What is a Homestead Commons? Why does it matter?

Chong Kee Tan
9 min readOct 4, 2021
Fava beans drying on a tray. Author’s own photo.

The great collapse is almost a certainty by now

Unless you have been in deep denial about the state of the world, you would have realized by now that a catastrophic collapse threatening “life as we know it” is imminent. Problems like climate change, mass extinction, resource depletion, extreme wealth inequality, unraveling of social fabric and rise of fascism, rising geopolitical tensions, public health crisis, are just a few of the most obvious ones. To make matters worse, almost all the “solutions” that are thrown about steadfastly refuse to grapple with how seriously humans have exceeded the carrying capacity of mother Earth, but instead, flirt with magic bullets that will somehow enable greed to continue forever as humanity’s default moral value.

We may be just a few decades away, or even just a few years away, from a collapse that will kill half or more of all humans alive today. The elites know this and think hoarding and slavery will enable them to keep living it up at everyone else’s expense. This reveals just how short-sighted and bankrupt their thinking is.

Some possible response options

This is an article for people who have already gone through the first four stages of Denial, Anger, Bargaining, and Depression. That means…

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