Well, that’s a hot take lol. I guess the author defines off the grid as totally isolated from any kind of community? Sure, humans survive poorly in very small

Well, that’s a hot take lol. I guess the author defines off the grid as totally isolated from any kind of community? Sure, humans survive poorly in very small groups. We are very social animals and normally tend to live in groups. We thrive in groups. People need communities. But those communities don’t have to be cities. And while it is very difficult to be truly independent as a community, it is possible and humans have done it well for hundreds of thousands of years. I think the author just doesn’t know what the heck he’s doing. Ignorance will get you killed, and if it doesn’t, it’ll at least keep you chained to misery. That said… lone wolfing it for 5 years after the fall of civilisation? You’ll die, for two reasons. First, people need communities to thrive. Secondly, if you have the idea of lone wolfing the fall of civilisation, you don’t know what you need to know to survive, much less to thrive. A community however can survive for hundreds or thousands of years. It doesn’t have to be a modern city.