As I glance over the responses to your insightful piece, I find two basic categories of response: carpe diem (eat, drink, and be merry…) or go back to the land and feverishly prepare to become self-reliant while you still can… What is missing from these two polarities is the importance of…other people—not just ourselves. This is why my own habitual response to this pervasive question “Now what?”…is to grow gardens, grow community, and grow awareness, by learning, teaching, healing, and creating…so that even after we die, we increase the odds that some—our descendants, our neighbors, or our friends and their descendants, perhaps, will find their own ways to survive the collapse, and pass on the knowledge and wisdom they receive from us to their own posterity, seeding a Gaian future to heal our ruined industrial hellscape. As George Harrison sang, “When you’ve seen beyond yourself then you will find peace of mind is waiting there…”