Our work as people who want and deserve better is to understand the game, stop playing in the ways that we can, get clearer about the kind of world in which we want to live, and be more involved politically and in our communities instead of less. – Toi Marie Smith
Through the lens of collapse awareness, interdependence is apparent and solidarity becomes essential to survival. We recognize that we are all beings suffering from a devastated biosphere, an insatiable extractive economy, and socio-geo-political decline. When we say all, we really mean all: all human beings, all more-than-human beings, all communities of all beings, and all future beings who will inherit the effluent of empire. Ultimately, nobody will be spared the sufferings of collapse, especially those humans and non-humans with less wealth, power, or protections. We share far more in common with present and future living beings than we do money, machinery, the economy, or the aspirations of empires.
Solidarity invites us to show up for other people fighting what turns out to be the same fight as ours – even if we are not positioned on the front lines. It offers us an opportunity to contribute what we can (in whatever forms or concentrations we can share) to a struggle for survival that may not be distinctly or acutely ours, but diffuses easily across the porous membranes between self and other.