Perfect for fallout 2 season
So they moved to North Carolina lol. The text acknowledges this but I feel climate refuges are somewhat of a myth.
Also, there are many neighborhoods in LA that are much safer from wildfires. You have to evaluate your risk in a more granular way.
It might also be possible to construct our houses to make them much more fire resilient. I haven’t seen the details but I’ve heard that Australia made some big changes to their design standards in recent years but California has not.
The issue is that in times of climate instability arid areas swing wildly into heat, drought and cold (not to mention catastrophic flashfloods and fires) because there is no water in the regional climate system to moderate those swings.
Don’t take my word for it, look at vanished civilization after vanished civilization especially in central and north america…
This isn’t going to get better, this isn’t the time in human history to live in an arid area, it is dangerous as fuck. Leave if you can, you have no idea how bad it is going to get because frankly not even the scientists do.
I keep giving this warning to people in the US but unfortunately I think we are headed for a mass heat death event (5000-10000 dead) in Phoenix Arizona or a similar city from widespread power outages during a brutal sustained heatwave.
Leave the desert now, I implore you, this is the wrong moment in history to be a desert dweller and ESPECIALLY get any loved ones with precarious health or that are elderly out NOW.
I wish this was hyperbole but it really isn’t…
Going to read the rest of this thread, damned interesting. But I was just saying today:
https://old.lemmy.world/comment/14400873
Scary what I’ve seen in less than 8 years. Seen the ecology change on my front porch. But most aren’t paying attention to the little shit like I do.
I saw fire ants move in, then armodillos moved north to us, around five years ago I found my first gecko.
The woods smelled and sounded different by then as well. Insect patterns have drastically changed.
The woods just feel different now, in the South.
Anyone who doesn’t see it either doesn’t spend as much time in the woods as they claim or are willfully ignorant.
It’s scary.
We’ve already got climate refugees from countrys. Hell, a large part (probably not the only issue) of the Syrian civil war can be traced to water issues.
