So much privilege in writing this and imagining how things could be different when I’m not in imminent danger, have enough food, water and shelter for my family. There’s much to say about the benefits of lived experience yet I’ve grown too reliant on a lifestyle and worldview that’s threatening the conditions for life on the Earth. What can any of us do to break free of this madness? Gandhi was a big advocate of experimenting with one’s own life and “being the change” you want to see in the world. I believe that we need to build our collective resilience and experiment with low footprint lifestyles while we still have some abundance “wiggle room”. Any climate crisis/plague/collapse future will challenge our infrastructure, economic systems and political capacity. Agriculture (feeding ourselves), general “ecosystem services” (water, air, soil, everything nature does to keep a biosphere intact) and who knows what else will be strained to their limits. While we still can, it will help us to learn from the past and share contemporary experiments in how to live…