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So, if “food, clothing and shelter” aren’t the basic survival needs, what are? Survival Priorities and the Rule of 3s While the need for food is obvious, it’s not quite so obvious why we need clothing and shelter in order to survive. For another thing, it does nothing to explain why those three items are important. Try and live a few days without water, especially in a hot climate, and you’ll gain a very real understanding of how important water is. For one thing, it leaves water totally out of the picture.
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This idea is great from an archaeological point of view, but it is worthless as advice for surviving. They didn’t look for water, because mankind was always forced by necessity to live near water. As they sifted through the artifacts left behind by those ancient people, the top three things they looked for (to judge the group’s ability to survive in their environment), were how they procured food, made clothing and what they used for shelter. It originates from the scientific study of archaeology and anthropology, where scientists were seeking to understand how ancient man survived. About the best that most people can tell you if you ask them what’s needed in order to survive, is “food, clothing and shelter.”īut that phrase isn’t quite true. Our concerns… or better yet “first world concerns” are over much more esoteric things that the basic needs to survive.
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Those needs are met in ways that are sufficiently under the radar that we’ve pretty much forgotten what they are. That’s because, as a society, we’re far removed from the basic needs of survival. Ask the average person on the street what those things are, and the answers you get probably won’t have anything to do with real survival. That means having an understanding of what will kill us (if we don’t take care of it). This may seem overly simplistic, but if any of us are going to survive, we must have a basic knowledge of what we need to do in order to survive.