With our food systems on the verge of collapse, it's the plutocrats v life on Earth

[Hortensis]

11. Well, hope your new garden's coming along nicely and

and that's not your back yard. If it's not, sounds like you believe it's time we got on it. Fall planting! Need shade cloth? Buy it while it's available.

I'm not just being sarcastic. If most households are even somewhat more resilient than the complete dependence so many have descended to, all of society is. The food chain can't completely break down in communities where a lot of households normally produce some food, allowing more elasticity and resilience of supply when stressed.

But bottom line, feeding ourselves is above all our own responsibility, however that's planned for. With articles like this, can't claim not to be warned. This time last century 80% of households routinely produced some food for themselves, even if it was just a potato patch to smother weeds behind the garage or a quartet of fruit trees shading a patio.

Personally, my #1 means of staving off starvation is the vote. Nothing's done to 250M voters that they don't allow. But for those not ready to start gardening, of course to at least planting some low maintenance berrying shrubs, to have in your pocket so to speak, and a stock of seeds of plants that can also produce viable seed for continuation.

And voting as if past foolish could turn into a matter of life or death.

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