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Two weeks ago, I shared with you a lament on the loss of the village, She Speaks: Where is the village?<\/a><\/span><\/em>. I wrote from the perspective of someone who, in her youth, felt failed by that purported village, and also on behalf of a girl whose death apparently inconvenienced people.<\/p>\n

Today, I want to talk with you about the desperate need for this village once more.<\/p>\n

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Do you want to read a paper so disheartening and alarming that it could very well send you to therapy \u2013 or deeper into the countryside? I’m talking about The Climate Change Paper So Depressing It’s Sending People to Therapy. <\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a detailed analysis about how long we have left before the climate crisis obliterates what we know to be normal, although, I could argue that\u2019s already happened. Make no mistake, it\u2019s going to get so much worse. Here\u2019s the quote that struck me: “When I say starvation, destruction, migration, disease, and war, I mean in your own life. With the power down, soon you won’t have water coming out of your tap. You will depend on your neighbors for food and some warmth. You will become malnourished. You won’t know whether to stay or go. You will fear being violently killed before starving to death.”<\/p>\n

I admit that when I think about the worst impacts of climate change, I view them as somewhat removed. In Muskoka, we are surrounded by the largest collection of fresh water lakes on the planet. We\u2019re landlocked and much higher than sea level. And yet there will be wars over water \u2013 there already are. Yes, climate change will increasingly impact us. Hottest summers on record. Colony collapse disorder taking out the bees, and countless other biosphere losses. The destabilization of the polar vortex means our winters will be more variable in temperature, causing more intense freeze\/thaw cycles which will bring flooding, ice storms, white-outs, etc. More precipitation, causing more accidents, and more people being isolated because battling the snow is too risky or difficult. Those people are part of our village. How many disabled, elderly, or isolated neighbours and community members do you check on? How many do I check on?<\/p>\n

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The above quote brought me firmly back to the Now. The social systems we have in place are being eroded by a money-driven government \u2013 activists are exhausted by the efforts to make sure those most vulnerable among us are supported, and seeing that work undone is utterly stultifying. Yet, still we fight.<\/p>\n

Currency \u2013 money \u2013 is a man-made system. It is not natural nor based in nature. I believe this system will collapse and I\u2019m far from the only one. There\u2019s a temptation to become insular when confronted with horrifying information like experts saying we have as little as one decade and possibly a century before the complete collapse of civilization as we know it. People become hyper-focused on their belongings, their personal safety and that of their family. The hoarding and prepping begins. Walls go up to keep those in need out. Every man for himself, or so goes the adage.<\/p>\n

What if we tried a different way? An earth-based, woman-led revolution. The earth is telling us everything we need to know, if we would only listen. The medicine women, midwives, Indigenous women, and leaders have been ringing this bell for years. Could we listen and adapt? Could we examine the current exploitative patriarchal, capitalist, colonizing system that is hell-bent on wringing every last drop of treasure from our earth until it\u2019s too late, and decide to try a biophilic (love of life) path?<\/p>\n

When the economy collapses, what will your currency be?<\/p>\n

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The very first earth day I recall as a child taught me that something Bad was happening to our planet and it was the fault of the people. I made sure to take short showers, recycle, and carpool. As I aged, I realized that we the people can do our part, of course, but holding industry accountable should be a priority over our individual actions. You couldn\u2019t create in a year the waste that restaurants make in a week. I\u2019m not saying to give up on your individual actions \u2013 please, don\u2019t. But recognize that these efforts give us the luxury of feeling like we\u2019ve done our part, while industry dumps toxic waste into waterways, inundates us with single-use disposable plastic to a degree that it\u2019s inside almost all of us, and indiscriminately snatches up our pristine water just to sell us the plastic that contains us. This is a radically unsustainable linear system. The earth\u2019s systems are closed-loop and wasteless. We need to get real about the culprits of climate change and we need to get together and stand up because there are more of us – but the laws have stifled our voices and replaced them with dollar bills. How much is your voice worth, if money talks?<\/p>\n

Let me tell you about my contingency plan, my renewable resource, my currency. It\u2019s the village. It\u2019s community. I invest in human beings, not stocks; I grow my tribe, not my arsenal; I believe in the people around me because I don\u2019t believe a god will save us. I realized early on that I couldn\u2019t learn everything. I didn\u2019t have the time or the skill to memorize every poisonous and edible mushroom in the forest \u2013 but I know who does. I focused on other things instead of growing and canning my preserves, though I\u2019m learning \u2013 but I know plenty of people with this skill. If I look at my community like a library, I can point to the shelves that contain the knowledge that I, and we all, will need, when this gets bad. And in turn, I have many things I offer; passions and skills that I can exchange for the goods and efforts offered by others. Even so, I believe that every community member is valuable simply because they are alive. I don\u2019t believe in people left behind, regardless of what they offer or what they need.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to scare you. I want to prepare you. Things will change, we will be confronted with decisions and losses that we can\u2019t fathom now. But you have time; find your people, have the conversations, show up and make sure you are heard. We are all alive in this precarious time in order to meet these challenges and create something new from the ashes. Who will be by your side when the fires start? <\/span><\/p>\n

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Kathleen May (Photo: Kai Rannik)<\/p><\/div>\n

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