This has been a doozy of a year. And it’s the best year so far blah blah. So how are you all coping? Does it hit anyone else like a bolt of lightning that probably I - we - won’t die of old age?
This has been a doozy of a year. And it’s the best year so far blah blah. So how are you all coping? Does it hit anyone else like a bolt of lightning that probably I - we - won’t die of old age?
What would I be dying of if not for old age?
Heat index+power grid failure? Idk, we could make a magic 8 ball
I feel old just thinking of having grown up with magic 8 balls.
Heat stroke due to rising temperatures. That is, if you forget to stay inside with the ac when it’s 50 degrees celcius outside and go run a marathon instead (or you’re allready very old or ill and susceptible to heat stroke)
Or drowning, because you’re too stubborn to move away from the shore when sea levels rise enough to flood your house.
Or a falling tree on your head, because you don’t believe in wheather forcasts and climate changed has caused more frequent wheather extremes.
There’s plenty of unique challenges caused by climate change, but we can adapt to most if not all of them.
Or starving in the street as supply lines start to collapse because you aren’t wealthy enough to inoculate yourself from the consequences of ecosystems collapsing.
The heat is unbearable, but at the moment, it’s probably not going to kill me, it’s probably just going to be annoying. People in Arizona live like normal in temperatures 20% higher than body temperature, which nobody would guess is good for anyone. Meanwhile, I’m on the East Coast, where the sky is this week’s issue.
That sucks. Last spring, my basement flooded. It hasn’t flooded in 60 years, or at least, not as far as my dad remembers.
But it’s also a solvable problem with better drainage. Drainage is designed for once-in-10-year-storms, but those metrics have shifted now. Would have been nice if we could spend that money and effort on feeding starving children instead. But we chose not to adress climate change on time.
That’s a basement though, try a whole neighborhood of unprepared people. Supposing climate change is as pressing of an issue as people say, the fact it’s “politicized” enough that people are partial to some countries aggravating it over others, and that governments are too indifferent to the levels in which each other engages in it to not make threats over it, makes it no surprise it hasn’t been addressed properly.
Its not as bad as it was last year…