Chapter 13 — Things Devolve in the City / Things Evolve in the Country

A serial novel in the form of correspondence among a family while the world as we know it collapses around us. I recommend you start at the Introduction:

https://medium.com/climate-for-change/climate-for-change-introduction-5331d5ab9313

But you can start anywhere you want.

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Chapter 13:

Website chatbox (All communications translated from Bulgarian):

Dear Grandpa,

Wow! I am excited to hear about the gift economy. Mom has the people on our block doing something similar. We have decided to pool our skills and assets. There are people who have a lot of extra clothing, and there are newcomers who arrived with nothing. Now everyone has enough warm clothes for the winter. There are people who are unable to shovel the snow on their sidewalks. We organized a crew to do the whole block when it snows. I am on the crew, and it is like a party. We always have a snowball fight, too! Mom let people on the block know about our big freezer full of meat. It didn’t seem right to hide it anymore. Now, once a week we have a big potluck, and everyone salivates over the meat dish that Mom cooks up. We also included the soldiers who are stationed at the park in our meetings and potlucks. We know all their names and they certainly don’t seem as scary as they once did.