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Collapse Club @collapseclub.com · 2d

The Preparedness Support Group will meet Saturday, 1 November. Complete information is posted! Hope to see you.

❤️ David B.

Preparedness Support Group meeting - Saturday, 1 November 2025

We want to learn responder skills, so let's organize ourselves like responders (and see if it works!)

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Collapse Club @collapseclub.com · 10d

#FeedYourNeighbors

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10d

Hi just so I'm clear.

I wrote "donate to food banks" and do "food runs for mutual aid" because they are different things!

Food banks want your money! they can do more with your money than with stuff.

Mutual aid groups often want stuff! Mine has a food fridge!

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10d

Now is a really good time to donate to food banks, and do food runs for mutual aid groups. Also, do menstrual product runs.

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Collapse Club @collapseclub.com · 11d

“You [member states] know what to do and you just don’t do it. I hear a lot of crocodile tears in this room, and I see a lot of serious hand-wringing.”

We will all die of the growth mind virus.

Rise in persecution of climate defenders in Europe slammed by UN expert

Climate activists worldwide are facing increased persecution and criminalization by governments, with some of the most severe measures coming from Europe, according to a United Nations human rights ex...

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Collapse Club @collapseclub.com · 11d

So here is evidence for the basic liberal proposition that the government should provide for the welfare of the people. But when the system is built for profit and growth, evidence doesn't matter. The liberal vision is bankrupt because it has capitulated to the money-power.

Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says

Exclusive: Poverty rapporteur says governments must rethink welfare state as essential to fabric of society

www.theguardian.com

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Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 15d

“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious, is to be in a rage almost all the time. So that the first problem is how to control that rage so that it won’t destroy you.” — James Baldwin

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Collapse Club @collapseclub.com · 17d

Thank you!!

Collapse Club @collapseclub.com · 17d

“Grassroots” = Mutual aid.

Spontaneous redistribution! People who can afford to make extra food share it with people who don’t have enough to eat.

www.ktvu.com/news/grassro...

Outdoor fridges are being stocked in underserved East Bay communities, as part of growing grassroots effort

A growing army of volunteers has been taking part in an organic, grassroots effort to help feed the hungry by stocking refrigerators placed at various locations in the East Bay.

www.ktvu.com

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Collapse Club @collapseclub.com · Sep 6

New podcast episode!

To live in the world but to see beyond the world creates pressure in the mind. In some circles, it's called "cognitive dissonance." In our circle, we call it "collapse awareness." When the pressure is too great, we must leave the fake world to find a reality that we recognize.

'The Fivefold Path of Collapse Acceptance' - with Susan, Matthew, and David

YouTube video by Collapse Club

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Collapse Club @collapseclub.com · Aug 27

Collapse causes acute distress which, if not metabolized, can cause us to freeze up or spiral into despair. If, on the other hand, we process our distress in connection with other people, we can take "wise action" which brings "enlivenment."

youtu.be/WoJTMQ6qVQ4?...

'Distress & Enlivenment' - with Matthew and David

YouTube video by Collapse Club

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Collapse Club @collapseclub.com · Aug 20

New Collapse Club podcast episode (with fixed video link):

'Awareness vs. Acceptance' - with David and Matthew

How can we become "settled" with the idea that the world is ending?

Audio: www.buzzsprout.com/2344414/epis...

Video: youtu.be/E3YYi92u5n4?...

Awareness vs. Acceptance' *FIXED* - with David and Matthew

YouTube video by Collapse Club

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Collapse Club @collapseclub.com · Aug 12

Collapse Club Podcast: ‘You are not alone’, with David and Matthew.

People who are collapse-aware live "dual lives." It's very lonely when no one — not even your closest friends and family — can talk with you about collapse and the feelings it brings up.

www.buzzsprout.com/2344414/epis...

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Collapse Club @collapseclub.com · Aug 11

Check out the latest post on our website: www.collapseclub.com/riding-the-r...

Riding the Roller Coaster

Collapse awareness is a roller coaster of emotions and mood states - but at the same time, we still have to function and keep going - right? After all, who has the luxury to stand still or fall apart?...

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Collapse Club @collapseclub.com · Jul 10

The illusion of business-as-usual is crumbling. The reality of collapse is hitting home in a new way. Even in places which have until now been protected by wealth, floods, heatwaves, and political disaster are overwhelming the human capacity to respond.

