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The further we get from the days of the pioneers, the more helpless people become. It’s gotten to where most young people (millennials and generation Z) have no basic survival skills. To them, cooking dinner means putting a frozen entree into the microwave. Many of them have never cooked a meal from scratch in their entire lives.
But when you consider all the other skills needed to survive a widespread disaster, it gets much worse. Most young people have never collected and purified water, started and built a fire, or even worked in a garden. They don’t know how to build a shelter, how to handle a weapon, or how to navigate without their phones. So when the SHTF, they will be completely helpless (if they even survive).
It’s not entirely their fault. After all, it’s their parents who decided that passing on these basic skills wasn’t important. But that’s not the only reason young people will have a hard time if there’s ever a widespread crisis.
In this video, Canadian Prepper talks about how the younger generations got this way and how important it is for us to teach young people to toughen up. You can watch it below:
I don’t think this article was very well thought out. It wasn’t written by someone who really gets millenials. Sadly, the video was nothing more than a 20 minute complaint about millenials- no solutions or ideas offered. I think there are plenty of complaints to be had about millenials, but never once have I seen anyone bother to stop and offer solutions or advice. Also, I know more millenials that are interested in SHTF and prepping than those in older generations. My family became interested in prepping thanks to me, a millenial. Though its true that many urban millenials don’t have these skills, most millenials in rural areas have always grown up gardening and canning. Building fires are second nature to country kids. We know how to raise livestock and fix a tractor any day of the week. We know what wild plants we can eat and how to hunt for our own food. I find this article a little narrow minded in that sense. Within the millenial generation, there were many different ways of up bringing. Furthermore, they left out that there is a HUGE interest within millenials for apocalypse type information and entertainment. Just look at how many apocalypse related movies and books are made for millenials. From the Hunger Games, to Red Dawn, to The 5th Wave, to The Walking Dead, to Divergent. Even for those who don’t have the skills mentioned, most millenials are far more interested in the apocalypse and survival than our parents ever were. Just tell them how to find the information and they’ll want to learn it at this point. They key would be to provide them with a direct source to learn the skills they saw or read about. First starting out, it was extremely hard for me to find detailed information. Most the articles I was first able to find were superficial guideleines. Just give them an outlet to learn by. Oh look! A possible solution.
A Compeltely unfounded and supremely uninformed article. Hope your ad revenue is good…
Well, it’s a video, not an article. Perhaps you’d like to tell us what’s wrong with it?
You don’t know the millennials that I know. It is because of my millennials worried about the zombie apocalypse that I began to prep. My kids not only have the above things covered, but they are not depending on the government for their retirement. I think their group is far more ready then the 40-60 yr olds.