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I panicked for a few months, as a naive college student in my early 20s, then I realized there was no stopping it and decided to position my family as best as p

I panicked for a few months, as a naive college student in my early 20s, then I realized there was no stopping it and decided to position my family as best as possible to live through it. But if you have nothing better to do than panic, then by all means do so. At some point I might be able to market you a product based on that panic, which will be a few more dollars toward building my family's ark.

astrange 2y ago
> then I realized there was no stopping it This is not what the IPCC reports say and so there is no reason to believe it. (For one thing there is no "it" to stop because it's a continuous value you can reduce, and for another we are reducing it. And no, we're not just exporting it to China.)
- toast0 2y ago
  As an individual, there's not much one can do to spur collective action on climate change. Taking action to mitigate the personal impact is reasonable though; things like picking housing that's unlikely to flood during extreme weather.
  - astrange 2y ago
    I think this is the opposite of correct. The most impact we can have is by improving transportation patterns, which come from improving local land use, which in the US are controlled by city council meetings that only retired busybodies show up to. So show up to them and join a YIMBY chapter, or become a traffic engineer or something. On the other hand, you have no actual personal impact on it unless you own a private plane, so there is nothing to mitigate. Recycling isn't going to help. Or you could try emitting silicon dioxide into the atmosphere and hope nobody stops you. We're probably just going to solve it that way anyway.
    - toast0 2y ago
      Not mitigating climate change personally. Mitigating the effects of climate change personally. So, choosing not to live in a house that's right on a low bank shore... Because it's likely to flood and disrupt your life. Be sure to have defensable space around your home, because wildfires are happening in more places. Consider access to drinking water and how to shelter your home from heat.
      - astrange 2y ago
        The thing about that is, you don't need to be aware of climate change to have to do it. You will simply be forced to do it because your insurance company is going to make you. But the only solution is move. There is no way you can make a high fire risk zone safe, and water/summer temperatures won't be an issue outside tropical regions (so the US will be okay) but if you are in one of those you can't fix it.

astrange 2y ago

> then I realized there was no stopping it This is not what the IPCC reports say and so there is no reason to believe it. (For one thing there is no "it" to stop because it's a continuous value you can reduce, and for another we are reducing it. And no, we're not just exporting it to China.)

toast0 2y ago
As an individual, there's not much one can do to spur collective action on climate change. Taking action to mitigate the personal impact is reasonable though; things like picking housing that's unlikely to flood during extreme weather.
- astrange 2y ago
  I think this is the opposite of correct. The most impact we can have is by improving transportation patterns, which come from improving local land use, which in the US are controlled by city council meetings that only retired busybodies show up to. So show up to them and join a YIMBY chapter, or become a traffic engineer or something. On the other hand, you have no actual personal impact on it unless you own a private plane, so there is nothing to mitigate. Recycling isn't going to help. Or you could try emitting silicon dioxide into the atmosphere and hope nobody stops you. We're probably just going to solve it that way anyway.
  - toast0 2y ago
    Not mitigating climate change personally. Mitigating the effects of climate change personally. So, choosing not to live in a house that's right on a low bank shore... Because it's likely to flood and disrupt your life. Be sure to have defensable space around your home, because wildfires are happening in more places. Consider access to drinking water and how to shelter your home from heat.
    - astrange 2y ago
      The thing about that is, you don't need to be aware of climate change to have to do it. You will simply be forced to do it because your insurance company is going to make you. But the only solution is move. There is no way you can make a high fire risk zone safe, and water/summer temperatures won't be an issue outside tropical regions (so the US will be okay) but if you are in one of those you can't fix it.