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Increasingly, urban high-rise residents are flocking to survival skill camps to learn how to catch game and start fires by rubbing two sticks together.
Climate change fears are spurring more Americans to enroll in survival schools
“If something goes down, if the network goes down, all this modern technology fails us immediately,” said instructor Shane Hobel. “These skills will keep you alive – period.”
August 1, 2021, 6:30 p.m. AEST by Ethan Sacks
Manhattan resident David D’Alessio spent last Saturday building a shelter out of muddy leaves and twigs in a wooded area 120 miles north of New York City.
While wilderness training traditionally attracted outdoor enthusiasts on the Mountain Scout Survival School’s 90-acre site, the musician was among several of the 18 participants who didn’t learn to drink water from a vine or set traps for rabbits to have fun.
These are skills D’Alessio, 49, father of a 6-year-old girl, fears will be inevitable in the years to come – as the effects of climate change continue to intensify.
“It is inevitable that we will face a crisis in our lifetime, in my lifetime, and certainly in my daughter’s lifetime,” he said.
Survivalist school teachers across the country say Americans worried about climate change have an increasing interest in their wilderness and urban disaster preparation courses. With rising temperatures bringing more forest fires, droughts, and destructive storms, these types of courses are no longer the domain of campers and hunters. One of the fastest growing populations in these schools now is young families.
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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/climate-change-fears-spur-more-americans-join-survivalist-schools-n1275474
Healthy outdoor exercise and all of that is probably good for them to get out of their high-rise apartments and experience the great outdoors.
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