Are you moving away from the equator? Or to a higher altitude? Maybe closer to water. Are you building a house a certain way, perhaps underground? Moving into a big city? Are you selling property in a certain region?
Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?
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Re: Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?
#2IDK 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 affecting weather seem to be related to wildfires, but the local response (fire, police, mental illness-related efforts, various non-profits) has really raised its game after recent fires, and now with PG&E making some changes things don't seem as bad.
Re: Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?
#3Grabbing extra ice for my cooler and spending a bit more time at the river / lake / beach.
Re: Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?
#4Counter 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?
Re: Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?
#5Simple: If it gets too hot I start opening refrigerator doors. If it gets too cold I turn on hairdryers. Energy's cheap where I live.
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#6Advocate for mutual aid and political action via calling local representatives. There's nowhere on the planet I can possibly move that won't also need a heavy military (that I will have pay for in order to remain in the good graces of the government running that shitshow) to gun down refugees who are unlucky enough to be poorer, browner, gayer, or otherwise less desirable than me.
Acknowledging this fact has placed a heavy importance on my part to support community projects locally.
Re: Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?
#7I am avoiding settling down in parts of the country that seem to be on a bad climate trajectory. We are still seeing a mass migration to the US sunbelt and that doesn't seem like a good idea long term.
Re: Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?
#8Getting a wood stove. The incoming mini Ice Age is going to be nasty, especially in the northern hemisphere.
Re: Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?
#9Counter 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?
You still have to make decisions about your own life. Are you going to settle down in region that is expected to dry up or be hit by mega-storms?
Re: Ask HN: What's your climate change survival strategy?
#10Counter 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