Collapse Adaptation

First Published January 8th 2026 Edited and republished January 15th 2026 Updated 25th January 2026 I started growing Typha Latifolia a few years ago in my ponds, and I started to understand why this plant was revered by indigenous people across the globe. Although it is an invasive species in Hawaii. In the UK, it is one of many native wetland species, and it's an important plant for carbon capture. The annual biomass output from Typha is phenomenal. We could be cleaning our rivers and capturing CO2 into a plant that fills the cells within its leaves with CO2 and pressurises it.  HIGH CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATIONS IN AERENCHYMA OF TYPHA LATIFOLIA Of course, this is more nuanced, but there is potential to capture CO2 in much higher concentrations than just the biomass. Typha has the potential to survive temperatures as high as  48°C, as well as at the Arctic Circle. This plant has been found almost everywhere humans have inhabited over the last 100,000 years. Indigenous people...

#SolidarityPrepping #soliprepping #preppingtogether is an international alternative mutual aid network which are primarily anti fascist. We promote community cooperation and counter the dominance of the far right wing politics, climate denial and hope-porn (hopium) in preparedness. We are also a group which are tacking the reality of climate change and climate change survival through cooperation and mutual aid. Many of us ls feel the need to counter some of the Hope Porn being pushed by green influencers because it isn't helpful and lulls people into inaction becasue they cannot grasp the urgency. A lot of these notions are also exclusively white, middle class and were never meant for the hoipoloi. There's is no intentional outreach h into ethnic minorities from these movements. They offer no solution to the global south. Thrutopia : something which most people in the global south will not experience as their crops fail, droughts worsen, severe storms cause small countries'...

Climate movement: Why activists are preparing for climate collapse: A growing part of the climate movement is turning to "solidarity prepping." "At a camp in Brandenburg, activists prepared themselves for the inevitable collapse with workshops, first aid courses and discussions." https://table.media/climate/feature/climate-movement-why-activists-are-preparing-for-climate-collapse "Preparedness, especially when it’s called ‘prepping’, has a bad name, and for good reason. The prevalent image of the prepper is a right-wing, white, middle-class cis man in his 40s or 50s who stockpiles guns, food and ammunition, prioritised in roughly that order. You can watch reality TV shows about this guy, or YouTube channels made by him that might as well be titled How to Survive the Apocalypse Alone in the Woods with a Hatchet Eating Squirrels You Hunt With the Aforementioned Hatchet." https://www.redpepper.org.uk In Solidarity Prepping There's no expectation of any st...

The myths of the lone survivor are nonsense. But the trope of tin can stacking is true of certain types of climate denying preppers. This isn't about them. But when climate commentators and podcasts resort to marginalising people who apply their outdoor survival skills to coping with the every day of climate and ecological collapse with tropes like "primitive", "going backwards" and "Plucky survivalists roaming the post collapse landscape" and "dystopian survivalism" we risk losing the messaging to the Far-Right . Berlins 4 day winter power outage was caused by a (green) left-wing sabotage of businesss, and a residential area was in the crossfire. What the Far-Right and oligarchs media won't tell you is that a Ukranian Refugee mutual aid group , exclusive of government direction opened their community centre which had power to the community. This is called #SolidarityPrepping or #PreppingTogether If we aren't talking about how we pl...

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Specifically, UK Problems Based On What Has Already Happened. Let's speculate for a moment: 1.5°C and increasing. Emissions too have been increasing, so things are not getting better. Adapting to Climate Risk Heatwaves & Wet Bulb events Wet bulb adaptation requires knowledge  & an understanding that these are the killer temperature/humidity combinations and we should avoid being out in them. We should also be aware of how microclimates trap heat and moisture and can therefore be warmer than the forecast temperatures, which is why carrying a personal thermometer/ hygrometer or WBT combined unit with a built-in Wet Bulb Table calculator with a data logger is recommended. Technology for #Lifehouses during Heatwaves and Wet Bulb Events? Directly running Peltier cool air blowers from Photovoltaics into well-insulated spaces to create "cool off" zones. Thermometers with data logging and Bluetooth connectivity with an app, such as the Inkbird, allow heat /humidity tracki...