Bushcraft is one of the world's oldest traditions, passed down for hundreds of thousands of years. 'Survival' is merely a skill, but Bushcraft transcends that as not just a way to thrive off the land, but as a way of life and mutual respect for nature. The ingenuity and respect some native peoples have for the land isn't just breath taking, but a living piece of prehistory!
Most western folks don't respect or understand wildlife in the same way our ancestors did. They were not taught and we replaced these skills with engineering and technology.
Like deer in headlights, we modern humans sometimes get caught in the headlights of nature as well, like happened here. A hurt and starving bear just trying to survive saw a meal and nothing more. I don't know what happened, but in a situation like that, it seems fairly easy to not make any mistakes and still get attacked.
I know this article is mainly a social critique, but I can't help but have my current opinion reaffirmed by everything I read: If you spend any time around dangerous wildlife, whether a mosquito or a bear, you NEED to be able to mitigate the danger of that wildlife or you're playing a dangerous game. Like a starving bear, some variables are unknown, uncontrollable and unmitigable except through one thing: firearms.
That seems reasonable. Let them set up their own website. What's that? No one wants to be a hosting provider for a bunch of neonazis? Well, they better go and set up their own hosting provider.
And before you know it, you need to build an iron mine because no one wants to sell you steel for the basic infrastructure of the town you were forced to build because no one was willing to let you enter their store to even buy groceries!
At what industrial level is it okay and not okay to exclude someone from that?
Censorship isn't an 'answer'. Don't ask me what the answer is, though. I leave that to smarter minds.
This might be captain obvious to some, but I think it still needs to be said: Technical debt is like any other debt and needs thorough analysis and some business strategy applied before things can and do get better.
That, or we switch to a safer nuclear. Turns out nuclear is the only CLEAN baseload energy provider. The rest is all intermittent.
Fun fact: Nuclear (in the US) is 50 times safer than hydro-electric (in the US) and 4400 times safer than rooftop solar (global) as measured by deaths per watt-hour.
Say what you will about Chernobyl and Fukushima, but if LFTRs can provide a better and safer nuclear? Then it's about time environmentalists started pulling their heads from their asses and reconsider nuclear before we irreversibly fuck up our entire planet and ecosystem.