If a child in africa dies every 7 minutes from simple diseases that would cost the developed world 1 dollar to cure, when millions die from hunger when more food is wasted in the USA per DAY than is actually consumed in all of AFRICA in a week, how can we claim that we are good people?
So, I’ve recently been thinking a bit about those tribes of people who you often see living in the wilderness of say, Africa, or in some rain forest secluded from civilization. Do they get diseases? Are they often life-threatening? Have the people grown a tolerance to the diseases, like animals, I guess? If I were to go there and live with them, would the symptoms of a disease specific to that general area be more severe in the case of my catching one? If they were to come here and catch a common cold, would the symptoms be life-threatening for them?
What about those people who wish to live in the wilderness, given they have the survival skills required so that they can live? How would they be able to avoid diseases? Would they just develop a tolerance to any disease around there? Is that possible? Do you think they could survive? I know there are TV shows about living in the wilderness. I haven’t watched many, yet, though and I probably should to get more of a feel for it. Maybe I should go camping.
I’ve always wanted to kind of escape society. The African Wilderness has always attracted me, or the wilderness in general. I really like the idea of a very natural life. I think we, in this society, are overly materialistic and so out of touch with our selves as humans; as animals. I just want to experience it, you know? But there are so many things that really prevent us from doing it. Like diseases. We’d probably die if we got one out there, right?
Maybe I should be one of those African Safari people who study the biodiversity/ecosystem of the wilderness and stuff, so I can get in touch with nature. God, I don’t know what I want to do.
But yeah, back to the question. What about diseases?
Tagged africa, animals, area, bit, Case, civilization, common cold, disease, diseases, forest, living in the wilderness, rain, rain forest, tolerance, tribes, Wild, wilderness
Now before I get ripped on for taking him out of his natural habitat, I rescued him from a beyond disgusting trailer filled with beyond disgusting lice-ridden alcoholics with other neglected pets. I mean these people got their water shut off and their poor dogs had to drink pee out of the toilet. I had to use their bathroom (thankfully I made it out without contracting any diseases) and next to the sink was a tiny cereal bowl full of multi-colored slime. I looked closer and saw a little turtle head poking out of the slime and looking up at me. I was horrified and decided to take him. A week later one of their cats crawled out from under the bed and just died so they figured that it swallowed the turtle and died from it. It was already freezing outside so I figured he wouldn’t have a chance if I let him go. He was only the size of a quarter.
So I’ve had him for a little more than two years now. He’s getting bigger and bigger and I’m wondering if he would live if I let him go back into the wild. I really don’t want to give him to anyone because I won’t know how he’s being taken care of. And the nearest zoo (1 hour away) can’t even affort to pay its workers. They aren’t going to take my snapping turtle. It’s not a problem keeping him here right now but pretty soon I am going to have a pool in my kitchen and my Dad isn’t going to like that. So would he be able to live in the wild? I’m thinking not, because he doesn’t have basic survival skills. If he was born with they’ve been pampered right out of him. Am I right or would he be just fine like everyone is telling me?
If he won’t be able to survive then I am for sure keeping him, don’t worry about that. I’ll just have to figure things out as far as what to keep him in as he grows.
Tagged alcoholics, cats, cereal bowl, diseases, lice, little turtle, natural habitat, pee, pets, poor dogs, slime, snapping turtle, toilet, turtle, turtle head
how do you preserve lunch foods to protect them against diseases?
Tagged diseases, lunch, lunch foods
We’re stretched thin as it is. Now we’re running out of oil. Global conflicts are escalating. Tensions are high. The environment is changing. New diseases are popping up all over the place. There are too many humans on the earth.
We are getting more and more dependent on others, and more and more incompetent at self sufficience.
Does anybody else feel the urge to go join a survivalist retreat somewhere?
SOLVE IT?!?! Are you people kidding me?!?! Do you really have faith that the over-inflated american ego is willing to work together to solve our problems? I don’t.
“No way, we’re tough and rugged individuals and we don’t need any help from anybody body and we ain’t doin that hippie altrism crap.”
Does that kind of attitude sound familiar? That’s the precise attitude that is going to do us in.
Nothing short of a societal collapse will get it through our thick skulls that we are not invincible.
You want me to go up against that kind of attitude to just convince people to come together?
I see your point about the problems with a “retreat” but we have to learn survival skills somewhere.
Tagged ANYBODY, collapse, diseases, Earth, environment, global conflicts, oil, place, societal, societal collapse, tensions
