The problem being, there and here, that no such party appears to be on the horizon; which, given that dealing with things as they are means, effectively, ditching late-stage capitalism and the internal combustion engine, is not all that surprising, at least until people start treating this as the moral equivalent of being on a war footing.

Good point about the shaving soap. I use a couple of kinds, and one bowl lasts several months but it's the sort of thing I should think of (I do have one cake if shaving soap in reserve).