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alxd of the Story Seed Library Aug 25, 2023

I find https://www.okdoomer.io/youre-not-going-to-make-it/ to be a nice little essay for all those people who think they can just leave the society during a #climateApocalypse and live #offGrid nicely.

It states again and again: you're not going to make it on your own.

We either build resilience together, as a #solarpunk society and communities, or we won't make it.

Let's not romanticize off-grid, homesteading and bunkers.

One more good line:

"The best kind of prepping is emotional."

You're Not Going to Make It

I read about this one family... They were tired of society. They thought civilization was unraveling. They wanted to live off the grid. Authorities found their mummified remains a few months later. The family died from exposure and malnutrition. They didn't make it. A while back, a prepper tried to

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alxd of the Story Seed Library Aug 25, 2023

The end message might be too grim, as it doesn't see a chance for communities, but I think it makes a point -

We can hope and strive for a better future, but we all need to admit that it will be traumatic in the meantime.

We need to be ready for that trauma, we need to acknowledge that each year we don't address the climate change more people will suffer, and we should incorporate this into our narratives.

Will it be really bad? Yes.

Can we make it better?

That's the point of #solarpunk

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Maggie Maybe Aug 25, 2023

@alxd no I don’t think she’s saying there’s no chance for community, I think what she’s saying is that we would have to form communities which would be a “grid” so it wouldn’t be “living off the grid” anymore. She’s saying we would need community to survive and the preppers don’t envision the future that way.

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alxd of the Story Seed Library

@maggiemaybe I think you're right, I just wanted to extra-emphasize that I can see communities as a solution, with or without the word "grid" (which for some can have really bad connotations).