How I became 'collapse aware'

As Bill McKibbenwrote recently, the best thing you can do to prepare yourself for climate change is live in an area with a high degree of social trust.

We’ve come through 75 years where having neighbors was essentially optional: if you had a credit card, you could get everything you needed to survive dropped off at your front door. But the next 75

... See more

This distinction was brought home to me by collapse theorist, sci-fi novelist, and, former Archdruid of North America, John Michael Greer.20 “A controlled, creative transition to sustainability might have been possible,” Greer argues, “if the promising beginnings of the 1970s had been followed up in the ’80s and ’90s.” But our politicians and CEOs

... See more

predicament effectively forever, but all the while we’ll never agree on exactly what in fact it is or how best to resolve it. Finally, we have to accept that our predicament is a moving target that we are simultaneously causing even as we try to disentangle ourselves from it, and all our attempts to resolve it are irrevocable experiments done in re

... See more