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Bread and Circuses (@breadandcircuses) · 11/2022 · Tröts: 3.985 · Folger: 9.362

Do 18.07.2024 14:00

How do we cope with the near certainty that our present way of life is coming to an end soon, and that the collapse of society could be not simply an inconvenience but also life-threatening?

I suggest taking action.

It’s up to each of us to decide what kind of action that should be, whether it’s fighting against the massively unjust system that’s dragging us all down, or working to create a new, more sustainable system.

A couple of months ago, I did a long series of posts outlining some practical steps you might consider taking.
➡️ https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/112410879381028836

Now here’s another promising resource, a new book from Adam Greenfield (@adamgreenfield) called “Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire”…
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With the real impacts of climate change wreaking ever greater havoc on our lives, it is increasingly clear that "climate change" has also become an ideological apparatus meant to entrap us in despair, policy paralysis, and reformist horizons.

While North America once again bakes in a record-breaking heat wave this week, the "pragmatic" options in the field of politics are intended to swing us to one of two presidential candidates, each a loyal servant to fossil capital and each wholly committed to the survival of the economy at the expense of any form of collective flourishing.

As the unfolding reality of Earth system collapse increasingly intersects with the organized abandonment of our communities, and the complex systems we rely upon for the maintenance of everyday life prove to be far more fragile and contingent than we’d ever understood them to be, there ought to be a place close at hand where we can attend to our material needs, and also a place where we might seek the strength, insight, and reassurance of others.

I believe our troubled times now ask us to be more conscious and purposeful about creating such places in our communities — each one provisioned against the hour of maximum need and linked with others in a loose, confederal network. I call them “Lifehouses.”

The fundamental idea of the Lifehouse is that there should be a place in every three- or four-city-block radius where you can charge your phone when the power’s down everywhere else, draw drinking water when the supply from the mains is for whatever reason untrustworthy, gather with your neighbors to discuss matters of common concern, organize reliable childcare, borrow tools it doesn’t make sense for any one household to own individually and so on — and that these can and should be one and the same place.

So let us organize our own syndicates of initiative and together build the Lifehouse. Let’s start with what is closest at hand, build outward from there and link our efforts with those of the others who have set themselves the same task. Let’s let go, finally, gratefully, of all our vain hope for the future and use that energy instead to undertake the work — the necessary work — of care, of repair, of survival.
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FULL ESSAY -- https://illwill.com/beyond-hope
THE BOOK -- https://www.versobooks.com/products/2536-lifehouse

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