I’m a teacher in one of the big neoliberal hellscapes and want to get the fuck out. I’m lucky enough that my partner is labor aristocracy and we are talking about trying to save money over the next few years to get a little bit of land to farm up north to get out of the climate apocalypse.

Our long term is to make a space for climate refugees to live in a community and provide mutual aid to people who need it as shit breaks down.

Friends of mine want to do similar stuff and have great skills like being nurses, gardeners, mechanics. As a teacher I have no physical skills but learn pretty quickly.

What skills can I learn to contribute in a post climate world?

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    3 years ago

    @SuperDullesBros

    I forgot to add glass-making to that list. Not just drinking vessels, but lenses and window panes and measuring equipment... without glass, we are certainly stuck in the 17th century.

    The Precious Plastic project is a fun thing to check out. I'm not sure if being able to recycle and locally mold or extrude or 3D-print plastic will be super pivotal, but it's an important waste stream to consider.

    Open Source Ecology has a list of all the machines that would be required to re-create Industrial Civilization. :a-guy:

    I don't think focusing on bringing back the whole range of tech right off the bat is a good thing, so I gravitate to resources like Low Tech Magazine and the stuff the good people at Auroville put out.