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Honestly? By not hitching my hopes to a collective American national consciousness having a change of heart; by instead having a pretty well-developed strategy for land acquisition for the purpose of building communes that do extensive permaculture and silviculture, maximal self-sufficiency through appropriate technology, and biochar sequestration. My networks have a good amount of land projects going already, and most of what we need is for a lot of people to make the lifestyle switch from "living as an individual socialist under capitalism" to "living as part of a collective project".

In the meantime I have a low-end "first-world" income level with a high-end "third-world" consumption level. In less than a year I will be set to really take off with urban commune and workers' cooperative projects. Maybe people see how much better of a living we're making for ourselves and desert the market to us en masse, or maybe they don't and make capitalist colossus teeter more. To hell or utopia; either answer satisfies us.

Yes I am basically wagering that something close to the pre-Cambrian level of CO~2~ is not enough to turn us into a runaway hothouse Earth that resembles Venus, and that a lot of salvaging can be done in a generation or two once Western civilization topples under its own destabilizing forces. These may not be true but believing against them doesn't help the cause.