How pre­pared am I for when the lights go out, when the oil party ends, when global warm­ing results in the oceans ris­ing, or nuclear war breaks out, or the global econ­omy totally col­lapses, or tsunamis, tor­na­does, hur­ri­canes, wild­fires, earth­quakes, and vol­ca­noes change everything?

What will I be left with, when the lights go out?

I will still have a sense of humor, I will still live my life gen­uinely amongst a cir­cle of tal­ented, skilled, and knowl­edge­able friends I see and work with daily, and I will hold my fam­ily close with lov­ing sup­port. I will con­tinue to eat a healthy, organic, mainly veg­e­tar­ian diet and I will man­age my stress with­out hold­ing onto it.

Per­haps most impor­tantly, I will still wake up every morn­ing know­ing what I’ll be doing and why, and this will con­tinue to sat­isfy and ful­fill me. I don’t work for the dol­lar; I work for humanity’s sur­vival, I work for Gaiya, the liv­ing breath­ing Earth. I work in bal­ance and har­mony with cre­ation, not in order to con­trol, manip­u­late, or detract from it.

My life adds life to life.

Can you say this of your life?

What excites me is, rather than fear­ing the end of “life as we know it”, we could be eagerly antic­i­pat­ing a life exactly as I describe above. What is impor­tant need not change, unless your life is sadly lack­ing any of the above. Post-modern liv­ing doesn’t need to be imag­ined as a step down; a self-sufficient com­mu­nity can be a glo­ri­ous step up or step for­ward, a step into a more humane, sane, sat­is­fy­ing present.

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