You’re right, I’m afraid. It’s too late to do anything meaningful on a global scale. Collectively, we are screwed, despite any desperate wishful thinking about techno-fixes or anything else. And there’s no guarantee that our rapidly changing, increasingly turbulent climate will make agriculture as we know it even possible. Or drinking water, for that matter. It’s already running out in the (entirely engineered) American southwest. So we all face an early death, whether through natural disasters, political violence, war, famine, or pestilence—or mass suicide from despair. Welcome to the only future left.
UNLESS…some folks have the wisdom and resilience to form local garden guilds—growing gardens, growing community, and growing awareness, by sharing both produce and skills to emancipate themselves as much as possible from the crumbling infrastructures (energetic, agricultural, economic, technological, and political) upon which we all now depend. So pass the word: starting immediately, learn to grow gardens, grow community, and grow awareness by learning, teaching, healing, and creating—now, before you have to!