Cy on Nostr: There is a kernel of goodness in the idea though. The reasin "off grid" living seems ...

There is a kernel of goodness in the idea though. The reasin "off grid" living seems so appealing is it means reducing our dependency on the global economy. There are other ways of living that depend less on globalist resource extraction, while still embracing the technology that lets us produce things for ourselves locally. You can sew your own shirts, and purchase machined fabric. You can form buyer's clubs, pooling your resources to buy in bulk and save. You can learn about canning, pickling, fermentation, all sorts of preservation methods that can be done locally, even if the cans, pickles, and preserved foods stop coming in on the trucking fleets, and the global shipping routes. Things can be reused, repaired, and people near you can help you do it. You won't save the world, but you'll be able to weather global stresses to your local community better.

"Off grid" living is about building community resilience, and it fails to do so, since as you say everything has to be shipped in. But it's a noble ambition, for ways that do work.