As drastic as that sounds, it is what we need to address the climate crisis. And, although planetary collapse due to the climate crisis is inevitable or is happening as we speak, action can still be taken to avert some suffering. The same global shutdown that occurred during Covid needs to happen now but with some additions. In the US, Big Box Grocery stores with all its processed food and retail never shut down. We need only local, unprocessed food, along with reduced beef and dairy. A debt jubilee and annual income need to be implemented.
Because this is unfolding slowly, people, governments, and businesses do not see the urgency.
In the documentary “How Cuba Survived Peak Oil,” they were forced to change because oil was not coming from the Soviet Union anymore because of the collapse. They started growing food everywhere. This is what we need to do. We can imagine a new way to live locally without all the consumer goods we have been used to.
Also, the documentary “The Year the Earth Changed,” shows how during the global shutdown, the Earth was rebounding. Please watch both documentaries. We need to have some medical for people but not much else.
Shutdown the consumer economy before the Earth shuts us down. As impossible as this seems, that is what needs to happen. Industrialization is killing us.
We can imagine a much better world to live in without all this stuff.
https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the-power-of-community-how-cuba-survived-peak-oil-2006/
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