I mean it is.

I'm not going to help me.

I mean it is interesting right that like we were living out in the woods for so many years and we were really accustomed to like being isolated.

Hello beloved survivors.

I'm Autumn Brown, and this is how to survive the end of the world. A podcast about learning from

apocalypse with grace, rigor, curiosity. The other voice you're hearing is

my eldest child Finn. However, so one time in science class for the warm-up we did, we actually did something called,

what ten things would you bring on to a deserted island?

As the series has unfolded, one of the emergent scenes is the necessity of adaptation

under apocalyptic conditions.

As our reality changes or as our reality is unveiled to us,

we must iterate on how we have practiced and what we have built so that we can build new practices

and the new worlds that are necessary for our survival.

As the pandemic unveils the reality of health care in this country and the violence of what healing justice activist Kara Page refers to as the disease economy,

we are confronted with the need to adapt how health care is delivered.

But even more than that, we are confronted with the need to rewrite the very assumptions

that underpinned this system, that the body is a commodity, that

health is a product, and that some lives are disposable, whereas others are worthy of extraordinary

measures to save.

The models of care delivery here in the U.S. can feel monolithically bad,

but part of my political work over the last 15 years has been in service of connecting and

uplifting the alternative economies of care and alternative practices that

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