The following interview was recorded for the Poor Proles Almanac podcast with guest Zach Elfers, a forager, botanist, wildlands steward and researcher.
I think you strike at an important contradiction at the heart of this stuff, that of wanting to revolutionize how our communities operate without our communities themselves being interested in that.
My take is that any serious look at the near-term effects of climate change and at the dwindling supply of oil globally leads one to conclude that eventually our communities won’t *have* a choice, it will be made for them by external conditions.
Therefore, I think the smartest and possibly only play is to do as much as you can on your individual and local level, while creating ties with the people around you, to eventually expand and extend what you are doing into more of a communal effort once the current way of doing things is no longer energetically viable.
I think you strike at an important contradiction at the heart of this stuff, that of wanting to revolutionize how our communities operate without our communities themselves being interested in that.
My take is that any serious look at the near-term effects of climate change and at the dwindling supply of oil globally leads one to conclude that eventually our communities won’t *have* a choice, it will be made for them by external conditions.
Therefore, I think the smartest and possibly only play is to do as much as you can on your individual and local level, while creating ties with the people around you, to eventually expand and extend what you are doing into more of a communal effort once the current way of doing things is no longer energetically viable.