Agree a hundred percent. Also I grew up in an area that still doesn’t have consistent cell reception so everyone always has a set of wrenches and the Haynes manual to their car.

Eventually I will get to there but I see it as part of the grieving process for my lost communities for now

Ooo I will definitely check it out. I love worlds that span multiple mediums.

Hm. Top scifi recommendations are going to be Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (you probably already read that one though) Hyperion by Dan Simmons The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is on my to read list. Parable of the Sower (its not really scifi but is good fiction that looks at our world post climate issues from the eyes of a 15 year old)

Not a book but an amazing three season sci fi series on Netflix is Dark (its German, the dub is not terrible)

Fantasy Recs: Any Ursla Le Guin Shadow and Bone (it has a netflix series too) Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrel (Regency novel but with magic) Anything by Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (retelling of Korean folk myth that is a little romancey and not super deep but I thoroughly enjoyed reading especially since I was not familiar with the myth)

Recommeded by r/collapse (I have yet to start any of these) When things fall apart : heart advice for difficult times by Pema Chodron Where the deer and the antelope play : the pastoral observations of one ignorant American who loves to walk outside by Nick Offerman Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond (volumes 1&2) Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke, as translated by S. Mitchell Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Hahn Prosper by Chris Martenson and Adam Taggart The Fifth Sacred Thing A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers Station 11 How to Prepare for Climate Change by David Pogue The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of Our World by Iain McGilchrist

Non-Fiction: Deep Ecology (I will have to check my bookshelf for the author) The Sand County Alamac by Aldo Leopold Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation (funny and educational about mating habits of other species framed as an advice column)

Anyway I will edit and add to this tonight or tomorrow to add things I am forgetting from my bookshelf (if I don’t remember to edit give me a poke, ADHD makes things hard)

Yea! What kinda genres are you interested in? Or what kind of genres do you avoid?

R/earthporn, r/lab rats, r/Superbowl, r/pitbulls

There is already an illegallysmolcats https://lemmy.world/c/illegallysmolcats Im sure the rest arent far behind.

I know there is a book community already. https://lemmy.world/c/books@lemmy.ml Im sure it wont be a curated as bettermentbookclub but its a start.

Aw man I haven’t even thought about that sub til now. It was my morning coffee scroll. It will take forever to build something like that here.

I had mixed results with the community. I got some great articles that I was able to share to raise awareness, some great book recommendations for everything from coping with stress to fiction to distract myself to useful sustainability topics.

But it also wreaked havoc on my mental health overall and I got downvoted for trying to find environmental communities that werent just big corporations in disguise or ineffective at their goals.

Overall definitely not going to miss it but a community that isn’t afraid to talk about collapse while still trying to find some solutions (even if just small individual solutions) would be welcome imo.