In the age of climate change that is no longer so much a “crisis” as much as our profoundly precarious condition, perhaps the term “disaster”—with its implications of surprise and aberration—should be abandoned.
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Awareness of a chronic condition unfolding does seem to be breaking through a bit. For example, I’m seeing more stories about problems getting insurance.
Especially, considering, how millions of folks have already changed their entire way of living—including being forced to leave their homes—due to climate change, and not just in the remote parts of the world.
People have no idea how fucked they are or how hard recovery actually is. My county has had multiple major wildfires and literally all you can do is run like hell.
The forest urban interface East of the Mississippi is not exempt from fire. There's no safe place.
No one, at least in the US, that could be doing something will do anything. It’s not good for their bottom line, they’re old rich Fs, it doesn’t affect them, and their concern for their children/grandchildren is merely hypothetical. It’s already over.
Completely agree - there’s this sense that it’s something that “will happen” and when it becomes evident that there will be no clear demarcation between pre and post that “event”, it will be that much harder to convince anyone to do anything about climate change.
In other ecology 'breaking news', the oceans have been reduced to veritable deserts. Seas and bays that once fairly boiled with marine life are now desolate.
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The forest urban interface East of the Mississippi is not exempt from fire. There's no safe place.