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“The Permaculture Grid.” A Prototype. New Myth #63 by Willi Paul,
“American utility companies are responsible for running approximately 5,800 power plants and about 450,000 high-voltage transmission lines, controlled by various devices which have been put into place over the past decades. Some of the utility companies which oversee the power grid reportedly use “antique computer protocols” which are “probably” safe from cyber hackers,” The New York Times reported.
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After the final twist, moan and arc weld of the United States electric grid in 2076 due to lightning and thunder storms and poor maintenance, the country faces rich on poor unrest, acute food shortages and evil footed darkness. Most ran to the cities, hoping for a sustainable re-gathering, abandoning their towns for the false security in equally broken state troopers and green technology.
The grid…
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was just talking to an old IRA refugee about his years of working off the books around the US and all the talented bricoleurs/tinkerers he met on the illegal immigrant labor market and it will be no small irony if the people who lead the way in future collapses are the ones most unwanted by the States in the here and now…
That is interesting. Maybe by being “outsiders” to the dominant systems these people will be in a better position when those systems collapse? The downside of that is the possibility that all the ignorant far-from-meek right-wing survivalists will be who inherent the earth.
I’m currently working with a handful of friends and family members to purchase a large area of land near the Canadian Rocky Mountains where we are planning to start our own permaculture community and begin opting out of most civilizational machinery. The hope is we will be able to build enough capacity prior to ‘systems failure’ to ride out the storms. We intend to be a space of alternative existing distinct from the mainstream but still participating at a minimum level. We jokingly talk about it as re-colonizing the planet, but more and more I think it’s pointless to take on oppressive and pathological civilizational systems directly.
What do you think? Resistance, revolt, exist, escape.. or a combination thereof?
If being is really about coping/adapting and modes of existence within ecologies of affordance then isn’t the best strategy ‘niche construction’, or working to compose alternative modes and terrains as lines of flight? Even rats leave sinking ships..
I’m in the camp that thinks that the rats have the right idea and not the captains when it comes to sinking ships, not sure tho given the nature(s) of the problems if there is really a place to get away to in the long-term but yeah making things better with what is at hand seems to be the best approach, as to what sorts of organizations/technologies one can successfully gear-into and or hack (for sustenance, self-defense, pleasure, etc) I think that remains to be tested locally as we go. Be good to have records of trials and errors as well as successes.
if you could (b)log your collective’s efforts that would be great and maybe will spur others to share as well.
off to talk food production/distribution with some government planning types, maybe I’ll share:
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/conversations/david-boarder-giles/5687614
http://www.wildonomics.com/