I like the sentiment, but the winter months aren’t when you need to worry about starving: the hunger gap occurs in spring. Obviously this is highly climate dependent, but in much of the non-tropical northern hemisphere most crops don’t produce a first harvest until May at the earliest, and the calorically dense crops usually aren’t harvestable until midsummer or later (often much later). We can push that date earlier nowadays thanks to advancements like polytunnels, satellite weather forecasts, and specialized crop breeding, but even nowadays something like an abnormally wet spring can delay sowing by a month (which in agriculture terms is basically that “This Little Maneuver’s Gonna Cost Us 51 Years” meme).
Why wouldn’t you worry in Winter about starving in the Spring? Seems like a good way to starve.
The original line is
pray our autumn harvest will last us through the Dark Months
I was referencing that wording specifically, and clarifying that those prayers needed to worry much more about lasting well past the “dark months” into the brightest months of the year. In other words if your harvest only lasts through winter, you’re hosed.
You’re technically correct that the phrase “the winter months aren’t when you need to worry about starving” could mean “it’s not during winter that you need to worry,” however context should make it fairly obvious that what’s actually meant is “it’s not during winter that starvation is a threat.”
While true, we traded our free time in December for civilization to keep away the wolves and the convenience of grocery stores so we don’t have to worry about the Autumn harvest lasting until spring. But we still get to drink in our off hours, so we have that going for us.
No, we were ment to run on the open fields. Chase gazelles, gather arround fires to sing songs of love and the stars and die of infection/predation like god intended smh. Friggin kids this days with their food security and antibiotics
Mankind has invented harvest only about 10k years ago. That has no meaning in evolution’ timescales.
Fr though.
I need to get me some of that speed I’ve been hearing about because I cannot stay awake in December no matter how much caffeine I guzzle.
