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...

Published December 22nd 2025 Edited 17th January 2026 Leadership in Collapse Coaching?, It's All About Trutopian, Collapse Fantasies 'More Than a Mohawk, Why Thrutopian Punks Don't Just Burn It Down" Feature by Rachel Pryor Bending The Arc Magazine It's on Substack, here Rachel Pryor (MCC 1999 - 2018) is a coach, systemic facilitator and creator of transformative tools that support leadership during collapse and transition Punk was never a radical counter culture. Claiming it is a crude attempt to overwrite the real counter-culture, out of which leaderless collective grass-roots enviro-anarchism and the Deep Green Resistance were born.  I Have A Problem With Leaders Anarchy is a philosophy of leaderless organisation, and I have seen it work in small communities. I have seen anarchy bring 1000s of people together to organise and coordinate resistance and the defence of nature in the 1990s. So, what is " Leadership during collapse" and transition? "I...

What Aee We Going To Do When Supermarket Shelves Are Empty? Something Dr Gail Bradbrook has already called for, identifying 2 key areas of need for organisation around the collapse of this civilisation. "What are we going to do when the Supermarket Shelves are Empty" or more to the point, what are we going to do when agriculture collapses?  Because this is not a distribution issue, it's one of disrupted seasons, precipitation, and climate.  Bradbrook identifies mutual aid and food banks as community forces for good, and I agree with her: Community cohesion is important for survival. In the context of new age emergence, however, AMOC collapse and the world beyond 1.5°C are very different to the world we leave behind. Surviving catastrophe and localised collapse takes more than imaginal space and personal development. This has left a vacuum in the prepper conversation on Youtube to other people doing the hard sell for sponsorship and  donations. Perpetuating old...

Published December 23 2025  Update January 17 2026 The primarily purpose of this blog post is to promote good mental health through contact with nature. This is especially for people experiencing climate Anxiety and climate related depression. I don't care what people believe in, however I think some people's approach to nature connection and therapy is deeply flawed. I am concerned that Dr Gail Bradbrook is taken in by Ceremonialists and suggests that they should be attending to climate grief and depression when there are psychiatric and psychological studies that indicate that prolonged contact with nature and gardening good for our mental health.  But the ceremonialists aren't offering nature therapy using medically proven techniques and peer reviewed data. Instead they are using New Age Pic'n'mix psychobabble. They are likely to do more damage, than help. Meaningful activity in nature is a psychiatrically proven non- medication intervention to ease Generalised ...

First Published November 22 2026 Edited January 17 2026 The English landscape is ancient and I think this ancient landscape is deeply misunderstood by many people who talk about connection to the land. The megaliths in the English landscape are a distraction. They are mostly out-of-date communal calendars, not unlike the more portable astrolabe or tombs. They are interesting, but the living ancient landscape is where we can best learn the connection to nature and the land in a meaningful and deeply fulfilling way. Natural historic features in the English Landscape tell a story of missing people. The hedges and woodlands which once supported the livelihoods of whole communities of woodcutters, coppicers, bodegers, hudlers, charcoal makers and many more trades related to coppicing. The story of where most of these skilled men went is sad and it has resulted in the decline of ancient woodlands on a massive scale. Coppice on large estates is largely neglected, regarded as not economically ...

1st published 22 December 2025 Edited 17 January 2026 1 De-escalation of confrontation . When Preppers declare they have Voted for Russias Puppet Party, and then start telling people about humour, while weaponising the Union flag. None of these traits is suggestive of any ability to be good citizens. We don't need far right ideas spread by Russian agitators and politicians taking money from foreign states. So the thinking behind de-escalation, is that its good for your mental health to be less paranoid about those around you. We are already living in collapse. We have time to teach our neighbours. Share in a an allotment or join a growing group. People are interested in prepping, to stop people raiding you, teach them what to do, set up community food stores and distribution hubs. Build resistant communities. 2 Multiple and low tech nature based water purification techniques:  Don't rely on shop bought water filters learn multiple techniques for making drinking water from dirty...

First Published December 22nd 2025 Edited January 17th 2026 What We Are Getting Wrong With Collapse Adaptation We are underestimating the combination of events we are already experiencing Severe Heat, combined with Wet Bulb Temperatures, can damage some plants, kill wildlife, and harm humans. Slow climate-driven failure of agriculture to provide the staples we need to survive: Wheat, barley and rye crop failures. We are already in a slow collapse Rice is already becoming toxic: "Rising global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) concentrations and surface temperatures could negatively affect rice yields and  nutritional quality ; however, their effects on arsenic accumulation in  paddy  rice have not been assessed concurrently. We aimed to assess the impact of increases in CO 2  and temperature (individually and in combination) on arsenic concentrations in rice, characterise soil properties that might influence arsenic uptake, and model the associated risks of cancer a...