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Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?

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Re: Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?

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IDK if you'd call it a strategy, but I'm starting to chain some code together so I can apply technical indicators to various climate indices. It's a fun science project if nothing else. But pragmatically speaking it helps me to apply the technical indicators I'm familiar with to the data that's making the news, and form some of my own perceptions of what's going on. The most extreme direct risks to me from climate af…

Is one of the goals to apply climate indices to economic predictions? I've been thinking a lot recently about a chart I saw a long time ago, showing how "peak oil" (as it was called before fracking increased reserves) would result in a series of economic shocks where the global economy bounced up against an energy ceiling, sending energy prices higher until the economy entered recession, at which point energy demand/prices would fall enough to trigger another growth boom that would again be cut short by the oil ceiling. This presupposed that oil availability was falling every year after the peak. But it also supposed that energy was the only "ceiling" out there. Climate change, covid, the size of the generation entering old age, market bubbles, and trailing energy capacity have all served in some way to compress and limit growth in the last ten years. I'm curious what kind of proxies you're using to model the interactions.

Re: Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?

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Statistically, I'll only be around for about another 25 years, so things will be just starting to get really bad right around when I'm due to kick the bucket. I recycle, use electric vehicles, vote for liberal tree-huggers and donate money... Sorry it hasn't done much.

Good luck with the post-apocalyptic hellscape. I'm an atheist, so I won't be watching from above or anything. Though we might interact again in a few billion years when the sun consumes the Earth, converts its mass into energy and shoots our constituent particles out into the universe as beams of photons. Maybe we'll all become part of a Boltzmann brain, gain sentience again and hang out.

(Actually, to quote the amazing Douglas Adams, "There is another theory which states that this has already happened.")

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