- 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.”