http://magictransistor.tumblr.com/post/84385092271/ocd-approved-fall-out-shelters-family-radiation
*Civil defense in the fallout shelter, which may be seen someday as the precursor of the climate-crisis shelter.
Continuing on… what is to be done?
You know hurricanes are coming to an area completely unprepared to deal with their impact.
A PM from the former government has just been hauled before an inquest into a small scale green readiness campaign – home insulation of all things. So even if the new regime wasn’t set solely on an all stick no carrot radical economic restructure, they still might be a little shy to act. Cause politics. This despite their love of emulation of the US, their hugely militaristic mindset (BORDER FORCE ASSEMBLE!) and the US military being the only body taking climate threats seriously (solely to protect the interests of the Empire, not its citizens, but still…)
And there’s stories already of death-trap bushfire bunkers in the sunburnt country.
What do you do in this window of time available that isn’t prepperpunk cum live-on-the-set-of-MadMax LARPing? Or just Jane Suburban quietly digging a backyard bunker.
We, collectively, survived the Bomb, but we’re still afraid of the sky.
Maybe it’s a chance for new forms of community organization to emerge. Ya know, like the Scouts did from the horror of the Boer War. It doesn’t have to be all Doomsday Cults. It could be… like… underground barn raisings. Or something. But right now is the time to think about this.
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 