You were the one that brought up living like 200 years ago.
I've done that, btw, for over a year, in an unheated shack on the side of a mountain with no commercial electricity and only a manual well for water.
It sucks. You spend all your time surviving from day to day, and get very little time to do anything else.
/johnny
I brought up living
like people lived 200 years ago. We have access to and can stockpile supplies that will significantly improve our lives that were not available 200 years ago, which is what makes your life expectancy bit irrelevant. We can stockpile antibiotics, chemicals to make bleach, things like that. Learning how to provide food for ourselves without industry to provide it is what I meant by living
like people lived 200 years ago, which is why I specifically mentioned animal husbandry. Vegetables will be available much sooner than antibiotics or chemicals when the SHTF, so it seems wise to stockpile the things that will be more precious and more rare.
I've done that, btw, for over a year, in an unheated shack on the side of a mountain with no commercial electricity and only a manual well for water.
I guess, by your estimate, that was before you were 32.