Ask HN: How are you planning to adapt to climate change?
Not how you're trying to prevent it, but what you're doing, or will do, because it's happening (faster than expected).
The worst will be in a couple of decades when climate migration will become a thing, I suspect.
I recycle both paper and plastic, I keep my products in energy-saving mode, I don’t litter, and try to keep my personal emissions down. But that might be more cultural than a genuine fear or worry of climate change.
Experts have mapped which places will be underwater, e.g. https://www.therakyatpost.com/living/2019/11/06/9-msian-citi...
This was semi-confirmed by recent floods. People would say "City X never flooded, it was a drainage issue." But the floods were drawn along these lines, and you can't drain the ocean in the long term.
The 2050 maps are decent to plan around. Even if we slow climate change and turn it around, it might be the state of things in 2075.
I can identify with this. In my country a good percentage of people deny it’s happening. And the industries that contribute heavily to the problem don’t show any signs of slowing let alone stopping. It feels inevitable and all I can do is use my autonomy to seek high ground with a robust water supply.
The exceptions are large catastrophic events like hurricanes, which will sporadically destroy whole communities.
Someone recently told me that I *should* be worried because climate change models predict things like temperatures of over 30°C in the summer and 120mph winds every winter, but since I was a child we've had summers just about that hot and 140mph winds every winter. A longer hotter growing season and a milder gale season does not sound like a downside.
There were plans we could make to prevent climate change, and I did as much as I could manage to participate in them. This obviously made no difference, and there is nothing much more I can do, now that we're in for it.
I will adapt to whatever climate-driven chaos comes my way when it arrives; there's no meaningful way to predict what it might be, so I'm not bothering to try.
Still I can never put the tons of carbon and poison caused by my existence back where it was.
<= Rosa Manriquez