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The Predicament
- Retrofitting suburbia and adapting in situ are necessary. - It's recommended to start small and slow.
What Can I Do? - Share your excitement about your vegetable garden with colleagues and neighbors. - Get to know your neighbors. - Start building community in your local area.
The future is quickly approaching, and there are several interconnected issues threatening the stability and existence of global industrial civilization, including:
- Climate change - Overpopulation - Species loss - Resource depletion - Financial crisis - Social media - Acidification of the oceans - Topsoil erosion
Humanity faces multiple converging predicaments. The difference between a problem and a predicament is that problems have solutions, while predicaments have outcomes.
Sourced from Nicole Foss's teachings: FOSS Blog (2015) - “The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space.”
