Who do you let in?

[Ingomike]

The living history museums are full of innovative technology we ignore in our energy abundant/electronic bliss. The native americans and our pioneer forefathers did exactly what we are talking about, survived.

Those innovations were great for the small numbers of people they supported back in the day, but they cannot support the number of people on the planet we have today. Those folks came into existence because of the energy systems built to support them, without those systems they cannot survive…

 

[spencer rifle]

Our ancestors also spent MOST of their time just keeping the bellies full. Much more that we are used to. They made a few useful items in season, but when the were not sleeping they were hunting, gathering, cultivating, cutting, preserving, trying to keep the pests at bay, and making tools for hunting, cutting, cultivating, preserving. And fighting. It was not all a bed of roses here before the Europeans arrived.

 

[jake blue]

Our ancestors also spent MOST of their time just keeping the bellies full. Much more that we are used to. They made a few useful items in season, but when the were not sleeping they were hunting, gathering, cultivating, cutting, preserving, trying to keep the pests at bay, and making tools for hunting, cutting, cultivating, preserving. And fighting. It was not all a bed of roses here before the Europeans arrived.

True, basic survival was a full-time job.