How to Prepare for Climate Change
"A practical and comprehensive guide to surviving the greatest disaster of our time, from New York Times bestselling self-help author and beloved CBS Sunday Morning science and technology correspondent David Pogue"-- You might not realize it, but we're already living through the beginnings of climate chaos. Pogue offers sensible, researched advice for how we should start to ready ourselves for the years ahead. He walks readers through what to grow, what to eat, how to build, how to insure, where to invest, how to prepare your children and pets, and even where to consider relocating when the time comes. Included are tips for managing your anxiety, as well as action plans for riding out every climate catastrophe, from superstorms and wildfires to ticks and epidemics. -- adapted from Amazon info
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- The book How to Prepare for Climate Change by David Pogue is good, although very US-focused (if anyone knows a similar resource for the UK or Europe I'd love to know about it.)
The podcast Doomer Optimism has some gems too, although the episode quality varies wildly.
Tucker Max (who has been a guest on the DO podcast) wrote an article with his take on "doomer optimism". It doesn't mention climate change; it's more about the general topic of preparing for the comic chaotic times, and he veers a bit too far into COVID conspiracism which I'm sure will put a lot of people off, but much of the specific advice is hard to argue with (eg take 100% responsibility; reorient your life towards the local). https://www.tuckermax.com/doomer-optimism-what-i-see-coming-...
But I'd also love to read/hear more advice in this general topic. And I'd also like to meet people who are as interested in these topics as I am, so if anyone reading this lives in the London/Oxford M40 corridor, get in touch!
- There's a book "How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos" by David Pogue that I found had some decent information related to your questions.
- Tangential, but you might benefit from reading the book "How to Prepare for Climate Change" by David Pogue - it has (among much else) a lot of information about how different areas of the US are likely to be affected by climate change, which should inform any sensible person's decision about where to move to or away from. (Protip: don't buy coastal property in Florida.)
I liked the book but the only problem for me is that I don't live in the US, so if anyone can recommend a similarly detailed examination of climate issues for the UK, let me know!
- Futurists prefer "forecasting" rather than "prediction" since the future is constructed from the past (that is, data) and not from the examination of pigeon entrails, tea leaves, or flakey models with deus ex machina solutions.
David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming would be a good choice. It's a snapshot of forecast reality, not near-future sci fi, and scary.
https://smile.amazon.com/Uninhabitable-Earth-Life-After-Warm...
Also worthwhile, David Pogue's How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos. Similar to the Wallace-Wells book, but from a different perspective.
https://smile.amazon.com/How-Prepare-Climate-Change-Practica...
Cormack McCarthy's The Road is a disturbing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive when life on earth dies off from the bottom up. It is set a bit further in the future than the others, at a point where the die off of humans is happening. Collapse and death is mostly low tech.
https://smile.amazon.com/Road-Cormac-McCarthy/dp/0307387895/...
It does seem like we are living in a utopian sci fi novel these days (pandemic aside). We have ignored the warnings of pending collapse until there is no longer time to correct course or even adapt. So it's likely we wail be living in environmental chaos for the next 20 years and then slip into extinction over the next 10 as we experience first hand the last great die-off.
- david pogue in "how to prepare for climate change" mentions chicago and the great lakes area in general as a "climate haven", so the idea is not complete bs.
- David Pogue (formerly of the New York Times, and sometimes host of Nova) recently released a book literally titled “How to prepare for climate change”
[1] https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-to-Prepare-for-Cl...
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