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Over the summer news came out about PFAS in makeup.

Maybe this is useful and on topic? The grief of collapse is just the grief of death but you also can expect your kids/grandkids could be toast and your culture will be buried in the dust. The scale of these problems puts them essentially in the category of religious problems. Thus, the problem calls...

semiERE could also allow for occupational freedom otherwise non-existent in one's chosen professional field. This could lead to better social opportunities and connections useful for resiliency. For example, instead of being the only one physically capable of biking to work, or who has any interest ...

I was a software developer for a year and I quit because the work was pointless and I was lonely because my coworkers were square. Now, I am a mechanic and a tutor and my work has purpose and my coworkers are hip and maybe I'll have someone to go camping with someday. I make enough to pay my bills a...

Excited for the presentation.

I get "sinister guru" or "cult-y ego maniac" vibes from Leo Gura. Maybe not so much in this video but definitely in other videos of his I've seen.

Has anyone ever experimented with restricting their internet use? Currently, I am doing so. I turned off wi-fi. I'm trying only to access the internet during specific, limited periods of time via ethernet (to make it less convenient). Maybe in the future I will restrict it further, if the experience...

Barefoot: I can barefoot run on pavement. Not as fast as with shoes but it's pretty decent. Sadly this means my toe shoes are basically obsolete now, as their only remaining use was for running. I do barefoot soccer now (just juggling or passing either solo or in small groups). That has a nice web o...

Found this as digital copy from my local library!

Wow, that's quite a story! Ah, I didn't mean like spying, but more the kind of knowledge a person gets when they know the person who grows their food personally. You'd notice if they bought a large yacht, basically. The only point about the ethnic groups is that I can trust they would use the money ...

@white belt I absolutely agree. There is a hierarchy of how to meet one's "needs"...first being not to need it, then being not to own it, then being not to buy it, and so on... But certainly there are cases when the only way to meet a "need" is to buy it, and then one will be pre...

"devil's sooty brother"...LOL. I think we are at the same place then, more or less. I do think, however, that if you spend more on some good because it is "sustainable," then you must be certain that that person's lifestyle and business is absolutely, without a doubt, sustainable...

In terms of ecological impact, is it correct to say that the impact multiplier of spending does not apply (or hardly applies) if the source is sufficiently removed from the industrial economy? And thus the jafi heuristic does not apply in certain purchasing circumstances? For example, if I spend mor...

Hey Cam! Welcome to the forum. I'm also in my early 20s and currently reskilling myself in light of revelations of collapse. Permaculture sounds like it'll be a great learning opportunity -- I'm very jealous as we don't have anything like that in my neck of the cornfields! I sympathize with the dabb...

I thought this was just really cool!

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/05 ... ntury.html

Sorry for the delay! Thank you all for your comments, thoughts, and encouragement. I really appreciate it. Based on all your advice, it seems like a more light-hearted, active approach rooted in non-judgement, compassion and humor is the one to take. Intuitively that feels right and it's really help...

@Hristo Botev, I really appreciate your response. To take Wynes and Nicholas’s recommendations [no fly/no babies/no car/etc.] to heart would mean cutting oneself off from modern life. It would mean choosing a hermetic, isolated existence and giving up any deep connection to the future. Indeed, takin...

@UK-with-kids, I still think there's a really strong argument to not have kids if you believe the world of the future will be dramatically less food + physically secure, either from human conflict or weather. There's also just the fact that life in modern industrial society is of questionable value,...

@jacob, thank you for reminding me of that Leopold quote. I definitely do not want to end up bitter. I hope to end up barefoot and happy in the sun. I do vacillate about this One Problem to Rule Them All; some days are better than others; talking about it on worse days definitely helps. I don't have...

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Oh believe me, I have those days too, LOL. Best thing then is just plenty of water to keep the pipes flowing.