The article discusses the impact of the climate crisis, asserting that as climate disasters become more prevalent, traditional individualistic communities may become less viable. It suggests that the future will demand real community connections as crucial to survival and resilience against these challenges, with the author proposing that the chaos expected in the near future will necessitate a return to strong community ties for mutual support. This shift offers a chance to reimagine living together, focusing on interdependence rather than isolation.
Our future will be in part ever newer, as we enter deep into a terrifying unknown, and in part ever more ancient, drawing on needs and capacities that we fantasised had been left behind.
In the rough times that are coming, the fate I term the Chaoscene, that atomisation will be seen clearly as an increasingly unaffordable luxury.
Strong ties within community will often make the difference, henceforth, between flourishing and failing and even, gradually but increasingly, between living and dying.
The climate crisis presents an opportunity to reimagine how we live together, turning away from atomisation and embracing a more interconnected existence.
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