Pensioner Lives in a Cave

[taiyuu_otoko]

21st-century caveman: Hunter-gatherer, 79, has lived in Argentinian mountain grotto for 40 years drinking from a creek and eating what he kills

Pedro Luca has lived in a cave in northern Argentina for 40 years.

The 79-year-old survives without running water or electricity in his cavern high in a mountain in northern Tucuman province.

When he gets hungry he picks up his rifle and goes hunting or heads on a three-hour trek down the mountain to the nearest settlement of San Pedro de Colalao. A creek is his main source of water.

'It's the purest, richest water there is,' he says.

 

[zekko]

This off the grid lifestyle thing seems to be getting more and more common. People seem to want to escape modern society and long for a simpler life, even if it is very meager and difficult. At the same time, the space needed to support this kind of existence is shrinking.

 

[Bible_Belt]

80% of Americans live in cities. Of the remaining 20%, most of those people still live in a town, on not nearly enough land to support themselves. Shut off the grid, and 90% of Americans would be dead in six months, mostly from cholera and other third-world diseases. Then there will be plenty of space for the rest of us.

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

Then there will be plenty of space for the rest of us.

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http://ientj.com/OddsOfSurvival_20160729.pdf