General Discussion

We will see simultaneous massive migration and massive death.

NOTHING is more important, but we're bound up in the news cycle of the rodeo clown.

Our highly-dependent civ is not designed for resilience, it's designed for quick profit. Supply lines will break down, including food, medicine, and fuel.

Learn to garden. Potatoes have a high yield of calories per square meter. Collect rainwater. Solar panels. I planted black locust to burn for fuel. It grows fast, coppices well, and yields anthracite-like heat in a wood stove. I called it "planting my solar power".

If you're young, move to a higher altitude. Years ago I read that seas will rise by hundreds of feet if all the ice melts. It's happened before: the North Sea was land when the Ice Age was on. I haven't checked recent calculations. Remember: it's not how far you are from a coast, it's how high you are.

I reminded people of that before a storm surge and got them to move valuables higher. They thought because they were hundreds of yards from the water they were ok. They weren't. I'm glad I got that word out. The flood reached them, but they were prepared.

That was almost 20 years ago. It's worse now.

We've wasted decades of planning and organization. Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House - we should have begun then. The destructiveness is in the RATE of change; we lost our chance to slow the impacts down by moving to higher ground systematically and making other prep. This is why I went into massive shock for T2.0: that scuttled our last slim chance to prevent and cope. I had to hibernate until I could cope again.

Every minute we spend now preparing for a drastic rate of change will pay off tenfold or more. But if we wait until our feet are wet while our hair is burning...