Do most people lack knowledge to grow and perhaps hunt food?

Question

When the Economy crashes, will a mass amount of people starve becuase lack of knowledge to grow food and perhaps hunt? What will happen when money means nothing and supermarkets no long offer food?

Do most people lack knowledge to grow/hunt food today?

Only a small percentage of farmers and local food producers are left. We as a society depend on imported food.

We are no considered a Global Community now. That means if one country falls, the whole world tumbles down.

Judging from History, and the evidence of money inflasion, there is going to be another Depression. It is going to be much larger than the last one.

Answer 1

Yeah I think so. Most people cannot even eat cold food let alone hunt it..
Money will always mean something but I'd love it if I was to be proven wrong, it would be a good ride I think.
I'd be able to do quite a lot if money was no good, the only problem would be anarchy.
We have had a simple power cut around here and everyone was up in arms already. Especially the asylum seekers, I think in their minds they brought some war back with them. Some of them run shops and they barricated themselves in, I went to buy a beer and was confronted with a 4 feet sword. There was no apparent disorder that I saw, just in their minds.

Answer 2

Well, Stony, I'm not an economist, but my college Econ1A teacher discussed this issue with us at length. While parts of the world will always be dirt-poor, and other parts will always have more than enough, those groups will change over time.

Certainly, there are lots of people who do not know how to plant a tomato, or hunt for game. There are also lots of us who do. Given that a vegetarian diet is very healthy for us, lack of the ability to hunt may not be as serious as the inability to grow. And, even in bad times, people share their knowledge and their stores.

Will we ever get to the place where we no longer use money? Perhaps. If we do, we know from history how to trade to meet our needs. If we do have mass extinctions, there will be an enormous amount of infrastructure remaining for those left behind to use.

Our world, and the people in it, heal well. We built ourselves up from hunter-gatherers to where we are now, we will do it again.

I did a good deal of the landscape architecture major before transferring to art. Landscape architecture is where the future of the world lies. It is the number1 environmental profession, planning for 150 to 300 years in the future. And the call to arms is sustainable agriculture -and all it's forms. So we have an army of professionals to guide us, and hundreds of thousands of backyard gardeners, and organic farmers to pull us up if we fall.

so, do you know how to hunt and grow?

Answer 3

When you look around you and at the technology which has been created from the start of life, how can you doubt for a single second that the ability for people to learn and develop is only limited to creating impressive gadgets and new things?

People have incredible instincts of survival and when it comes down to having to hunt and plant their own food they will develop the skills by trial and error and by observing nature.

Answer 4

Most all of us have a vague idea of agriculture and raising of farm animals. So survival wouldn't be impossible. Just difficult to adjust to. There would be massive fatalities mostly in the inner cities because the available land could not support the population. I doubt any gloom and doom about the economy. We may have a famine, but it will be the result of the environment, not the economy.

Answer 5

I dont know that I agree with the whole emminent depression thing. But, yes most people dont know how to hunt or grow their own food. I'm your typical suburban college type, and I buck hunt, but I couldnt grow anything. Most of my friends dont hunt even. Although I feel confident that I could eat veinison, the harsh Michigan winters would be trouble.

Answer 6

I'm a "city girl" but have learned to grow a vegetable garden, and read about how to kill and skin different animals such as rabbit, squirrel, deer because they are abundant in my area. It would be difficult to make the transition from city living to fend for yourself, but I hope that my knowledge base would give me a fighting chance. When or if money means nothing, we will need to trade skills- once the looting and pillaging are over. I hope those with weapons don't indiscriminately kill those with the skills!

Answer 7

Yes. I think its kind of funny that most people do not know or have essential survival skills anymore. Its kind of wierd if you think about it. A cat or dog or any animal could survive without people to feed it. Could every person do that if for somereason there was no way to get food from a grocery store? Nope.

Answer 8

Yes, i think if people had to forage for there own food, they would be in trouble, but if those same people had to hunt i think we all would be in trouble, giving a person who is untrained in the use of a firearm is a dangerous thing, but on the bright side, Bob Barker would have to worry about telling us to spade or nueter our pets.

Answer 9

Many people do lack those skills. The population on either coast will likely fall dramatically, while the inner states (the more "hill-billyish" states) will probably fair pretty well.

Answer 10

In largely urban countries yes. Fortunately America is not one of these urban countries. The majority of its population lives in a rural area. vast numbers of people will still die but humanity will be far from extinct