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Yup let's return to the trees Nah no chance
Debate Score:7
Arguments:7
Total Votes:10
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Would humans survive in the wild?

Yup let's return to the trees

Side Score: 4
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Nah no chance

Side Score: 3
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Yes. Because they already have.

European culture is only one of a variety of succesful cultures, and is relatively recent. For example, the Australian Indigenous survived very succesfully in the wild for many, many years. Knowledge such as this already exists, so in the event of us returning from the trees, what would prevent us from using this knowledge to survive?

Side: Yup let's return to the trees
1 point

Obviously most people would die very quickly. Most folks who live in cities, wouldn't be able to get food that does not come pre packaged. probably 80-90% of people who live in cities would die within two months, according to some estimates.

We can look at current starvation, disease, and infant mortality rates, even in developing nations, where people are not as far removed from pre industrial survival and subsistence strategies, and see how ill-equipped people are to make their own ways to survive.

However, after enough people die, those who know how to do things like bow hunting and trapping (and making bows, arrows and traps) would have a fair chance of returning to the wild and surviving for a while, at least..

All anybody has to do to see how hard it would be is watch a couple episodes of Naked and Afraid and Alone to know that even those people would have an extremely difficult time, and ultimately most would die, primarily by starvation, infected cuts and scrapes, and dysentery.

Nature would, however, select out for the fittest. Out of a population of over seven billion, at least some would meet the genetic requirements for resilient immune systems, efficient metabolism, strength, speed, reflexes, etc. to be able to live long enough to reproduce and teach survival tactics to their offspring.

The brightest spots for human survival are the primitive peoples who never stopped living in the wild. They will keep doing just fine.

Side: Yup let's return to the trees
0 points

''HAVE TO'' is a great master.

Our hard-wired survival instincts would kick in if we found ourselves having to endure the harshness of the wild.

If the Bongos with their primitive brains can get by, then we whites with our superior intellect, self reliance and innovative characteristics would find it comparatively easy.

Side: Yup let's return to the trees
HungryHippo(45) Clarified
1 point

That's racist I'm banning you and reporting you mate. I do not tolerate racism.

Side: Yup let's return to the trees
1 point

Almost mone of the humans of alive would be survivang in today. They are domesticated into the easy life of modern with weakened immune systems and slow bodies and brains from the sugar and chemtrails. Only the peoples who are already living in the natural would be much of a chance for not dying. These are why human should live less dependant on the modern systems even if they have many moneys, you are making the vulnerable should these system fail you.

Side: Nah no chance
1 point

Rather than going back to nature most civilized people would prefer to go back to their hotel suites.

I mean, the flies, the snakes, the man eating carnivores and those dreadful Bongo villages with their open sewers and disease, ahh.

Side: Nah no chance
1 point

Modern humans without modern tools? I'm skeptical that the majority would, given their complete lack of survival skills.

Side: Nah no chance