New Poll Finds Millennials Lack Basic Survival Skills
Many millennials are clueless when it comes to basic survival skills!
A recent poll conducted at the London Boat show indicates many young people have a general lack of knowledge about basic survival skills such as knot tying, starting a fire or fishing!
As technology has evolved, many basic survival skills have been lost.
Grandparents of millennials still prefer to use a paper map, while most young people go right to guided GPS navigation such as Google Maps.
As an early member of "Generation Y", I was surprised to read how few young Great Britians had never been camping, or even swam in open water. Have we reached a tipping point where technology has reached the point of diminishing returns?
Of the 2,000 young adults surveyed, only 1/3 knew how to spark a flame, and less than half had ever been camping before! Half were unable to tie a survival knot, and nearly half have never swam in open water before! No ocean, no lakes, no rivers. And Britain is an island!
What will be the long term ramifications of this? At what point do we simply turn off the TV and go outside?
It doesn't have to be this way! Consider scheduling a camping trip as soon as possible! If you or your millennials want to learn survival skills, check out this amazing list of primitive gatherings and survival schools across the US. Please comment with ones you know of, or love!
Sources:
http://prepforshtf.com/millennials-lack-basic-survival-skills/