economic self-sufficiency in those communities. For example, we have technology to revolutionize agriculture through agrivoltaic power, hydroponic and aeroponic farming. And the stupid immigrant roundups will leave our rural areas with crops rotting on the ground unless we can use technology to create robots to help with produce harvests.
And what about textile manufacturing? And paper production?
Hemp. A hectare of hemp sequesters the same amount of CO2 as a hectare of new forest, and hemp seeds have nutritional value, hemp fibers make good quality strong clothing, rope and we can make paper from hemp. We would deplete a lot less forest this way.
And, if we can figure out nuclear fusion (as opposed to fission), the nuclear waste we have could provide electricity, and of course Nikola Tesla maintained that if we could harness the electromagnetic force of the earth itself, we could have electricity for the whole planet. Not to mention solar and wind power, as well as hydroelectric.
In the west we need to teach people to capture rainwater and snow melt, and create dew collectors.
We need microlending that can help people re-think the old 'job' paradigm and start cottage industries.
What about community gardens? Urban gardens? Rooftop gardens? It is possible for us to begin growing enough produce to feed ourselves and if we learn to can and pickle the food we can set ourselves up for a whole year and in the meantime eat MUCH better than the pesticide/fertilizer laden produce we get at the supermarket - tasteless tomatoes, mushy apples and so on.
Because make no mistake. Trump hates this country and wants revenge on every single American. He is a monster, and Elon a tyrant.
The need right now to rethink how we organize ourselves locally and statewide is urgent because all the stuff the federal government has done for us without us even thinking about it is rapidly swirling down into the Trump sewer. What will be happening over the next year or two is our government will lose $4.5 trillion in revenue and we will have cut after cut after cut. Republicans will end the ACA, and Trump wants to fold Medicare and Social Security into a mega-fund that he and his billionaire parasite cronies can speculate with on Wall Street. And when that bubble pops, our elderly will be eating out of dumpsters.
Because. He. Doesn't. Give. A. Shit.
So all these federal services will be devolving as unfunded mandates for states and local governments. We need to begin collaborative community efforts NOW to allow us to fill this upcoming vacuum locally. It can be done, but we the people have to have the guts to move forward in cooperation with each other. And I'm not talking about preppign, just about how we will fill the gaps left as federal services are cut and then ended over time.
Yeah, the federal government is rapidly getting fucked courtesy of Chaos Trump and Tyrant Musk, but that doesn't mean our communities have to die out.
By the way, since Musk is not confirmed or elected, and DOGE does not exist with the sanction of Congress, Eyore is cutting services but our taxes are going to stay the same. Does this mean we are going to be taxed without representation? Just asking for a friend...
On edit: And think a moment about barter and how those economies might be created.
Oh and there is nothing utopian about all this. This is how our great grandparents actually lived.
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