Thank you for this clear-headed assessment of “the long emergency” that we all face. Your final advice is the best: to defeat the super-rich thugs who will attempt to monopolize our agricultural infrastructures, simply relocalize: grow gardens, grow community, grow awareness—by learning, teaching, healing, and creating close-knit permaculture-based neighborhoods that network with one another, otherwise known as Garden Guilds…and thereby ease the inevitable transition to a low-energy, sustainable Gaian culture.