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Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?
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#22I'm going to try and continue paying for groceries. If that goes well, I'm already in a basement with an air conditioner, so should be good forever according to the boomers who own all the land.
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#23Moving out of the American West. Moving somewhere where rain falls and food grows.
In Oregon it rained for seven months straight this year. My tomatoes are very sad
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#24I’m trying to get as rich as possible and learn as much as possible to be able to setup a self-sustaining village
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#25Adaptation
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#26Getting a wood stove. The incoming mini Ice Age is going to be nasty, especially in the northern hemisphere.
Curious as to the predictions of a coming mini ice age you’re referring to. Do you have something I can read?
They may have been making a coy reference to nuclear winter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter)
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#27Counter question: What's the point of surviving in a world where most of humanity will suffer terrible deaths? Aren't we better off focusing our energy on trying to effect change, helping the commons, instead of purely focusing on the self?
Because mass action has proven impossible due to moneyed interests and politics. So while you could and should what you’ve said I think the goal of the question is to understand how others are hedging their bets
You can do multi-goal optimization: try to become rich and powerful: it will increase your chances of personal survival but also you can direct your power on helping humanity.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Curious as to the predictions of a coming mini ice age you’re referring to. Do you have something I can read?
They may have been making a coy reference to nuclear winter ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter )
Their post history suggests they've got heterodox views about global warming.
Re: Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?
#29My tongue-in-cheek answer to this question would be 'my genetic heritage' since that has 'survived' - nay, thrived - through far larger threats than that posed by the current iteration of the changing climate. Glaciation, really lethal pandemics, murderous hordes from the east, volcanic winters, you name it - Homo Sapiens came, saw, and conquered. We're a really adaptable species with a knack for solving problems.
A more down-to-earth answer is that I do not need a 'climate change survival strategy' just like I do not need an 'ice age survival strategy' or an 'asteroid strike survival strategy'. Yes, the climate changes just like it always has. It was warmer in the 1930's - the Dust Bowl years - than it is now, it was colder during the little ice age, it was drier. it was wetter, it was whatever you care to name and will be in the future. Add to that that I live on a 17th century farm which is heated by wood only - which I also use for cooking - and has access to a well which has never run dry in known history, with a 15 kW solar array on one of the barns and enough acreage to satisfy our needs we're well prepared for whatever comes our way.
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#30Counter question: What's the point of surviving in a world where most of humanity will suffer terrible deaths? Aren't we better off focusing our energy on trying to effect change, helping the commons, instead of purely focusing on the self?
Because mass action has proven impossible due to moneyed interests and politics. So while you could and should what you’ve said I think the goal of the question is to understand how others are hedging their bets
Probably futile attacks on the moneyed interests is my "doing something".