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A COLLECTIVE GUIDE TO SURVIVING CLIMATE COLLAPSE

Let’s be honest with each other.

Jun 7, 2025 • Margi Prideaux, PhD

CLIMATE BURNS LOUDER THAN AI

While we fear imagined futures, the real catastrophe is already unfolding—season by scorching season, drop by drop. Climate burns louder than AI.

Jan 7 • Margi Prideaux, PhD

ON THE EDGE OF A DIVIDE

In a reckoning with conspiracy, influence, and the quiet spread of climate denial, the choice is compassion, patience, and human connection.

Dec 28, 2025 • Margi Prideaux, PhD

FOOD SOVEREIGNTY OR BUST: Survival or Servitude

Food sovereignty is digging in, taking back the soil, and feeding your own—food security is begging at their machines.

Nov 3, 2025 • Margi Prideaux, PhD

NO PERFECT VILLAGE

The perfect community doesn’t exist—only the one we claw together, amid broken crops, frayed trust, and invisible grief.

Oct 8, 2025 • Margi Prideaux, PhD

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BRACE FOR IMPACT: Building A Real-World Guide to Surviving Climate Collapse

Apr 1, 2025 • Margi Prideaux, PhD

SCIENCE IS SCREAMING. No One is Listening.

Nov 11, 2024 • Margi Prideaux, PhD

A LESSON IN A LIE

Feb 24, 2025 • Margi Prideaux, PhD

WAKE WHILE YOU CAN

Jul 4, 2025 • Margi Prideaux, PhD

Resilient Roots Growers

FOOD SOVEREIGNTY OR BUST: Survival or Servitude

Food sovereignty is digging in, taking back the soil, and feeding your own—food security is begging at their machines.

Nov 3, 2025 • Margi Prideaux, PhD

THE QUIET ONES WHO TEACH US

In the wake of fire, a quiet grower plants eschallots and listens. On persistence, patience, and the kind of wisdom that grows underground.

Aug 8, 2025 • Margi Prideaux, PhD

PLANT, PERSIST, PREVAIL: Collective grower wisdom (#1)

Lately, I’ve been gathering intel from the underground. Not spies, but growers—gritty, collapse-aware cultivators who know what it means to feed people…

Jul 23, 2025 • Margi Prideaux, PhD, Adam Wilson, Rob Lewis, Wayne Jenkins, Jan Steinman, TheLastFarm, Suzan Erem, Alex Zeidner, Jackie Bridgen, Magda N-W, and Kollibri terre Sonnenblume

WHERE TO DIG: Forging a Collapse-Aware Grower Community in the City, Suburb, or Country

Survival doesn’t hinge on the perfect location—it hinges on guts, graft, and the people beside you. Whether you’re boxed in by concrete, fenced in by…

Jun 6, 2025 • Margi Prideaux, PhD

DOOMSCROLL. DELETE. DIG.

Fighting climate collapse isn’t about hashtags; it’s about getting your hands dirty.

Mar 7, 2025 • Margi Prideaux, PhD

Rough Harvest

With climate collapse pressing in, leaving was an option.

Dec 30, 2025 • Margi Prideaux, PhD

ROUGH HARVEST, September 17, 2025

A journal scrawled in soil, recording one life moving through climate chaos with hands in the earth and an urge to share and inspire self-sufficiency…

Sep 17, 2025 • Margi Prideaux, PhD

ROUGH HARVEST: Welcome

Launching Rough Harvest: my paid subscriber newsletter.

Sep 1, 2025 • Margi Prideaux, PhD

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