Topic: Food Independence

"Green Wizardry" serves as a practical guide for home-scale energy conservation and backyard food production as common-sense responses to resource scarcity. Detaching from corporate structures and the "Empire" involves learning to provide goods and services within a local community. This shift from a growth-based mentality to a sustainability-based one is presented as the key to a life worth living during societal contraction.

Inspired by the "Going Galt" concept from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, Adam Kokesh describes his personal withdrawal from the mainstream economic system. He reveals he has been living in an RV trailer on 11 acres in Arizona for two years while building a house without initial permits. He is working toward food independence with livestock and greenhouses, choosing a modest lifestyle to avoid contributing to the "violence of the system" through taxes and rent.