I surprised a realtor by saying we wouldn't consider buying a house <6ft above sea level. He said, but you aren't planning for this to be your forever home. I said exactly, so I have to sell it, and sometime between now and then, all the potential buyers are gonna learn what I already know.
We also said if it WERE a forever house, the minimum altitude will be 300ft above sea level, because it's impolite to leave your heirs a patch of seawater.
I've been thinking 5C looks already baked in based on the inertia of capitalism and collective action and systems that are nearing limits on heat that they can absorb. Would be nice to do a documentary style film preparing people for the future. Like, here is how you make a spear to hunt.
because I have been optimistically thinking we'll have a future that looks a bit like Mad Max and Bartertown, but that doesn't come close to what the collapse will look like. More like a brutal feudalism married with Planet of the Apes.
Consensus to drastically cut CO2 emissions could have been reached much sooner if climate scientists had lobbied the Chinese and Indian governments to start doing geoengineering should 1.5 C temp. increase be approached.
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