I'm thinking about trying to join an intentional community to learn the ropes of farm and homestead skills but especially learning the hardest skill of being a member of a horizontally organized democratic community (and all the mundane and not fun aspects involved). Maybe after a year or two of that, if I still have a taste for it, I might try to start my own somewhere. We're all we've got and I think just trying to survive 3°+ warming in the next couple of decades is gonna be really nasty.
How bout you?
you know, for all you farming fans, there is a civilization on the other side of the planet that is much older and bigger than ours that has spent the last 2200 years with the primary focus of maintaining a centralized bureaucracy that can organize mass grain cultivation. even after the apocalypse, division of labor is still your best bet.
I have been treating organizing (specifically communist party building with a focus on community organizing) like it has been a full time job. It is the only way to give working people a chance to oppose ecofascism. The only way for the planet to survive is for capitalism to end, but you can organize while learning the the skills you will need to help survive the future. They aren’t mutually exclusive, quite the contrary. And as you organize it also builds a community around you, which will be the actual key to survival. So far it has worked, and I went from no leftist community around me to organizing with many dozens of people constantly
think I'm gonna make a big sword out of a car bumper and wear a tyre instead of actual clothes
Theres practically no reason to learn farming/homesteading in america if there is an apocalypse. America is a scavengers paradise; you'll be able to cover food, water and medicine for the rest of your natural lifespan. Every suburban home has enough to last a family for months lol, not to mention engines, batteries, plastics, wood, gasoline.
I guess if a weird asteroid turns nearly everyone into piles of calcium, sure... but... otherwise, people aren't gonna just disappear. The lead-up to famine is going empty cupboards, drain gasoline. Those homes will be full of desperate people who want to survive same as anyone. And the energy spent moving from one store of finite supplies to another would be better spent working together with others to build something permanent and productive.
Have moved to the great lakes region from the desert southwest. Have some experience in small scale farming. Plan to somehow acquire a rural property. Get a deep well, a small orchard, and a big garden. Give as much food away as we can spare, until we can't. Make friends and help each other. Stand together and watch it all fall apart as the world system we rely on disintegrates or nuclear hellfire rains down on us. As far as I can tell, in tje long run it won't make a lick of difference anyway
Not that I could ever afford to stay here, but even the Bay Area the amount of people I work with that are going incredibly, deeply in debt to live in places like Dublin, Danville, Walnut Creek etc is mind boggling. They’re already boring, hot as hell furnaces. Do they expect them to be a nice place to live when the tech industry falters, the water dries up and they’re in permanent 100+ºF weather?
It's not looking good down here already. My region is getting increasingly worse and the regions that are going to come out the safest by the end of the century are already pushing out ecomigrants. I'm moving up to the northern region of my country next year but that region is only good for another 10-14 years before it too suffers the same fate. For now, I'm enjoying time with my family and community. Experiencing things I've never been able to and being more social than I've been in my life.
eat hot chip and lie
also my bf said hed be a communist warlord madmax style so i guess id just be his queen or smth idk
CW: Extreme Doomerism
I have a friend who owns some land and is in the early phases of unironically starting a commune with a small group of people, so I'll be joining up with them for a while. In the highly likely case that falls apart (industrialized farm yields are already dropping which leaves me little hope for small-scale farming), I'm planning on killing myself.
