I’m not sure that collapse can be coped with, but if it can, it’s at a local level cooperating and sharing with people nearby, because few have all the skills necessary to survival on their own year after year. Given the popularity of “re-education”, concentration camps, involuntary conscription into armies, enslavement, and so on in history across cultures and civilizations, your number one survival skill is to have useful skills and keep your mouth shut lest you offend anyone…
What to do – not in any particular order
Richard Heinberg.
- The Oil Depletion Protocol : A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism And Economic Collapse
- Powerdown : Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World
- The Party’s Over: Oil, war, and the Fate of Industrial Societies
James H Kunstler. The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
Gene Gerue. How to find your ideal country home. A comprehensive guide.
Howard T. Odum. The Prosperous Way Down: Principles and Policies
Ted Trainer. The Alternative, Sustainable Society; the Simpler Way
Fellneth. 1973. Politics of Land in California. (If we’re on the way to 90% farmers again, land reform will be essential since currently most farms are huge and owned by wealthy individuals and corporations and if it remains that way, ecologically unsound mono-crops and slave-to-poorly paid farm labor will be the future direction)
John Barry. The Great Influenza. The epic story of the deadliest plague in History. (as the energy crisis/collapse grow worse, malnutrition will make many more vulnerable to disease and less medical care will make the spread and deadliness more likely, so inform yourself on what happens. Plus this is one of the best books I’ve ever read, fascinating, and you’ll learn very surprising aspects of this time period you’ve probably never read anywhere else)