COLORADO, Dec 25 — Aiming an AR-15 rifle across a Colorado valley dotted with antelope and cattle, Drew Miller explains how members of his new survival ranch would ride out an apocalypse. The former US Air Force intelligence officer said his latest Fortitude Ranch community, under construction...
The exterior of a survival camp operated by Fortitude Ranch in central Colorado December 9, 2019. — Reuters pic
“If you’ve got a lot of weapons, if you’ve got a lot of members at guard posts, defensive walls, we don’t think we’re going to need to fight,” said Miller, crouching on top of a fortified position on the camp perimeter. Sceptics said Fortitude Ranch was preparing for catastrophic events that were unlikely and possibly not worth surviving.
“The quality of life will be degraded to a point where, for modern-day people, it probably won’t be worth living,” said Gershon, a clinical professor of epidemiology.The solar-powered camps cater to middle-class Americans worried about their vulnerability in cities and suburbs. Unlike traditional survivalists, many are not schooled in off-the-grid living, and some have no idea how to hunt.
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