Very worried about this
I’m mostly convinced that people are going to do absolutely nothing.
Can we pick up Ann Arbor and move it 1,000km north or so?
dude South TX is on fucking fire. Heat index of 120f… all time records and still I see people on linked in and wherever arguing about how it’s stupid to try and stop oil usage…
Maddening. It’s the people way up north that aren’t quite feeling it yet… GUESS WHAT WE ARE MOVING NORTH lol.
they are going to be real sad when we start migrating north and trying to pass laws to stop us lol.
Yeah, there’s about to be a lot of people heading north. Free movement between states is going to be fought over in the supreme court, because northern states will try to prevent being overrun. Michigan might try to build a wall across its southern border.
I don’t have much hope in the future.
yeah same… Water being one of the most important things states will try to protect. I actually sat in on a Texas water board meeting about our aquifers. Their own models didn’t even take into account climate change, but did have a worst case scenario situation where we lost about 10% of the aquifers every decade if droughts persist. So 100 years on their own government sanctioned modeling water board and still we do nothing.
OFC they were assuming business as usual in which case we are fine so by denying climate change and doing nothing they’ve literally doomed the state.
I don’t know what’s going to happen once it starts getting even worse. Either we just accept it or do something but by then it’s too late to prevent more serious consequences.
With corporations essentially having control over everything, there’s not much we can do short of full on strikes and revolution. Saving the environment is just incapatable with capitalism and corporate greed
We’re told over and over to stay positive and keep fighting, but honestly? Why? It doesn’t seem like enough is being done, and there are so many selfish people who simply do not care because they’ll be dead before it gets real bad. I’ve just sorta accepted humanity is fucked and that there’s very little I can do about it, even if I do my best to not litter, waste power, overconsume, and so on.
My take is it needs to get worse before enough people care. That’s unfortunate, but it’s important to keep in mind that people will eventually care enough to change their ways. And it will probably be easier for you if you change now, instead of waiting until everyone suddenly wants to buy solar panels / batteries / insulation / etc.
Those are all already supply constrained (at least where I live) and it’s going to get worse.
I’m so ready for the next “once in a generation” natural catastrophe.
At this point minimizing climate impact and preparing for resiliency is key.
Communities in the hottest and most humid areas are going to need air conditioned emergency shelters, and more likely people are just going to flee from them in large scale migration and everywhere else should have the social and material resources set up to absorb that.
As someone who lives in a hot/humid city, I don’t think it will be that bad.
First of all, air conditioning is multiple orders of magnitude easier/cheaper than heating in a cold climate. Everything is air conditioned, not just “shelters”. In a well insulated home you can just run it 24/7/365 with modest electricity consumption. The cost approaches zero if you only run it during the day (hopefully powered by solar) and rely on the insulation and lack of sunlight to keep temperatures reasonable overnight.
Second, your body gets used to it. Yes, heat can kill (it has killed a relative of mine) but it tends to kill people who aren’t acclimatised in buildings that are designed for cold climates.
It’s the cold climate cities, with periodic heatwaves, where people are at risk.
I don’t think you understand what happens when your power goes out though. Yes your ac works great, when you have ac. The problem occurs, when you don’t have power. And there’s nowhere to go. When it’s 110+ degrees, with 70%+ humidity, people start to die. Rapidly. It doesn’t matter how ‘acclimated’ you are, the human body just can’t take it.
