B. You are now standing at midday, midsummer in the Canyonlands of South Utah. where do you find water?
Q) As another poster stated earlier, cacti, prickly pears, fleshy plants, insects, little critters.
Q) What non native material of organic origin do you use for a knife
A) Bleached bones of animals are always laying about in the desert. I should know I've had many friends slice their ankles on them while trekking through the desert. Specifically cattle bones. And they are definately non-native. If I were desperate, maybe breaking a piece of one of the lenses in my glasses. Maybe sharpening my metal belt buckle.
Q) and, in the possible absence of vegetative fuel, something to burn?
A) Is this a trick question? I wouldn't really want to have a fire at mid-day in the desert. If I had to have fire then I would use some expendable part of my clothing (would it be legal to burn my clothing if they were made of hemp <img src="images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> ), my hair,
Q) C. Your in a park in a major urban center. Suddenly you are surrounded by several religous cult members, the local ethnic street gang, and a civil war re enactment group mad because your disabled ( the streetgang stole the tires) Yugo is blocking their motorhome HQ. Again, you are without tools and have only the clothing on your back.
A) Set the Yugo on fire with the car cigarette lighter and start singing campfire songs.
or
In full view of the mob, take off your shirt dip it in the gas take of the Yugo. Put the gas soaked shirt back on. Bluff that you have a lighter in your hand. Run at the thinnest part of the mob and maybe they will get out of your way so you can escape.
or
Take off a piece of clothing, dip it in gas from the Yugo, set it on fire with the car cigarette lighter, swing it around and start running towards the thinnest part of the mob. Hopefully they will get out of the way and you can escape.