What can you do at a grass-roots level to sustain human life on earth?

There is evidence to suggest that we are already too late to preserve modern civilization. Modern nations war with genocidal nuclear weapons over declining oil reserves, while global warming exceeds the methane hydrates tipping point. In these disheartening circumstances what you can do is consciously choose from among your four options:

1. Continue your lifestyle as usual and assume that the modern-culture leaders will take care of you somehow. Most people will choose this option, largely by default, because most of the 6.5 billion people on the planet have never heard of global warming.

2. Try to implement political and/or technical solutions so as to maintain modern-culture lifestyles. This is the choice of corporocratic elites who donít understand that Western consumerism is unsustainable in a closed ecology (a planet).

3. Prepare for the predictable lowland flooding, desertification, storms, droughts, diseases, and the disintegration of modern societies, while preserving the few parts of civilization that prove to be truly valuable. Those few who make this choice orient towards survivalism or monkhood.

4. Just Stop supporting the unsustainable old culture and, in the laboratory of your own personal life, invent sustainable new culture. A very few people will have the aptitude and tenacity to do this. These small groups will become the seed crystals for sustainable cultures of the future.

The view of this website is that modern Western consumer corporocracy has already failed us. Choices one or two equate to suicide. The purpose of this website is to support the individuals and small groups around the world who choose options three or four, nonviolent noncompliance with unsustainability. Stated in the barest minimum of terms this means: JUST STOP. BUILD AN ARK.

Individual experimenting is crucial. Each effort cuts totally new forms of consciousness that others can then more easily follow. This site is a nexus for new-culture experimenters.

The purpose of this website is to provide information that supports individuals and groups to take responsible actions in the clear eyed-vision of what is really going on and the clear hearted experience of what it is to live well.

Talk is cheap. Your choice will show up in what you actually do. After studying this website, itís your move.

We wish you all the best with your decision,

The Pullach, Germany Just Stop Team

ideas(AT)arkbuilder.org

PS There are many pages of essential information on this site. Our suggestion is to set aside a reasonable amount of time to learn what you need to know to make an intelligent choice about your future. Studying this material is greatly enhanced if you print out pages and read them over together in a weekly Just Stop Team meeting. (Free Download: Just Stop Team Handbook.)