#graffiti #classwar #fightoligarchy #elbowsup #collapseaware
We don’t inherit the Earth — we borrow it.
The question is, how will we return it?
Jonathan Safran Foer reminds us: the ethical act isn’t perfection, it’s persistence — care, even now.
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Small acts of care are world-repair in motion.
#lifeboatacademy #collapseaware #socialjustice #reciprocity #soilandsoul
If you have a team of two or more people in your landscape interested in weaving together ecological and social justice projects, we have admin support, digital tools, and bioregional strategy to support you!
Check out our announcement blog to learn more!
https://regeneratecascadia.org/announcing-the-launch-of-the-cascadia-bioregen-landscapes-program/
#bioregionalism #climatechange #climatejustice #environment #collapseaware
The Story That Should Not Have Been:
This was not how the human story was meant to end..
Not with melting glaciers and rising walls.
Not with billionaires escaping upward while the oceans crept in.
Not with the silence of forests drowned out by the hum of devices..
We began with bare feet and open hands,
curious, uncertain, staring into the dark with fire in our eyes..
We learned to grow, gather, and grieve.
We built homes, songs, and systems.
We touched the moon.
And then....we touched nothing.
Nothing real.
Just numbers on screens and dopamine loops,
algorithms tighter than the bonds between neighbours.
We called it progress.
We made gods of GDP and efficiency.
We grew the economy like it was a crop,
and burned the soil beneath it.
We built machines that outpaced our wisdom.
Tools without elders.
Profit without pause.
Comfort without community.
The Earth groaned,
and we handed out loyalty cards.
The sky cracked,
and we installed air-conditioning.
We did not adapt... we monetised the crisis.
Democracy?
We sold that, too.
Votes drowned in money.
Truth fragmented by code.
Fear rebranded as policy.
The strongmen did not seize power.
We gave it to them...for stability, for screens, for noise.
Inequality?
Designed, not accidental.
A system where five men own more than half the world.
While billions hustle for rent,
they own the future, the data, the air.
Let us not pretend everyone chose this.
Some resisted.
Some warned.
Many were silenced,
while the architects of collapse called it freedom
and moved their assets offshore.
And now...
the insects are gone.
The water is plastic.
The children are anxious,
and the gods are corporations.
So we ask..
Is this how it ends?
The great arc of human becoming..
from toolmakers to terraformers to a footnote in a geology textbook?
It did not have to be this way.
The warnings were clear.
The crossroads came again and again,
and still, we pressed the accelerator.
But even now..
if there is a fragment of clarity left,
if there is one ember unextinguished....
let it burn for this:
Not a return to what was,
but a return to what matters.
Not endless expansion,
but rooted kinship.
Not empire,
but ecosystem.
Not more,
but enough.
Let it be said that we stood at the edge...
saw clearly,
named the failure,
and turned.
Not to be saved..
but to begin again.
#CollapseAware
#ClimateCrisis
#SystemChange
#DeepAdaptation
#ClimateJustice
#Anthropocene
#EcoGrief
#PostCapitalism
🧵 Ohmbudsman Digest – June 2, 2025
– Subsea cable defense becomes transnational strategy
– Ukraine drones knock out Russia’s bombers
– VA scientists face publication censorship
– Hypernormalization: functioning inside collapse
Signal, not noise → https://ohmbudsman.com/monday-june-2nd-2025/
Want to understand what it means to have a bioregional strategy? Watch this recording to learn about flow funding, collaborative finance, and how to work together in a non-extractive funding ecosystem.
#flowfunding #biofi #collapseaware #bioregionalism #cascadia #regenerate
Our Farmastery experience. Once you experience it, it’s clear; until you experience it, it’s unthinkable.
https://medium.com/@emotusoperandi/fair-share-ethics-df9116abdea7
#farmastery #Fairsharefootprint #fairshareethics #workaway #climatealarmed #collapseaware #wereallinthistogether
Attention Scrollers! If any of these interest you, let's connect!
Current Reads:
Why Didn't We Riot? A Black Man in Trumpland, Isaac J Bailey
Current Listen:
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes - and Its Implications, David Deutsch
2025 so far:
Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, Yuval Noah Harari
Fascism: A Warning, Madeleine Albright
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World, Anne Applebaum
Looking to connect with like-minded people in the #fediverse :fediverse: :NoNazis:
Working in #finance in the #nonprofit sector. Doing everything I can to get ready for the storm. :earth: :ExtinctionRebellion:
Reading List: https://jjwebster.com/never-stop-exploring/
#tfw: Dir Leute, die erst seit 3-4 Jahren ans #Klima denken, nach 16 Jahren antifossilem Kampf vorwerfen, für die fossile Industrie anzuschaffen, weil Du als Antikapitalist berechtigte Skepsis ggü dem weltrettenden Potenzial von #EAutos anmeldest. 🤦♂️
Liebe Moderates, ich versteh Euch - wenn das mit den Elektroautos nix wird (as in Weltrettung), dann ist Euer letztes magisches Vehikel zur Weltrettung am Arsch. Dann müsstet Ihr #collapseaware werden, & dazu Antikaps.
& Ende der Welt hin/her: das wäre nen Schritt zu weit.
https://steadyhq.com/de/friedlichesabotage/posts/f09af429-bc42-4c94-a14a-d21e4114f614
The Lifeboat Academy offers a tested, flexible approach to building highly collaborative and effective teams.
If you're interested, drop us a line at friends@lifeboat.academy, and/or please share with a friend!
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The Lifeboat Network is looking for volunteer Switchboard Operators. You get access to a Resilience Help Desk to help connect those offering support with the people and organizations who need it.
If this sounds interesting, send us an email at friends@lifeboat.academy and/or please share this post with a friend!
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We’re looking for organizations with resources allocated to support community food sovereignty and access to land to help us secure the first campus of the Lifeboat Academy.
If you know of a foundation or other organization who might be interested, let us know: friends@lifeboat.academy
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"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect." - Aldo Leopold
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"We're all in this together."
Who are the goats in your herd? <3
#lifeboatacademy #lifeboats #climatechange #climatecrisis #collapse #collapseaware #community #communityorganising #farm #farmanimals #communityfarm #permaculture #regenerativeag #climateemergency #climateresponse #relocalisation #relocalization