John, like me, is confident that those famous projected curves published in ‘TLTG’ in 1972, and reviewed in ‘TLTG: The Thirty-Year Update’, remain the most accurately-playing-out guides to where we’re all going, as the ebb-tide of the Single Giant Pulse Event in the life of the Earth, of industrial ‘civilisation’, continues to gain speed.
The natural commodities on which industciv depends absolutely to exist at all - most especially the master resource of both economically- and energetically-cheap, easily-available, ABUNDANT energy - dwindle down remorselessly towards extinction. This will play out fully over two or three standard human lifetimes. But the time to start adapting is NOW! The first seriously-impoverishing bites into the livelihoods of we hoi polloi are getting bitten right now; and they will continue. The bloated bourgeoisie of the Pampered Twenty Percent in particular are now consigned to a savage shrinkage back into the lumpenproletariat/subsistence-peasantry. Deal with it, folks!
Just lately, I’ve been instructing my neighbours about the art of guerrilla-growing of potatoes on the little scraps of neglected ‘waste’ land that are plentiful where we live. Shades of the ‘Diggers’ at the time of the English civil war! I learned the basics of this art - NO-TILL, low-labour, harmoniously low-intrusive into the natural wild life of the ground - in the '70s, as a member of the Henry Doubleday Research Association (now ‘Garden Organic’: Our History | Garden Organic based near Coventry); with added input since then by studying the low-effort, cooperating-with-nature growing methods of Ruth Stout (qv) and Fukuoka-disciple Emilia Hazelip (qv), amongst others.
Another important grower to study - mainly through the series of YT vids that Pete Kanaris publishes to celebrate his work - is Jim Kovaleski. Jim’s method of garden-sharing guerrilla-growng is impressive, and speaks precisely to JMG’s repeated stress on the need for people to find under-the-radar ways of getting a modest-but-decent living, whilst de-coupling from the rackets of over-ground society - as it crumbles irreversibly into catastrophe: