Physical Survival isn't taught in the U.S. like it once was

For example, to understand Geography and what nations have what governments and whether they are friends or foes as governments is a part of survival that needs to be taught to all youngsters in the U.S. That, however, has nothing to do with those peoples. All peoples (not their governments are considered to be the friends of the United States unless they demonstrate by their actions otherwise.

So, in this sense the people of the United States consider all peoples on earth their friends but not necessarily all governments.

Then on a personal level young people need to be taught how to survive in different environments. The assumption being made that people are all going to grow up in cities where cell phones and police will always be there to catch you doesn't even work in big cities let alone in the country where often "NO ONE WILL BE THERE TO CATCH YOU EVER" if you are remote enough without cell phone reception anywhere. So, in these situations it might as well be the 1950s when there were 150 million or so less people in the U.S. than there are now where wilderness was almost everywhere one looked and if you couldn't take care of yourself you were just dead. In the 1950s there was NO helicopter rescue, there was NO cell phone existing other than radio telephones and CBs so if anything happened to you and you couldn't survive or hadn't prepared for whatever you were experiencing you were just dead or maimed and alone and that was it.

This is part of the idea of having a gun in the country when you are in the wilderness off the grid. It's not that you want to shoot people or animals but if you are not prepared literally for ANYTHING there is literally no one that is going to save you unless you are just really lucky even today.

So, I think children and young adults need to be taught more about weather, climate, and what happens various places near or far from cities. Because if you don't know enough to survive in these situations you really have no business being there unless you are trying to commit suicide or something.

So, education as to how to survive literally anything from a nuclear attack to being in the wilderness without water or food with a broken ankle needs to be taught more so more people survive in the future in the wilderness or in suburbia or in the city from almost anything.

Being Forewarned is being forearmed!

By the way the population in the U.S. in 1950 when I was a toddler was 152 million.

United States of America/Population (1950)

152.3 million (1950)

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United States of America

152.3 million
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Sources include: United States Census Bureau, World Bank

[PDF]US Population – 1940 to 2010 - Census Bureau

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/cspan/1940census/CSPAN_1940slides.pdf

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, decennial census of population, 1970 (5-percent sample), 1980 to 2010, 2008 Population Projections, 2020-2042. Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, 1940 Census and 2010 Census.