars, and modern luxuries left right now and you had to survive on the land, could you?

Question

If all oil, cars, and modern luxuries left right now and you had to survive on the land, could you?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

Sure. move to Montana and  have a blast, all on horseback, hunting, fishing a person could want and live off the land easily..

Answer 3

I'm currently studying how to do that now.  It's not easy, especially considering all that is necessary to maintain a somewhat decent lifestyle in the absence of modern luxuries.  No more electricity means no more refrigeration, hence alternate methods of food storage are necessary.  Smoking, drying, canning, are a few of the old ways to preserve food, yet many have forgotten the old ways.

Then there's other necessities aside from food preservation, such as food production, access to drinkable water, shelter, clothing, winter heating, personal hygeine, health and medical needs, etc.  Self defense would also become very important, especially as people became desperate for the necessary items to survive.

It would not be easy, not by a long shot.

Answer 4

yup

i would just round up a bunch of tree huggers and make them my slaves to haul me around in a rickshaw.

Answer 5

Yes.

Answer 6

NO!!!!

Answer 7

Without Oil and Petrol would do . But without Electricity ; I would either boil to or freeze to death .

Answer 8

Yes, why?

Answer 9

Hello

I am ready to live without this. But many people can not live live without Modern Luxuries.

1.Do you I am running Bicycle to save Petrol/To keep my body fit.

2.No Refrigerator/No Washing Machine/No Cooler or AC/no Microvave oven/No mobile/No Credit Card/Not using ferfume/No cream/No Alcohol/No Ice cream/No cooldrinks. I am living Ecofriendly. I do not like to waste Water/Gas/Electricity/Petrol/Diesel/Kero... Metal.

( only Gas Connection is there in my for Cooking. TV is for seeing Discovery Channel/BBC News. tube light for Reading )

3.I know cooking in Pot. I can sleep below a Tree in Day.

4.I am using Coconut oil for my Hair. No Shampoo.

5.Interested to Wear Cotton Shirt/Pant. Cottong Bag for Shopping. Cottong Bedsheet/Pillow for Sleeping.

I can live withour Luxuries and I am spreading Message to Friends/Relatives and others about Simple and Happy Life and ECO Friendly Life

Answer 10

I'd be better off but got to have my meds and computer and refrigerator and heater and bed and I guess I couldn't.

Answer 11

This sounds like my "ammo or toilet paper" question.  Today in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and many bordering states, the high temperature is below zero.  Most of the rest of the country is uncomfortably cold.  Without transportation, heat and electricity, most Americans wouldn't last a week.  Even given a year to prepare, most Americans wouldn't be self sufficient for very long, and that's assuming that a good number of their fellow "survivors" weren't trying to eat them.

Answer 12

If they left right now, where would they go to ?

Answer 13

I could do it if I had to, but right now, I'd probably freeze to death first.

Answer 14

Not easy but definitely doable. Your ancestors manage to survive and so should you be able to. Catch the program survival on Discovery channel...

Answer 15

To answer your question, yes I would get by. I have no question in my mind I would. I would eat well and be fine. I do not want to do it but know I could.

There were so many people who said yes before me I bet atleast one of them was setting on a roof top holding up a "HELP US" sign durring Katrina!

Answer 16

I did for the first 16 years or my life. It takes about 15 acres per person to support that type of existence. 80-90% of the US population would probably die within 2 years.

Answer 17

Don't know about the land, but I could on the water, in fact I have been doing it for a long time, though sometimes I need to earn some money. But if there was nowhere to spend money then it would be a lot easier as that would be one less thing that I would have to worry about...

This is me http://sailingadventure.mysite.orange.co...

Answer 18

Easily, I practically do already. I spend almost half the time out at our land where we have a 100 yr old house with no power no water no gas, no nothing. We live there fine, in winter too. besides that I love to spend time there, If there suddenly were no luxuries, YES, i would easily survive.

Answer 19

I currently do and have been for the last 5 years (since i was 25).

http://www.agua-luna.com/about_us.html

We (my family and myself) do not leave our ranch except about once or twice a year, mainly for travel and vacations.

We raise meat and milk goats, chickens for meat and eggs, ducks for meat and eggs, trap havilina (wild boar pig), rabbit, quail. brew our own beer from home grown products, preserve our fruits, vegetables, etc. smoke and jerky the meat, make our own soap, cheese.

There are no utility lines, no water lines, no roads, tv, cell service, etc. on our ranch. EVERYTHING needed is produced here. All electricity comes from 27 solar panels, 2 main wind gens and a back hydrogen generator if needed (typically we can last 9 days with all luxuries of sunless windless weather, hasn't happened yet). Water is caught and storaged from the rain. Hot water is made with solar batch water heaters with an on-demand hydrogen hot water heater as backup. Even our vehicles use alternative energy (2 hydrogen trucks, 1 EV electric vehicle converted).

As we have no bills,  no mortgage and do not pay taxes (buahaha don't tell anyone) we have little use for money (any extra money saved up usually goes towards vacations as we enjoy traveling to mexico).

Since we have VERY little contact with society we do not get sick (haven't even had a cold in 5 years) IF we ever did or IF someone needed medical attention, my fence line boarder's The Rio Grande where medicine and medical attention is extremely cheap.

If you'd like more info on how you can make the transition easily I've wrote several guides on the subjects to help walk you threw, available at http://www.agua-luna.com/guides.html

feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions,

Dan Martin

Retired Boeing Engineer now living 100% Off-the-Grid with my family, using Alternative Energy & loving every minute.

for more info visit www.agua-luna.com

Answer 20

by bicycle.

Answer 21

Is metal a modern luxury?, How about the synthetic fibers made from oil that 95 % of clothing, string and rope are made from? What about fertilizer made by the Uber process, which is the source of more than 80% of the nitrogen in the world diet?  What about clean water?

Most survivalist strategies depend on hunting/gathering but the pristine earth carrying capacity is apx 100,000,000, and the earth has been so degraded thatit is certainly less than 1/2 of that now.

So for every one person the earth could support without modern ammenities, there would be 130 desperate souls who would do anything to steal the lizard I just caught for dinner.

I could survive even with stone tools but whether or not I could compete is another question.

Answer 22

I probably would suffer greatly.  Not just me, but we, as a society have taken so much for granted and to have to live off the land for survival would be a life altering change.

When I think of the situation in long term,  probably not.

Answer 23

The land could not sustain the population we now have.  So for starters, maybe 75% or 90% of us would die.  The people who survive would have a hard, short life.  (I personally would be dead several times over from broken bones, pnuemonia, high blood pressure, etc.)

Answer 24

Easily,

Answer 25

no doubt i could

Answer 26

I think I would do better than most.  I am a little older at 55, but I have watched enough Survivor to get by..ha ha..

Answer 27

Yes, the life will then be much easier as you don't have to worry about fuel,car insurance and most of all enviroment damage will not occur as it is today. I wish I could live  agrian livesstyle cause those day people were happy with what they had and there was more people togetherness.Nowdays people our society breaking down slowly and there is more trouble in maintaining our livestyles because of economy.

Answer 28

Eat the rich till my potato crop comes in.

The irish potato famine was such a disaster cause 1/2 acre of taters could feed 10-12 people a year.  One just has to really like potatoes.

Answer 29

I would try, and I think I could, but it would be so hard.  You mean like in the 1850s?  30 years ago I would have loved to try.  If I was living back then I would be dead now.

When we used to go camping all the cooking we did was on a wood campfire.

Yeah, I think I could do it.  If my ancestors could, so can I.

Answer 30

surely

Answer 31

Not for very long. And I don't think all the people who answered yes understood the question.