I remember in Sunday School in Mississippi (before Baptists were taken over by the fundies. I was very young) There was a story about a guy who stored grain because he knew there was a drought coming. This story impressed me. I remember I wanted to have the wisdom of that guy (even though he did other things I found questionable. Genesis 37-50 The Story of Joseph.)

I have that wisdom but I need your help. Let's use the framework of local government to take care of our future. It's there. Wise people in government have already placed the foundations for us. Quietly. No fanfare. No politics. They put it in place and waited. (Does this seem mysterious? It is, but nothing surprises me any more.)

In Will County Illinois there are people who recognize a storm is a-coming. I don't know what form "the storm" will take, or if its a continuation of a series of unrelated events, like is currently evolving.

We must prepare for our future generations. Has history taught you nothing? If you're Christian, haven't you read your Bible?

This is from the website of Carolyn Baker.
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Bill Mollison, one of the co-originators of Permaculture says that, "Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order." The intuitively forming ideal is extended families occupying their own private permaculture design with a number of these families occupying a watershed. A number of watersheds constitute a bioregion. This is a natural social/political framework in which the needs of the earth are re-presented in human society because the humans are advocating for the life and gaining survival from that life. We might call this biological democracy.

Human/earth centered, rather than object centered, this new movement promises to become the next human culture. Human social institutions tend to form around food survival systems and be resonant with the morals and purpose of those different activities to gain food; we would expect the new culture to do the same. When some or all of the seed communities make it through the apocalypse, they will be the ancestors.

Many flail about trying to save the dying beast of empire by recycling their tin cans or inventing free energy machines but it is just common sense that if we want to aid the life of our great, great grandchildren we will ignore the dying beast and put our living energies into the new way of life. read the complete article

Does this mean you get to quit recycling? No! The mores
must be well established. Does this mean we gather weapons and build compounds in a tribal-like environment? No! This is the 21st century. This is the time where we beat swords into plowshares. It is not us versus them. It is us together. We must recognize that all have the same goal; To stay alive. Even those who seem to be different than us.