[mooreds]

Loved the message. Just like you can't run away from yourself (trust me), humanity can't run away from its collective self.

My favorite book about this is Lucifer's Hammer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer%27s_Hammer

Not perfect but certainly echoes the article's theme that we'll still be in society, even after a catastrophe, and will have to work within it.

[merpnderp]

I wish I could remember the book, but it was targeted at preppers by someone who'd lived through a temporary collapse of government in S. America. And his advice was if you are truly a prepper, you aren't storing guns, ammo, and food, you're working to get your local government to prepare for disaster events. And his reasoning was this, as soon as the central government failed, the smaller towns created militias which went around collecting food and supplies to be rationed by everyone.

[AstralStorm]

That won't work in a scenario of climate change, which is long term, slow.

The only solutions here are big systemic. It cannot even be attacked at a local level.

What does a local community do when the wells and reservoirs dry out? Where do they get the food from when there's country wide shortage?

Rationing only goes so far.