Two sisters and a teenage son moved to a Colorado campsite last July, living off canned food. They had wanted to take a break from a world that distressed them, a local coroner said.
In the show Alone the take away is that fat beats skills. All of the super fit "survival experts" with 5% body fat are being carried out on stretchers in a couple of weeks. The 300lb dude with minimal skills out lasts all of the experts.
The environment just doesn't have enough fat calories available. Skill won't change this.
Can you expand on why fats are harder to acquire? The most immediate method I can think of is from hunting and trapping. Is this very difficult to do from a practical point of view?
Do you know how to hunt or set traps? Do you know how to butcher an animal without nicking a bowel and tainting the meat? Most folks don’t. I know I don’t. I would die if left out in the woods and having to fend for myself.
It's weird to me people who think they could or want to attempt to survive doing those things every. single. day. by themselves. I've done everything you've mentioned, as well as foraged for whatever couldn't kill me or eat me first, bugs included. It's not fun, it's fucking brutal work and you spend most of your day hungry unless you find a good, consistent source of calories and clean water. You're still fucked though if you live anywhere that gets a real winter, break a bone, get an infection, run into an animal that's just as hungry as you are. Humans aren't equipped to survive alone for very long.
Unless you are a skilled and experienced hunter and trapper, game is quite difficult to acquire. Especially if modern hunting and trapping equipment is not available.
If you can’t at the very least identify what mushrooms you can or can not eat in the forest, you should not go out there to live. I 100% can not, so my dumb ass will never try to go live off grid out in the woods. I can’t find food and I acknowledge that. More folks need to realize their limitations.
For most of us, going to live in "the wild" is as preposterous as us returning to the oceans we crawled out of eons ago. We've evolved past that, and are no longer suited for that environment, at least not naturally anyway.
I don't know, man. There are Amazon tribes who do perfectly well without iPhones. I think what you mean is, we, that is, you and me didn't get to learn how to survive in those environments naturally and organically, simply because our societies don't need those skills. But of course we are suited for that environment. We have opposable thumbs!