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We're not yet ready for what's already happened.
Award-winning writer and climate futurist.
Foresight and strategies for life in a planetary crisis.
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Emerging brittleness traps: "the most hazard-impacted counties might be losing aggregate household income due to migration... advantaged groups leave while disadvantaged groups are 'stuck in place'"
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Wow! Subscribed.
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BINGO
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People elsewhere are also charting the same course into disaster.
They just have more compasses, should they choose to consult them.
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Of course, just normal caloric erosion — being able to grow less and less food — is itself pretty terrifying.
www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/c...
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It's great. Planning to review soon.
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weird migration problem. deleted. thanks for letting me know
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More here
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Of course, just normal caloric erosion — being able to grow less and less food — is itself pretty terrifying.
www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/c...
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Yes.
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If we lived in a country that cared about its future, we'd be 10x-ing our climate preparations and disaster recovery budgets right now — and ramping them up another order of magnitude over the next decade.
Responding to the planetary crisis should be a core function of national governments now.
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Here's the first night of the (two-night) talk, where I rallied the citizenry of Seattle to build North America's first carbon neutral city by 2030—because "no other goal is good enough."
I was, unfortunately, right about that.
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Just as a for-instance, here's a big talk I gave way back in the day about cities and climate, density as decarbonization, green building, low-consumption lives, car-free communities and the need for a green YIMBY movement.
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It's also likely irreversible.
Definitely here in the US, but it looks likely to be true in most places. National governments will not rescue you from risk, much less save everything — and may not even help very much at all.
Massive consequences.
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A ton of this work will need to happen on private lands and around people's homes, and be done by owners.
I'm not optimistic about most owners' willingness to engage this work before disaster strikes.
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We must not just ruggedize against growing climate discontinuities, but simultaneously repair decades (or centuries) of ecological destruction... ecosystem restoration and revival, but for future conditions.
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Oh no!
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It's also likely irreversible.
Definitely here in the US, but it looks likely to be true in most places. National governments will not rescue you from risk, much less save everything — and may not even help very much at all.
Massive consequences.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/climate-ac...
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If you're an American, you and your family are less safe than you were just a few months ago.
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Thanks Dave, that's very kind.