Off Grid
Because our society and our leaders have so far largely been unable to respond effectively to the many threats to our eco-systems, the threat of a collapse of this civilization is becoming more and more real. In fact by my estimation, I think the time of this collapse is not far off. For example, Greta Thunberg says in a recent Tweet that it is already over that we have already lost the fight against the clock to fix this. Realistically, such a collapse could occur any day now, especially with the degree of international political instability that occurs today.
Therefore it becomes imperative for people to re-learn basic survival skills if we can.
This mainly involves being able to grow our own food and really cutting back on consumption.
Certainly we should be really cutting back on all sorts of extra luxuries that we take for granted in order to minimize the shock that will come soon when everything becomes cut off and the grid goes down. We should even take this a step further and try as much as possible to figure out how to live sustainably in our own lives as much as possible. Certainly growing our own gardens is very important for this. But also learning to cut back on all sorts of bad energy sources and resources is important as well.
Even things like getting used to non-local foods like avocados should be really drastically re-considered.
Certainly cutting back on meat and animal products is an important step.
Debbie Dudek is now far along this path and can be a guide and mentor for us urban and suburban children.
Debbie used to live in the area where I live in. She and I as well as others in the area used to do the environmental surveys outside the library together in 2014. That became the core and inspiration for this web site. In fact, the intro to this web site and some other pieces on this web site such as the section on fracking are her works. A lot of the survey data on this web site dates back to 2014 from those original in-person surveys we did outside the library, although it is true that you can also take this survey on-line now. It is also true that most of the survey data comes from in-person survey data and that very little of it is currently from on-line survey takers.
You can see the intro from this web site as part of her work as part in the Environmental Sociology Primer project that she worked on prior to 2014 here.
For more information, please visit Debbie Dudek's Off Grid Life blog.
This page last updated on 8/3/2021