Why Bother With Survival Techniques for Upcoming Climate Hell?

I had been uninterested in them, but now I see some validity.

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I’m fine with symbolic acts that nominally mitigate climate collapse. I rarely drive and have never owned a car. I quit eating beef this year. My wife and I are planning to move into a home half the size of where we live now.

But those actions are a mere sideshow to the activism that’s needed to prevent climate collapse. We need to stop the production and use of fossil fuels — or at least reduce it to a trickle.

And I’ve seen all those articles about how to survive the collapse — grow vegetables, perhaps stock firearms, whatever. But, at best, to me that seems to be the wrong emphasis. At worst, these articles dismiss any efforts to stop the collapse and perhaps encourage us to passively accept the end.

That’s premature and unconscionable.

Another Way of Looking At It

It’s bad enough that we need to tell our children, “hey, kids, we’ve damaged your planet and you’ll need to struggle for survival after we’re dead.” That’s bad. Real bad.

But these “survival strategists” are implying that we give up on the planet, and that we need to move on to Mad Max strategies. That we don’t intend to even make an effort to…