The Greenest Steps to More Sex |
by Jan Lundberg | |
23 February 2009 | |
Culture Change Letter #238 - Pardon the attention-getter title, but don't you agree that surviving both collapse and climate catastrophe can put you in an advantageous position -- missionary and otherwise -- for attracting mates?
Your role, after the corporate economy is gone and after you can't drive to Las Vegas, for example, will be to somehow bolster or support the surviving population of your community. There are many important ways to do this. One of them involves, yes, extra love making -- especially if collapse or climate developments have resulted in die-off, and you collectively recognize the need to maintain or increase numbers. Procreation, though, is not everything, when bonding is even more important. In the 1990s our Auto-Free Times magazine editorialized that people must re-form tribes. (This had nothing to do with sex, but sex is never far from anyone's mind.) Only a few of us heard the call. We've tried to be ready to heed it, or at least we're ready to be ready. Those who have been paying attention to the fatal flaws of the dominant system have relished our solidarity and mutual aid that we managed to practice in the hostile context of the mass illusion. For us, the globalized economy has been an unnecessary evil that gets in the way of convivial survival and thriving in a more natural, human fashion. Now that a better, ancient way is around the corner, as the inflated technological Babylon falls, it's a good idea to dream and think of what we want. Getting there takes some cojones or a free mind, with a character and set of ethics not averse to changing one's tired or cherished habits. The future belongs to the quick and the healthy. Now that collapse has begun and it's clear it can only worsen -- if you understand where the consumer abundance has come from and how the huge population has been supported -- here are twelve new steps to go with our year-2000 Pledge for Climate Protection's ten steps (that fortuitously addressed petrocollapse as well in the Ten Steps): ☛ Embrace collapseWhat prompted this piece was the worst climate news ever, today: Scientists capture dramatic footage of Arctic glaciers melting in hours "Greenland is losing enough water each year to cover Germany a metre deep." By Jessica Salter, UK Telegraph, 20 February 2009Cheers, Depaver Jan * * * * * Further reading: Social Collapse Best Practices by Dmitry Orlov, Feb. 13, 2009 (text of his lecture for the Long Now Foundation's series)
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