I'm currently residing in Central Europe and 42C are scheduled on Saturday. I think it's a new record for the town. But other than about 2 weeks of heat wave per summer, the rest of the time the weather is quite livable. I'm renovating the basement a bit, where it's a lot cooler, so it's not all that bad.<p>The worst will be in a couple of decades when climate migration will become a thing, I suspect.
Actively participate in discussions with locally elected politicians could be a useful thing. Supporting those who help track the progress here can also be useful - do we have a website which e.g. lists American federal politicians stance and actions regarding climate? Do we have some news sources which track initiatives and their evolutions?
I genuinely do not think about it. I recognize this might make me seem ignorant. But I really don’t care and am not interested in the topic.<p>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.
I think of it like a volcano eruption. I'm not going to be able to stop it, and no amount of political campaigning will change anything. Just get out of the way.<p>Experts have mapped which places will be underwater, e.g. <a href="https://www.therakyatpost.com/living/2019/11/06/9-msian-cities-will-be-underwater-by-2050-due-to-rising-sea-levels/" rel="nofollow">https://www.therakyatpost.com/living/2019/11/06/9-msian-citi...</a><p>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.<p>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.
My guess is the change will be gradual enough (in human terms) that adaptation for many of us won't be terribly hard.<p>The exceptions are large catastrophic events like hurricanes, which will sporadically destroy whole communities.
I can't say I'm that worried about it. I live in a part of the world with good food security, good energy security, and a lot of high ground.<p>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.
I have no plans. What difference would it make if I did?<p>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.<p>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.
The area I'm in is relatively insulated from the effects of climate change, but I have been thinking about moving further north just to get real winter where the snow doesn't melt again. Either that or move to the southwest to get dry heat year round.
I installed some solar panels on my deck, changed to an EV, started paying attention to energy and water usage, started composting, going to try to grow some of my own food.<p>Still I can never put the tons of carbon and poison caused by my existence back where it was.
In authoritarian groups, little things are put in for people to start talking about in order to shield the big issues.... I’ve heard it said that if you want to make God laugh, tell God your plans....<p><= Rosa Manriquez