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"What can a person do to prepare for climate change?" If global climate goes haywire, I would guess grain prices are first to go up, leading to instability in
by fsloth 9y ago
"What can a person do to prepare for climate change?"
If global climate goes haywire, I would guess grain prices are first to go up, leading to instability in the poorest areas (qualitatively, the price of food seems to be related to regional instability).
On the short term I would guess the best guess is to have enough money to buy food, and live somewhere where there are strong governments that will mitigate problems to their constituencies on the short term (USA, Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, etc)
If this starts to go badly, that is.
- ensiferum 9y agoYou mean when
- fsloth 9y agoNo, it's still if. Climate scientists are not seers. It's an if with bloody lot of concerning data points and estimates. If should be good enough to take action. Currently we are running a global empirical experiment on what happens when we increase CO2 in the atmoshpere, and no one has any conclusive answer what will actually happen, given that Earht's weather is a highly complex dynamical system. Will the clathrate gun explode? What happens then? Who knows! Roll the dice, enjoy the show. Yeah, when we get to when it's too late.