Yesterday a friend sent me a link to your Crash Course series, followed by these words:
“This is brilliant!”
So of course I couldn’t resist, and clicked the link. Three hours and twenty-three minutes later I sent her the following reply:
“Brilliant? That’s an understatement!”
Coincidentally, while watching it, I wondered if you were familiar with Jack Spirko’s Survival Podcast. I was about to send you a link to his website (in case you weren’t) when I saw the notice on your sidebar that you’d been his guest the day before!. Well, I’ve just finished listening to that episode and, if anything, it exceeded my expectations. Between the two of you, I can’t help but think that awareness of critical sustainability issues has clearly reached ‘hockey stick’ status. It’s obvious that you both ‘get it,’ and together did a beautiful job of making IT clearly understandable to anyone listening to the discussion. In fact I very strongly suggest that the two of you consider putting together a joint presentation outlining the practical steps both individuals and communities can take to achieve the kind of “parallel track” you’ve described (i.e., we should plan for the best…but do it in a way that also anticipates the worst).
I can see a video, imaginatively done by the two of you, going ‘viral.’ Especially considering how the media would tend to characterize such a presentation; e.g., “Baseball-cap wearing, gun-toting “red neck” from Texas joins with a suited, MBA-PhD scientist-businessman from New England to project an eye-opening vision of the road ahead.” The kind of presentation, in other words, that would stimulate main-stream media coverage, and thus generate a broad national audience.
So maybe consider talking to Jack about the possibility of making a short sequence of creative, visually rich videos that define the problems, but put the primary emphasis on what people can do to achieve practical step-by-step solutions. Do that, and you’ll likely find yourselves–and the importance of your understanding–the ‘talk of the nation.’
And rightfully so!
As you’ve said, we’re all in this together. The problem is…most people don’t quite know yet what “this” is. Your followers do, as do Jack’s. But put the two together…and I think you’ll see the short end of that hockey stick rapidly begin to grow…