Do you believe in “climate doom”?

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Almost every multi-millionaire has purchased a house on Martha's Vinyard. It's a status symbol. I am sure Obama will offload it before the sea water starts lapping his letterbox.

Knowing my villa will be underwater 5000 years from now would not discourage me from purchasing it.

Investment in development of energy-efficient technologies and water-efficient farming are what I believe should be done - and it is done in a lot of places worldwide.

I would waterproof my house and convert it to like an underwater viewing...would be so cool

I'll 'believe' it when this country's capital literally sinks in the next 10-100 years. Except, not really believe. I see it for what it is than believe whichever it meant.

Which is already physically at odds to begin with -- sinking by 4cm to 10cm per year, for the last 60 or so years now.


But then this country is already classified as one of the most vulnerable places.

I even personally seen the climate change effects with my relatively short years of life and that's just one area, and quite far from nature.


And yet, and yet, I'm far from panicking. Nor felt doomed because of climate my whole life.

Why??
The fluctuations and extreme changes are so normal, the norm is simply adapt and survive out of it no matter how under equipped.

Yes, that includes yearly shortages, loss of livelihood, destruction of infrastructures, deaths -- all of them brushed off as 'normal'.


If anything else...
I'm rather privileged to observe these things close up, and live in it.

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Yes, the future is bleak even if we stopped 100% of carbon emissions tomorrow the climate change that has already happened is permanent. Society will peak likely in the next 20 years(likely a lot sooner) and then it is only downhill from there on out. Even though I live in one of the most climate-resilient parts of the Earth with an unlimited supply of freshwater, no real risk of forest fires, no flooding, far above sea level, virtually no tornadoes, no hurricanes, the world is all interconnected. People fleeing climate change from all over the world will no doubt end up here and the housing supply which is already in severe shortage is as good now as it will ever be. The government that I rely on will be broke from dealing with all the impacts of climate change across the country.

We have no choice but to do this:

Yay! so much to look forward to after COVID

Personally, I'm reatively optimistic because I live in a very resilient and adaptive culture.
I sometimes think, Polish culture is better adapted to surviving catastrophes than to live in stable peace and prosperity

Probably, I don't believe humanity will do anything substantial until it's too late because that's just how we roll.

I have no idea who or what to believe when it comes to climate change anymore.

The issue is that with the likes of extinction rebellion, if you were to take 1000 members you will soon realise a serious mismatch with what they say and what they do.

Media studies, artists, journalists, carers, coffee shop workers, humanity students, waitresses, musicians and most living in a metropolitan area in a little bubble world ........these are the types of people who want to start the green revolution and lecture us on climate change but they're about as useful as a chocolate teapot at making a wind turbine and know sweet all about the climate.

I might actually listen to them if they decided to learn how to weld, fabricate, engineer, and lay some concrete foundations but I feel I will be waiting a long time.

They can sure talk the talk but they never walk the walk. They seem intent on letting others come up with the solutions and build their dream society for them. Hypocrisy if I've ever seen it.

I have less problems with who to trust, as I personally know a couple of atmosphere researchers, so my "scientists say" does not go through a layer of journalists who typically have no idea what they're talking about.

From atmosphere researchers, I know what's going on (and how much we really know and how much we really don't know) about the climate change itself - but not with all the political aspects of possible reactions to it.

My own bid is investment in energy-efficient technologies, water-efficient farming, resilience and adaptiveness.