I don’t think there is anything that can be done on a scale big enough to make a difference.

We fire apes are doing what species do — maximizing our rate of power dissipation.

Yea, we have these big brains (which also dissipate a lot of power!), but our intelligence isn’t really influencing what Lotka and Odum argued was the Fourth Law of Thermodynamics.

Those of us who understand what is going on are outliers. Those of us outliers who are taking personal actions to ride out the coming crash are outliers even among the outliers!

So “now what?”

Grow food. As much as you reasonably can. If you cannot, get your food from local people who grow it, and support them by helping out, if you possibly can.

Join with others of like mind. It doesn’t need to be perfect, but it needs to be. The days of the “rugged individualist” are over, fuelled by what Catton called “take over” or “draw down”.

Subvert the dominant paradigm. It almost doesn’t matter which dominant paradigm! Divest from passive investment. Reduce your income. Drive much less. Downsize your life. Consider these as practice for post-crash living!

That’s how I sum up my approach!