I'm a Brit and over here its kind of funny to see American's who Prep. Prep for alien invasion, prep for zombie outbreak, prep for Government oppression. It always seems to be slightly mad people who react this way, but just recently.. maybe the last few years.. I've followed the climate crisis in the news and tried to pick it apart.
It seems to me the fossil fuel/energy companies are gaslighting people, astroturfing just as the tobacco companies did in the past. We've had all this time (decades in fact) to transition. To adapt. Now we get this watered down deal that will see nothing really change.
So for me its time to store dry foods, toiletries, rainwater. Whatever I can afford. I will be secretly supplementing my electric with a small solar array I have bought with my overtime. Nothing massive, just 640w (two renogy panels as they have good reviews), and a small g99 inverter. The panels are hidden out back in a garden with the cable connected to grid via a long cable and into a switched inlet. I also have two friends who are doing the same as we've saved 5% of the cost buying together.
Things are already hard here. The last thing we need is for another load of panics but long term. People are already making their way here from other countries as their own are too dangerous, or their crops are failing. Imagine what it will be like when things get worse. We need to do our own thing now.
Building community is one of these terms that gets tossed around a lot and it sounds nice, but it's not the fix all in our society.
People are constantly moving around the globe. And with that constant flux it's hard to build irl community and a lot of the movement by westerners is by choice. Each year more and more millions of people are going to be forced to move due to the climate catastrophes. I'm not sure the answer, but build community locally just isn't a reality I see anymore.
Well, obviously the answer is violent revolution, but in order to do that...
And thats my point. What ways do we build a revolutionary vanguard party in a society where people are constantly moving. I don't really have an answer. But be friends with your neighbor and then move after a year also isn't the answer.
Building a community is much more than just getting to know your neighbor though; the goal is to ultimately organize and de-atomize our society. By building small communities and linking them to others we can do things like share/trade resources or coordinate and make introductions to a new community when one of your members has to move away. Rich people do that shit all the time. It's about building an alternative culture and structure that can undermine our oppressors'.