>>1427177I love the story of the lykovs but you are overlooking several important things if this is what you want to use as your poster child for ehatever the fuck you are crusading for in this thread.
>the mother starved to death because the family unit was expending more calories than they took in on activities including fuel production >agafia and the lykovs as a whole recieved outside help since their discovery in 78>the lykovs didn't work so they had more time to do things like process wood by hand>the lykovs had a saw>the lykovs were limited in what they could bring with them meaning that they were using the best available tools for the job not the best tool for the job, a distinction most of us don't face.>the lykovs fireplace is a stone mass fireplace capable of accepting longer pieces of wood than most home fireplaces in use today>following karps passing agafia has abandoned processing large firewood in favor of hacking off smaller more manageable pieces What argument are you trying to make here, we are not fleeing religious prosecution with whatever pre ww2 technology we can cary and I for one dont intend to spend 100% of my free time processing firewood when faster alternatives are available.
Also if you bothered to watch the documentary that screenshot you posted was pulled from you would know that she fell that tree to chop of the leaf containing branches to feed her goats and abandoned the timber save for the twigs stuck to the leaves because she is unable to transport the wood or mow hay in her old age.
