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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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Post by WheelsAtLarge »

The real strategy is to change political will. Right now our politicians are mostly leaning towards as little change as possible towards a climate change solution. That needs to change. WE need to get involved and change people's and politician's minds.

Acting alone will do nothing. I can move to one of the poles and try to survive there but ultimately the world wide societal chaos that will be part of the changing environment will catch up to me. We are going to see fights for land ,water and general resources. I don't think people understand that it's not just a change in the weather but it's also a change on the way our world wide society functions.

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

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Post by bkuehl »

bkuehl wrote: post #42

Honestly, just staying in the Upper Midwest Great Lakes region of the U.S. is looking like a great option for me. Winters aren't great right now, but will only get milder and summers are amazing.

Also, apparently this area is going to be prime wine producing country in like 5-10 years. It already produces decent white wines.

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

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Post by kokanator »

Follow John Kerry's and Bill Gate's lead and make some money...

Invest heavily in alternative energy as governments will more and more use their regulatory power to enforce non carbon energy.

Invest heavily in environmental clean up companies as the environmental fallout for alternative energies is going to be extraordinary.[0][1]

Do my part to reduce my footprint along the way.

[0] https://www.science.org/content/article/millions-electric-ca...

[1] https://www.hazardouswasteexperts.com/solar-panels-wear-out-....

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

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Post by refurb »

dbingham wrote: post #31

This is the thing about climate change. There are no survival strategies - you can't plan for it. The biggest problem that will come with it is unpredicability. We know the broad strokes of how climate change will impact us, but exactly how it's going to break down is impossible to predict. We know it's going to make certain areas of the planet unlivable. We can't be sure exactly which areas. Sea levels are already r…

For all the unpredictability you seem pretty certain of the future.

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

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Post by refurb »

groby_b wrote: post #4

Counter 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?

Most of humanity will suffer terrible deaths?

No.

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

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Post by djohnston »

harambae wrote: post #38
djohnston wrote: post #13

Purchased roughly 200 acres in a remote part of the northern border. Setting up solar and wind arrays, purchasing weapons, considering experimenting with developing automated sentries.

>considering experimenting with developing automated sentries You'll likely be even harder hit by climate change in prison

Monitoring and alerting not engaging jeeze

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

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Post by dbingham »

refurb wrote: post #45
dbingham wrote: post #31

This is the thing about climate change. There are no survival strategies - you can't plan for it. The biggest problem that will come with it is unpredicability. We know the broad strokes of how climate change will impact us, but exactly how it's going to break down is impossible to predict. We know it's going to make certain areas of the planet unlivable. We can't be sure exactly which areas. Sea levels are already r…

For all the unpredictability you seem pretty certain of the future.

That's because the unpredictability lies in the details, not the broad strokes. The broad strokes we're pretty damned sure of, and many of them are already happening more or less as predicted - just not on the timelines predicted. They're happening sooner.

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

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Post by antisthenes »

Ken_At_EM wrote: post #21
galuggus wrote: post #12

I planted 10k trees with thissongplantstrees.com

I love the idea of tree-planting drones planting millions of acres of new forests.

Drones can't plant trees, unless they know how to handle a shovel.

You can technically drop a bunch of seeds on the ground if you don't care about survival rate, but I wouldn't call that planting.

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