The Honest Sorcerer

Collapse Will Look Nothing Like the Movies

Modern, overdeveloped societies in the West are already in a severe crisis, which will eventually turn into a long global emergency in the decades ahead. A five-century-long era of economic growth, ushered in by colonization and leading to the plundering of natural, mineral and most of…

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2 years ago · 676 likes · 155 comments · The Honest Sorcerer

How do we have these conversations now? The world is burning, ecosystems are undergoing type changes at rates we’ve never seen and species are forever lost in blinks of uncaring eyes. We know that within most of our lifetime's global fossil fuel production will effectively cease, there's only so much and we're reaching the end. I'm not interested in doomsday prepping, building bunkers and hording food. I am interested in building supportive networks working to future proof (as much as reasonable) our worlds. I don't mean developing some new-fangled technology, I mean truly supportive networks for all of the things we as humans need to survive.

We humans are notoriously bad at being proactive, especially when the thing we're protecting against is a huge unknown, full of fuzzies and things we're able to stick our head in the sand about or can't be bothered past the comfort and leisure/hedonism of the now vs. the hard work needed, now, to survive tomorrow.

My family has actually done A LOT of this work in different locations, I can speak from first-hand experience how back breaking difficult it can be. It's one thing to grow a tomato in your garden where the stakes are nonexistent, it's another thing entirely when your livelihood (let alone existence) depends upon it.

I'm a pretty practical person, I want solutions that work, systems that function based on reality. As I said, I'm not about what I consider to be right-wing nutbag doomsday prepping with a dugout bunker and a years' worth of rations, guns and ammunition. Nor am i interested in the "woo" so often associated with the wack-a-doo, overly hippie left - we landed on the moon, the world is round, biodynamics isn't a basis for food production that sustains more than a small family (somewhat questionable even there).

I'm really hopeful that places like this is one part of the solution but I will say, based on plenty of past experience, I'm not sure most of us realize just exactly how much we're going to need to put on our big-person pants, start making some sacrifices, blast through this radical individualism that has been a cancer on western civilization and get to work.