We can face reality with courage and love.

‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics

"We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've go...

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Feral Mystic @feralmystic.io · Jun 11

The Fivefold Path of Collapse Acceptance:

1. Knowledge - Find out, freak out.
2. Feelings - Grieve and metabolize.
3. Change - Accept the loss of “normal.”
4. Discovery - Watch for new perspectives.
5. Love-in-Action - Choose what is yours to do.

We practice this twice a week at Collapse Club.

Collapse Club | How we live in the time of collapse.

In a Collapse Club meeting, you will join like-minded people in a safe, structured space to share your experience of collapse and to cultivate communal wisdom.

www.collapseclub.com

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Collapse Club @collapseclub.com · May 27

New episode! David B. talks with Terry LePage, facilitator at Deep Adaptation and author of 'Eye of the Storm: Facing climate and social chaos with calm and courage.' Terry shares her reaction to the election of "47," and recounts her search for tranquility, community, and connection to the Earth.

Terry LePage - Being Calm and Courageous in a Time of Chaos

YouTube video by Collapse Club

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Collapse Club @collapseclub.com · May 24

Awareness of collapse is rising while the viability of “business-as-usual” is falling. At some point, those lines cross and we have a full-blown societal crisis, complete with people freaking out at national scale.

Get in touch with people who share your understanding. There is comfort there!

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Just Collapse @justcollapse.bsky.social · May 24

Collapse is defining the zeitgeist, seeping into every nook & cranny -demonstrated by more reporting on collapse. Our theory of change is to ride this zeitgeist, achieving as much socio-ecological justice as possible, easing the descent. This strategy works because it’s based on reality not fantasy.

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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · May 24

Like many of us here, I sometimes feel like I’m living two parallel lives - one in the system of modernity, and one trying to respond to its collapse.

A personal thread about living in the space between them as collapse accelerates around us. 1/8 #overshoot #collapse

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Collapse Club @collapseclub.com · May 22

We call it “business-as-usual,” and it can’t go on much longer.

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Collapse Club @collapseclub.com · May 22

We talk about this in almost every Collapse Club meeting.

Liz McFie @lizmcfie.bsky.social · May 22

“What you are feeling is the disconnect between seeing that systems are failing, that things aren’t working … and yet the institutions and the people in power just are, like, ignoring it and pretending everything is going to go on the way that it has.”
www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

Systems are crumbling - but daily life continues. The dissonance is real

If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help

www.theguardian.com

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Feral Mystic @feralmystic.io · May 20

I do a podcast for 'Collapse Club', talking to people who are making an energetic and thoughtful response to collapse.

Here, I talk with Matthew Painton, a therapist and coach who helps people "metabolize the dark feelings" of being collapse-aware, to turn "distress" into "enlivenment."

Matthew Painton - Finding What's Worthwhile, No Matter What

YouTube video by Collapse Club

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Collapse Club @collapseclub.com · May 9

Here's the latest article from our website. Hope you enjoy it! www.collapseclub.com/what-is-coll...

What is Collapse Club?

At Collapse Club we gather so that we are not alone. We gather to metabolize our grief. We gather to understand what it can mean to have hope at the end of the world. We have discovered something marv...

www.collapseclub.com

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Collapse Club @collapseclub.com · May 1

Here's the latest article on our How We Live page: www.collapseclub.com/cognitive-di... #collapeclub #cognitivedissonance

Child standing on a beach looking out at water with trash all over the beach behind her.

Collapse Club @collapseclub.com · Apr 23

Check out the latest article on our website: Acceptance, Courage, Wisdom - www.collapseclub.com/acceptance-c...

“Original Poetry” - watercolor and ink painting by Susan Porter

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Feral Mystic @feralmystic.io · Apr 17

Collapse Club made it into ‘The Guardian’ in the final paragraphs of this entry, 17 April 2025. We are appropriately intermingled with Deep Adaptation, whence we spring.

Thanks to @aarongell.bsky.social !

‘All of his guns will do nothing for him’: lefty preppers are taking a different approach to doomsday

Liberals in the US make up about 15% of the prepping scene and their numbers are growing. Their fears differ from their better-known rightwing counterparts – as do their methods

www.theguardian.com

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