The Survival Collective
A potential path forward into the perilous future.
Last week, I wrote the following in my post entitled, “Survival”:
A good portion of my waking hours are spent considering how and where me and my children will live when shit goes down. Because I lack the money to build a fallout bunker (nor do I think that’s a smart survival strategy), my preparation is focused on systems I can afford, chiefly community building and food. I’m asking myself what kinds of people and which specific people I want around to support me and my kids in the case of an emergency. I’m asking myself where our food and water will come from when grocery stores close and food distribution networks become inoperable. I’m asking where I’ll live when climate migrants rove the planet in search of tolerable temperatures, arable land, and water. I’m also asking what can be done today to prepare for answering these questions about tomorrow. More on that soon.
Today is soon.
The post and paragraph were me indirectly describing an idea I’ve been pondering for the last few weeks. The idea concerns building a survival collective —a network of people, projects, and groups focused on the collective survival of the human species.
Survivalcollective.net is the idea’s bare bones website. There’s a short explanation of what the collective is about, a list of categories of that’ll eventually be filled out with specific practitioners working towards collective survival, and a mailing list sign up form. The bulk of the work I’m doing on this project is offline and I hope the bulk of the its activity will be similarly analogue.
My request of you:
Please enter your email address to the mailing list.
Please email me (david@survivalcollective.net or reply to Substack) any people or groups you think should be in the collective’s network.
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