Raising Hell in the Paradise Built in Hell
As the saying goes, never let a disaster go to waste.
Seems some people are reading A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit's book about the spontaneous mutual aid efforts that spring up about disasters [my notes at https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2016/07/notes-on-rebecca-solnits-paradise-built.html] and deciding to raise Hell in any possible Paradise for their own political purposes. These are the people who are spreading disinformation and misinformation in the wake of the recent back-to-back Hurricanes Helene and Milton and even threatening FEMA workers.
There's a term for this, resilience targeting, interfering with "the ability to recover, whether physically, emotionally, socially, or geographically, from a disaster." Much more at https://www.truthorfiction.com/how-to-fight-disinformation-part-v-resilience-targeting/
This reactionary anti-climate/environment/ecology pushback is likely to get worse as climate groups begin to do what they should have been doing for years, preparing practically for the next weather emergency in ways that speed the necessary transition, whether the emergency arrives or not, building the disaster relief infrastructure and practicing for the seven lean years or how to live within our own ecological limits.
The Climate Mobilization Project (https://theclimatemobilization.org) is one climate group now organizing around community preparedness:
"We are launching a movement to survive climate impacts, heal together, and rise up against fossil fuels."
Here's one of their projects in Kentucky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOieLeLY0RY
I like Solar IS Civil Defense myself (https://solarray.blogspot.com/2024/03/one-easy-shift-to-solar.html) and The Footprint Project (https://www.footprintproject.org) has "deployed dozens of larger solar microgrids, solar generators and machines that can pull water from the air to 33 sites so far, along with dozens of smaller portable batteries."
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief (https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org)
Progressive People's Action (https://www.facebook.com/PPAofPinellas/)
Tampa Muslim Disaster Response (https://www.facebook.com/groups/tampamuslimdisasterresponse/posts/532858529339340/)
Florida For Change (https://flforchange.com),
and New Era Young Lords Florida (https://www.facebook.com/groups/279049263144607/)
are all doing hurricane relief and emergency preparedness work now.
Mystic River Watershed Association (https://mysticriver.org) has a robust "climate resilience" program (https://mysticriver.org/climate-resilience) and I expect other such watershed and conservation groups do too.
Emergency electricity is technologically, economically, and practically trivial. You don't need to know how to build lightbulbs, batteris, PV cells... from scratch. They are all readily available for affordable prices as mass commodity products. If you get them now before the fertilizer really hits the ventilation system (which is as good a descriptpion of the greenhouse effect as any other, at least for me). If you also use them in your daily life, that will another infinitesimal drop out of the machinery of destruction and provide some personal security for yourself.
https://www.climatecrew.org
Lots of possibilities. In fact, we are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities. Who wants to go opportunity climbing?
"We remain alert so as not to get run down, but it turns out you only have to hop a few feet to one side and the whole huge machinery rolls by, not seeing you at all." Lew Welch