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[CW: Climate change] I do not want to be a doomer but...
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Start growing potatoes and a few varieties of beans, learn how to ferment vodka, and how to safely run a distillation to get alcohol strong enough to sterilise bandages or run a generator (<95% or so)
Get to know your neighbours and look out for one another. Being the person with big ratchet straps, wood planks and tarps, who's also willing to help batten down the hatches is a good way of being part of the community, learn how to make flood defences and how to not die in one.
Get on a first aid course that goes on for more than just a day. Keep your first aid kit and your skills up to date.
Learn to maintain things without killing yourself by touching something charged (physically or electrically) or damaging the thing you're trying to fix.
Get solar panels, charge caravan batteries to run inverters for when the rolling blackouts come.
Find out how to make the chalk paint they put over shop windows for the coming months when the sunlight is unbearable, IR blocking window films also help to keep the indoors from heating up as harshly, while lowering heat loss in the winter, the paint is cheaper but can be washed off when it rains, window films are easier if you're not on the ground floor.
Switch to a renewable energy provider and cancel your amazon/whatever food delivery things you may use (I genuinely dont get why someone would pay double to order a private taxi for a fast food slop meal in the first place let alone the environmental impact of someone taxi-ing food around a city.)
Pester the shit out of your local politicians to focus more on environmental protection, and dont fall for the "voting is pointless, every party is bad" bullshit, because the worst and dumbest people you know are voting for the worst and the dumbest candidates that are ripping the copper out of the walls as we speak.
If things don't get to 3°C and ~2bn deaths by 2050 it'll be through the efforts of the people in power actually being forced to give a shit.
What you're describing is how to be resilient at a personal and community level which is well and good. It is also expensive, not accessible for many, and involves basically admitting defeat.
"Pestering" your local politicians and voting for the liberal capitalist party over the regressive capitalist party is not proving to be a sufficient formula for change. Relying on personal consumption changes like "don't buy from Amazon" is also insufficient and essentially a capitalist myth that the onus of climate change is on the consumers.
We need revolutionary individual and mass action and to disassemble the capitalist domination systems that are baking our planet. There is no other way through where we make it out alive.
Ok, describe the action. Do you want me to describe how to organise a protest without the surveillance state quashing it or having the local police harass you and legally enter your home to search through your belongings to find a reason to arrest you?
Or are you thinking of more direct action like those kids who keep going around pulling down flock cameras or burgling their way into the offices of the many arms of the military industrial complex, to then be arrested and charged as domestic terrorists?
Or do you want me to fill a fire extinguisher with orange paint?
Glue myself to a main road to make the proletariat late for work and sit idling their cars?
You want to be real? Then treat this like we're going to survive, but treat it like the only way we're going to do so is through actual community standing up for their rights as a group,
Small acts of defiance from fringe groups that do nothing but feed into the atomisation of society through mass media hysteria and put more bodies into prisons.
I'm not doing it to sound like BP with their "Carbon footprint" bullshit, I'm saying the less people feeding money into this modern day slave labour business, the better off we are as a society. The lessened environmental impact is a bonus even if it is just a drop in the ocean.
Ok, so instead of putting people in power who can enact change, we should do what exactly?
Continue to talk about it on a message board until we say something egregious enough for the clanker currently scalping our words to flag up a "person of interest" label and have someone come knocking?
If you're going to make a post saying "nuh uh, we need to dismantle the system" then please elaborate on how you intend to do so and what comes after, how you intend to actually survive the future climate without going completely bougie isolationist and starting a homestead out in the countryside where you grow your own food, make your own power, build your own house and somehow do so with no money, bo community and without dying of preventable diseases.
Why don’t you use your reason and independent thought and figure out the right steps? I do not have the magic formula to end capitalism, but we have more to gain from mistaken action than inaction. There’s risk in making suggestions, legal or not, that challenge the government in a revolutionary way in a public forum. You can figure it out.
Farming in our backyard is great, but insufficient when there are armed state paramilitary knocking down doors with semi-automatics and masks to enact their ethnic cleansing campaigns.
Regarding personal consumption: I haven’t bought petrol or animal products for 5 years, so I respect the impulse. But it’s akin to “I own no slaves, I hope others see reason and free their slaves one day”. The system of exploitation is ultimately not challenged and needs to be.
I don’t know what country you’re in, so it’s quite difficult for me to tell you how to be pragmatic politically. If it’s America, first thing you can do is stop voting for Democrats. As a general principle, a working people’s party, mass actions, self-defense groups, engaged with labor. You can go study history to learn about further development and see why this is a better model than reformism.
You demand I provide a complete societal model when I’m advocating you engage in political action? Same farcical demand the status quo have levied against anarchism for 100 years. Go read Malatesta, he’s answered you better than I can.
Yes it needa ressources, but so does being dependent on corporations and states for your food energy education etc. I feel like aiming for community resilience is of the ways we can do prefiguration, so I dont see it as admitting defeat.
I actually see it as one of the ways to organize and get ressources for what you are describing here: