Topic: Decentralized Food

Brand posits that the world will face "successive crises"—medical, climate, and economic—until the unelected global bureaucracies that benefit from them are dismantled. He argues that modern democracy has been replaced by "global imperialism" that seeks to enslave people through dependency. The solution, according to Brand, is a "breakout" toward decentralization and local control of resources and families.

In anticipation of a dollar collapse, Mike Adams recommends that states like Texas implement their own gold-backed currencies and decentralized food production. He notes that the University of Texas has already purchased billions of dollars in gold as a hedge against economic instability. Self-reliance and local community organization are presented as the only ways to survive the transition to a global cashless society.