Chapter 8 — From Bad to Worse

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 8:

Email:

Dear Benji,

Thanks for your email. My little commune? I like that name. I really loved meeting your friends, too. It was nice to have you all out here to welcome our hurricane refugees. They all seemed a little shell-shocked from their long drives, but your enthusiasm helped them feel right at home.

Today I went to the feed mill. I bought a literal ton of winter wheat seed. I figure we might want some wheat for bread next year. We only plan to plant about 400 pounds. The rest we will store and run through our mill to make flour as needed. I really like fresh ground flour for making bread and pancakes. After going to the feed mill, I stopped at the natural foods coop in town and picked up my order of a 55-gallon drum of organic sunflower seed oil. It seems like a lot, but the price was right, and we have plenty of potatoes in the ground. I’m looking forward to french fries all winter.

I listened to the English Broadcast Group after you left. The hurricane that is coming for D.C. is about to hit. The freeways are clogged with people finally fleeing the city. The…