We have powers that be which refuse to let go of their accustomed means of wealth, and they "dig in" and double down. This is also the link between my blog/Web/Social Media presence moving from "Occupy Theology" to "EcoEcclesia".

The 1% will continue to fortress themselves off from the world that they are leaving us (and which we continue to allow them, since we have LONG acquiesced to the false story they have circulated throughout the "civilized world": that we have "unlimited growth" before us that is ours for the taking) .

It's the "takers" from Daniel Quinn's story of "Ishmael". Scientists have only very relatively recently begun to awaken us to what this false story has wrought; the unsustainable future (a future long since begun) toward which this pushes us.

What we must "Occupy" is that which is actually threatening the future of our own "Occupation". We are fighting for our Common Home. A New Heaven and a New Earth. An Ecological Civilization. Durable Communities. All of which require of us a "Blessed Unrest".

It's a huge FAIL on the part of Social Media companies that our content is not ALL instantly available to us, forever. Facebook in particular. They (Facebook) were once very open in their API, and made it simple to save posts and comments to blogs, and vice versa. And , by many of the same mechanisms, interoperable, so that posts in one place went instantly to others, including comment links or the comments themselves. I would have loved to have everything I've ever posted right at my fingertips, in a database such as that which WordPress creates. I would do all of my posts in that interface, and it's mobile app(s), and they would go instantly to my other chosen accounts in other systems, and interactions on any system would come back to me via WordPress imports/notifications, and all my video would be available via links from any of the other systems, originating on YouTube.

It was a great frustration to me that Google failed so miserably at Social Media content and the potential ecosystem they could have built that spanned EVERYTHING the users linked to it. It's puzzling that they were so bad at it. They seemed to be so unchallengeable in almost any internet communication task. Then Facebook got "too big for their britches", and began failing at the same time they began restricting (and RETRACTING) and retreating into silo-ism, this massively lowering their advantage as a Social Media hub.)

Very disillusioning at first. Now just an expected, unsurprising capitulation to cheap, insufficient communication.

What are we going to say when we realize that , after Trump is gone, and the Supreme Court is replaced with justices who seek justice, and the worst of the corrupt rich are in prison (all pie in the sky , unfortunately).....but after all that, what will we say when we realize that we left the fate of the ecosphere to those very few who needed far more of us to build a sufficient resiliency; When we find ourselves faced with the most consequential neglect yet, and are seeing civilization as we have known it collapsing, and dying? We may realize, too late, that we were ignoring the collapses of that which underpins it all; that which supports life itself. What will we say then?

And there's this: I know that all those things and more that I mentioned up front are really important for the quality of life; to what constitutes a healthy civilization; what approaches Beloved Community. But we have to find a way, like the terminal patient does with their undergoing and enduring treatment , while still working as best they can muster, for their selected areas of justice seeking. But they also realize that they must sacrifice time and energy to seeking to stay alive so that they might continue to seek all those other things.

When I see people defending Biden with "He's a brilliant President", I think of asking whether someone with a likely terminal cancer diagnosis, who decides that "quitting smoking" is "good enough", and refuses to undergo any other treatment, because it might not look good, or upset someone, is taking a "brilliant" path to recovery.
Biden has done, or overseen, SOME actions (even "a record amount"....but is it ENOUGH because it surpasses the U.S. PRIOR investment in Climate mitigation? NO. And it's really NOT EVEN CLOSE.

We can't simply accept that this is "the best we can do", when it's clearly NOT ENOUGH. That kind of thinking is a massive denial that will *keep us* speeding ahead to ecological ruin. It's NOT NEARLY "enough" to merely SLOW DOWN, or make a pit stop. If we keep heading in this direction, we are IGNORING the doctors telling us that we cannot survive without certain steps. But that's what we CONTINUE to do.

And how it it that to point out that what we're doing is NOT NEARLY enough considered to be critical of those few efforts. IMPORTANT and needed efforts, ABSOLUTELY. But still FAR SHORT of all that it's going to take. Why is this difficult to understand?

The key phrase, which is my choice for the title of this article as it strikes me in this moment:
"Making ourselves at home on a planet none of us have ever seen before." Reminds me of an early Bill McKibben book title: "Eaarth: Making a Life On a Tough New Planet". ( Spelled with two A's instead of one to indicate the "New" planet on which we now find ourselves).

“Personal ruggedization means thinking realistically about where we choose to live, the systems we embed ourselves in, and the ways we work with others to improve our odds of a good future. It’s intelligent, optimistic, purpose-driven engagement with deep uncertainties, making ourselves at home on a planet none of us have ever seen before.”— Alex Steffen in the article below

https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/how-to-succeed-on-a-planet-in-crisis

Where are the people in housing construction who are also aware of the urgency of our Ecological Emergency? Why aren't we hearing more and more, and even ALL THE TIME, about how to demand and build resilience into our collective home life?

Alex Steffen has been talking "Ruggedization" for years now, and has an audience of motivated people, but we need so much more of this. It's been getting steadily worse on both fronts: The unhospitable Climate, and the delay in our turning things toward serious efforts and examples in Climate-change-preparedness/ruggedization. I want to see people in real-estate, home building, community planning, Climate Science, and architecture, get together across the country and take a serious run at this.

I desperately need it for ME. I'm getting drained financially by this insane rental market. I have been searching for over 4 years to find where people are doing this. Where an eco-community of small, sustainable, Climate-rugged homes and community can provide an oasis of sane living in a super-low footprint, and begin to envision anew a different way that fights back against non-walkable communities. We need to rebuild locality again.

It also pisses me off greatly that this hasn't been a burning topic for years now in churches, since we're supposedly all about seeking the Kingdom of God , where God's will is done on earth as it is in heaven** (and this is a "heaven" that's not about AFTER life but about the purpose of THIS life). Heaven is that "parallel" reality that represents how things are meant to be, and our task is to seek the incarnation of that HERE. And I can think of nothing MORE IMPORTANT to that end than it is to be FOCUSING on how we all survive this, and especially as it worsens.