But before European settlers cleared Vermont’s landscape in the 1800s, Indigenous people carefully subsisted off the region’s forests for thousands of years.

Source: https://vtdigger.org/2023/03/02/in-search-of-balance-conservationists-wade-into-an-age-old-debate-as-they-seek-more-protection-for-forests/

But other survivors have revealed that they subsisted on paltry meals for weeks as they were held.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12819673/The-sickening-horrors-endured-Hamas-terrified-hostages-kidnapped-Israeli-women-children-drugged-starved-shot-threatened-violence-spoke-held-inferno-finally-released-49-days.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign

Millions of farming families in the west African countries of Ivory Coast and Ghana – where the majority of the world’s commodity cocoa crop is grown – subsisted on less than $1 a day.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/21/chocolate-ethical-affordable-fair-trade

Oppenheimer subsisted on little more than Chesterfield cigarettes and double-strength martinis, rims dipped in lime.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/08/cillian-murphy-oppenheimer-christopher-nolan-florence-pugh