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Let's face it, 1.5 is dead. And unless a miracle happens, we'll shoot past 2 degrees in the next ten or fifteen years. After that, with climate feedbacks, tipping points, and cascading effects, 3 degrees of warming or even higher is probable by the end of this century.
That can mean only one thing. A collapse of our fragile, tenuous, global industrial civilization. It might happen gradually, it might happen suddenly, but it will happen and it will be catastrophic.
Our rulers know about this. And yet they've chosen to do nothing. Or, actually, they've chosen to go all in, pushing for increased consumption, stronger economic growth, and even more fossil fuel use — because it's incredibly profitable. 
So, what can you and I do?
Jem Bendell says our best choice is to accept what is happening to our world, embrace the collapse, and turn our efforts toward what comes next. He says: "We’re going to collapse into community, and what we can play for is what we find there when it’s all we have."
@breadandcircuses I don't think it's too early or defeatist to start preparing our communities for greater self-sufficiency.
@clfh @breadandcircuses Agreed. Shortages in food, water, energy and spare parts for pretty much everything are inevitable. It’s not if but when. Now is the time to start thinking about what we can do now to make this less destructive later.
@xerge @clfh @breadandcircuses
A lot of those adaptations reduce carbon emissions and other harms. Win win.
@clfh @breadandcircuses a future of functional communities is really the only possible future. So we might as well get to it.
@RevXenoFact @clfh @breadandcircuses
Ain't like we've got anything better to do.
Not too far from where I live, there was a living history museum -- Willowbrook. They recreated life in the 19th century -- had a blacksmith shop, old printing press, etc. Unfortunately, they had to dismantle the "village" and sent different components to various museums in Maine. It would have been a great place to centralize old ways of doing things. The Shaker Village (a bit further away) does the same thing, but unfortunately, their numbers are dwindling. We need to support folks who know the old ways of doing things. They might come in handy real soon... @RevXenoFact @clfh @breadandcircuses
@DoomsdaysCW Having been born in the 60s I have a lot of skills that have probably faded elsewhere. It's weird.
@RevXenoFact Yeah, same here. I even apprenticed on a hot lead typesetting apparatus in high school before health and safety cracked down on all that. Molten lead and modern teenagers was not a good mix.
@DoomsdaysCW I cook, know how to develop photos, bit of woodworking and crafting, typing, tons of historical knowledge about stuff I could PROBABLY action in time, medicine, etc.
Sometimes it's also knowing what is POSSIBLE.