Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire

How to reclaim power in a time of perpetual crisis



We are living through a Long Emergency: a near-continuous train of pandemics, heatwaves, droughts, resource wars, and other climate-driven disasters. In Lifehouse, Adam Greenfield asks what might happen if the tactics and networks of care that spring up in response to these times might be brought together in a single, coherent way of life?



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