The Rise Of The Climate Change Community
Preparing for the upheaval
Planning and Development
The Rise Of The Climate Change Community
The world is a mess. The lessons learned from fighting fascism have not been learned. It’s creeping everywhere and destabilizing nations. Personal freedoms are under assault, especially for women, and I believe it will get worse. Climate change will become more violent and refugees will move to safety, feeding more fascism and nationalism.
As the earth gets hotter, tensions will rise as we humans try to adapt to a fast-changing world. Hell, I expect we’ll have our own refugees in the United States. I can imagine people fleeing the southern states and heading to the cooler north. I constantly look at the climate projection maps and think about moving there now with my friends and family — my tribe — while the land is still cheap. I’m thinking of building a climate change community.
The idea of building a small self-sufficient community has always appealed to me. When I was a teenager I thought it would be cool to join a sex commune. What a wonderful fantasy for a horny kid!
As I got older and started to dislike more and more people, I thought about moving to a small community of people in the woods.
Now I think about what the infrastructure would look like if I built my personal community, from scratch.
I get it, we all have carbon footprints. If you’re alive you’re going to want to drive a car, fly on a plane to go on vacation somewhere, and doom scroll TikTok on your phone. These are the perks of modern life and I’m not against them. I’m all for lowering your carbon footprint and collapsing the birth rate through voluntary birth control.
Fewer people on this planet will be better for those living here.
So how would you build a community from the ground up?
Step 1 — Find Your Tribe
I’ve written about this before but gather like-minded people together and make a plan. Move together once you’ve found a suitable location.
Step 2 — Find A Suitable Location
This is the hardest one but if you get it right will be the difference between surviving or thriving. You will need a find location with access to water and arable land to farm. The best land will be secluded with diverse vegetation for floral and fauna.
You will need to make sure there will be some means of energy production and waste removal because you will have families that will want to light their houses at night, poop and shower, and process foods that have been harvested.
I have often thought of getting one of those abandoned Spanish towns and moving my tribe there but the climate projections show Spain to turn into a burning hellscape in the future.
Step 3 — Build
The costs of construction for the common shared facilities will be a lot less when shared amongst your people. Sustainable and low-impact designs and practices can be incorporated into the design and construction of the community.
For example, underground storage (cisterns) of rainwater comes in handy. A larger septic system or mini wastewater treatment plant can be built to handle the wastewater. Of course, any plant matter that’s not used can be composted.
The trick is to find low-maintenance systems that don’t have to rely on outside help to keep running.
The second biggest puzzle piece here is energy production. I like solar a lot but there are other alternatives. If there is a stream nearby that runs year-round, you might want to consider using that for energy production. A windmill is good for small localized systems like a blower pump for your wastewater system.
There are a lot of options these days.
Step 4 — Farm & Preserve Food
Once the basic infrastructure is built you will need to think about food production and processing. Who’s going to grow the potatoes and feed for the chickens? Then preserve food. You’ll need to work together on this. I suggest a central processing area like a big barn located centrally to everyone’s house.
Step 5 — Sustain
The community will need to be sustained. Energy production, waste removal, clean water, food production, and maintenance will all be very important as the community matures. How will it be governed? How will the children be raised and educated? How do you keep intruders out?
Step 6 — Have Sex (Optional)
Ok, this one is just a remnant of my teenage horniness, but you do you. Your community can be anything you like! Want to dance naked around a bonfire during celestial events? Go right ahead.
Want to remain chaste and pure so you can all dress up as knights? Onward my liege!
Your community is about you and the friends you want in it. It’s only natural to gravitate to like-minded people.
It’s only normal to stick together and weather the storm that is coming. I’ll see you up north, neighbor.
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