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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?
#62The 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 e…
> 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. First, we need to address the economy and inflation. Then, work on technological solutions to CC. When economy is good, everything is great. Sustainable practices sound awesome. But, when populace is struggling,…
CC will hurt the economy whether you like it or not. The more we wait, the more pain there will be. The populace is struggling, but it’s nothing compared to what comes so why not start adjusting expectations now? There is still a lot resistance to positive lifestyle changes irrationally perceived negatively (smaller car, smaller house, used clothes, less meat, …).
Also to add insult to injury the economy is fine, profits are still high and follow years of records profits for shareholders, employment is low. The money is just not correctly redistributed.
Re: Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?
#63I’m waiting on China and India for direction. They don’t seem to be worried, and test scores indicate they are much smarter than Americans.
China, the country with the massive investments in renewables, the biggest EV market, and a concrete plan on reducing carbon emissions?
They're farther ahead than the worst polluter per capita, the US, which still doesn't have a plan and us highly unlikely to have one soon.
Re: Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?
#64It's pretty much the same like my zombie apocalypse survival strategy and my aliens landing on earth survival strategy.
Re: Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?
#65Here's a long analysis from someone in the climate space: https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/ruggedize-your-life
> It feels almost anachronistic to say it — in these days of globalization, international entertainment, worldwide travel, remote work, constant connection and instant access to everything — but the most important choice facing you and your family as the planetary crisis crashes down is where you choose to be. Where you live, and even more, where you have the right to live, will bound and determine your options when shit gets real.
> How do we get smarter about making that choice?
Re: Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?
#66A good AC/heating
Re: Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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. First, we need to address the economy and inflation. Then, work on technological solutions to CC. When economy is good, everything is great. Sustainable practices sound awesome. But, when populace is struggling,…
CC will hurt the economy whether you like it or not. The more we wait, the more pain there will be. The populace is struggling, but it’s nothing compared to what comes so why not start adjusting expectations now? There is still a lot resistance to positive lifestyle changes irrationally perceived negatively (smaller car, smaller house, used clothes, less meat, …). Also to add insult to injury the economy is fine, pro…
> but it’s nothing compared to what comes so why not start adjusting expectations now?
What comes next? Climate alarmicism is getting out of control. The deaths from climate catastrophies are like 15x lower than 100 years ago. Collapse of the society due to instability from climate policies (see Sri Lanka) will lead to more deaths and suffering than from sea level rising. Norway managed sea levels rising for last 50 years just fine (from other reasons): https://www.kartverket.no/en/at-sea/se-havniva/sea-level/obs...
Re: Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?
#68It's pretty much the same like my zombie apocalypse survival strategy and my aliens landing on earth survival strategy.
Tell us more, you seem to be well prepared for the most important things!
Re: Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?
#69Getting 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?
No single web page I can point you to I'm afraid. My climate folder got clobbered and I haven't had a chance to go and snag all the pages that were in it again. Plus they were mostly from alternative sources.
I understand (better than most!) that my position is contrary to the prevailing wisdom but then I'm the right age to be a curmudgeon about all this:
- the sun is what gives our planet warmth
- its long term cycle can be very accurately measured by sunspot activity
- we're currently entering a grand solar minimum
- this will trigger the mini ice age
- previous example: the Maunder Minimum which triggered the last mini ice age
The Maunder Minimum would be a good thing to search for.
Re: Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?
#70Been doing a slew of things over the past few decades, ATM one project is mass trialing of thousands of wheat, barley, canola, etc varieties to build data on those that thrive in hotter more humid conditions .. and building a library of high yield varieties against a broad range of conditions. This is going on throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia and using a lot of automated instrumentation for logg…
Very interesting. Is there a website to get more info on this? I recently got into at home plant phenotyping.