What Are You Doing With Your Collapse Awareness?

I posted this question on Facebook recently and got back some great answers. Here’s a few:

  • Learning some homesteading skills.
  • Writing poetry, prose and music about/with the revelations and lessons of collapse.
  • Participating in collapse support groups.
  • Witnessing and reporting
  • Trying to be present and enjoy what the now has.
  • Starting an intentional living community to weather the storms to come.
  • Living off grid & teaching others what I can, learning tons from all the folks who stop through.
  • Trying to live in gratitude for this life we live.
  • Witnessing, grieving, dissolving my attachments, and learning to need little.
  • Trying to guide people in valuing human connection and interdependence over the myth of rugged individualism, on the belief that human beings will still need community post-collapse, and it will need to look different than a lot of what we’ve been doing.
  • Avoiding doom rhetoric and sharing restructuring solutions.
  • Being more compassionate with others who are not collapse aware.
  • Scattering wild flower seeds.
  • I find myself giving out more money to homeless people.
  • Trying to figure out growing our own food in a restricted and ever changing environment.

These positive responses really lifted my mood. Thanks to all who responded.

Published by John Halstead

John Halstead is the author of *Another End of the World is Possible*, in which he explores what it would really mean for our relationship with the natural world if we were to admit that we are doomed. John is a native of the southern Laurentian bioregion and lives in Northwest Indiana, near Chicago. He is a co-founder of 350 Indiana-Calumet, which worked to organize resistance to the fossil fuel industry in the Region. John was the principal facilitator of “A Pagan Community Statement on the Environment.” He strives to live up to the challenge posed by the Statement through his writing and activism. John has written for numerous online platforms, including Patheos, Huffington Post, PrayWithYourFeet.org, and Gods & Radicals. He is Editor-at-Large of HumanisticPaganism.com. John also facilitates climate grief support groups climate grief support groups affiliated with the Good Grief Network.

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