Prevention is better than cure

It's hard to believe but human beings have visited, worked on and lived in nearly every nook and cranny of the globe. Even the most inhospitable areas there are people able to subsist, though perhaps only temporarily in the harshest of environments. In nearly every environment there are resources with which human beings can survive, though there are differences in the amount of resources.

In our own familiar surroundings, we know exactly how to survive, what we can and cannot do. We don't necessarily appreciate that as survival but it is. Not too long ago, many villagers didn't feel much at ease when they happened to be in a larger town, and city dwellers drew much attention in villages simply by their differing manners. And even nowadays, it's often not too difficult to distinguish between villagers in a town and city dwellers in a village. So, lLearning to survive in an unfamiliar environment is nothing more than learning how to live like the locals. When, however, our environment changes radically because of a natural disaster or war, we might have to learn how to live as our ancestors did 50, 100 or more years ago: less technically advanced and less hurried. Then survival becomes a matter of living consciously.


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