Good and thoughtful post, as usual, Heart.   I just don’t think the analysis matters any more, however, because global patriarchy’s house of cards cannot sustain itself.  Why try to fix what’s irretrievably wrong and morally bankrupt?

Seriously, see the movie, Blindness, for the visuals on what a city in  “western civilization” will look like when collapse comes for whatever reason — be it financial markets crashing, or one too many climate-related disasters related to manunkind’s assaults against nature, or environmental degradation via nuclear/bio-chem/tech-crazy warfare plus profiteering. 

Blindness is also an amazing feminist movie (perhaps without intending to be), for Julianne Moore’s role if nothing else.

Maybe womankind will recapture our plant-finding, natural earth nexus, collective-consciousness abilities for sustenance without accumulation.  If we can find space in the paradise paved to put up parking lots. 

For my sisters out there, if you don’t have your own garden plot, why not dig and plant a little wherever the landlord does not mow? And learn and look around for indigenous edible plants.  Immigrants without much money in places like Los Angeles glean from everything edible, things I’d never have imagined had I not seen the gleaning with my own eyes. 

A new generation of Jannie Appleseeds.  “Oh, Great Mother’s good to me, and so I thank Her now …  for giving me the lovely seed and the things I need.”  (It’s a paraphrase of the Girl Scouts’ Johnny Appleseed song.  Of course, a man in the title, even for the Girl Scouts, because patriarchy always reverses the truth to idolize men … but before I start ranting like Mary Daly … not that anybody rants quite like Mary Daly …)