True. “The apocalypse” is a myth, an ironic wish-fulfillment fantasy for many (especially Christians). But global heating and overshoot and collapse are real — it is simply physics and ecology 101. And whether it is incremental or self-accelerating (and recent evidence strongly favors the latter) our global market economy will collapse in the near future. It must. And it will be hell on Earth. Whether or not this spells doom for the human species or all animal life remains to be seen.

So what can we do? Relocalize, in whatever ways possible. Grow gardens, grow community, and grow awareness. Form garden guilds with your neighbors now, because when larger infrastructures collapse (money, gasoline, the electrical grid, civil society), the neighbors you know will be your best friends, while the neighbor you have never met may become your worst enemy. In dire times, contiguous clusters of well-organized neighborhoods are our best protection against encroaching chaos…