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Climate Crisis: Levels of Resilience [1]
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Date: 2023-07-17
To prepare for the changes we’re facing from climate change, I’m trying make our household resilient on several levels. The levels I’ve devised are:
MODERN: Grid power, tap water, food from the grocery store, gas automobile
FUTURE: Photovoltaic power, harvested rain water or well water drawn by solar pump, homegrown, local, and regional food, electric automobile, permaculture design
CAVEMAN: The power of fire, homegrown or hunted and foraged food, rain water or river water, foot transport
MAD MAX: Guns and hoarding
These levels overlap to a greater or lesser extent. Our household is somewhere between Modern and Future. We use grid power, get our water from a well, and most of our food from the store, but we recently purchased an electric car, and we do grow some of our own food. We’re improving our permaculture design with better rain harvesting and a better garden plan. And we plan to add photovoltaic early next year. No one in this household can survive Caveman level for anything longer than short periods (such as grid power outage) because we depend on modern medications. I’m not bothering with Mad Max level.
Resources
FUTURE:
Discover permaculture videos
Don't be a grasshole
Ecosystem restoration videos
Rain harvesting videos
Rain harvesting info
Resilient living info
CAVEMAN:
Foraging Texas
Eat the weeds
Foraging videos
How do you measure your progress toward resilience?
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