🌍 Can prepping be about community, not fear? In this powerful episode of Tangelic Talks, co-hosts Victoria Cornelio and Jensen Cummings sit down with Eric Shonkwiler, novelist and creator of the preparedness newsletter When If, to explore a radically different vision of climate collapse, community resilience, and leftist prepping.
Forget the bunkers and bug-out bags—this conversation is about mutual aid, emotional honesty, and finding joy in collapse. Eric brings deep reflections from his upbringing, his fiction writing, and his anarchist lens to offer a new take on how we prepare—not just to survive, but to connect, care, and thrive.
Climate Collapse & Preparedness: Mutual Aid, Resilience & Community Joy
🎙️ Episode Highlights:
⚡ Why traditional prepping is dominated by right-wing narratives—and how to reclaim it
🏡 How mutual aid and community infrastructure are central to resilience
📚 Lessons from fiction, grief, and Octavia Butler on living with collapse
🧠 Why emotional resilience is as critical as physical preparedness
🥚 Chickens, strawberries & shared joy: The personal side of preparedness
🚨 When collapse isn’t the end—but a chance to build something better
🔹 About Our Guest: Eric Shonkwiler is the author of Above All Men and the creator of When If, a leftist, abolitionist, anti-capitalist preparedness newsletter featured in The Guardian, CNN, and Live Like the World is Dying. His work bridges fiction, mutual aid, climate collapse, and practical strategies for surviving—and building—together.
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