Is there any reason to be optimistic about it, or are we all doomed? As far as I’ve looked it up, the more optimistic projections predict a 1-2° global temperature rise in the next few decades, which is pretty bad.
Is it a smart decision to start moving to higher/colder regions yet? What can we do?
And is there a good resource or video essay or whatever for this? There is so much misinformation and fearmongering around climate change. It’s a hassle to weed out any trustable information.
Mandatory part so people don’t come at me as a denialist:
We’ve done a bad job, close to as bad as we could have. Government policies have been a drop in the bucket, and there’s already a lot of backlash to them. Coral reefs are going to go extinct, or close - it’s just hard to imagine any other scenario. Coffee and chocolate might get hard to come by.
We’ve lucked out and technology change looks like it will stop us from digging deeper and deeper. I think we would have otherwise.
But, there is hype in this thread.
Waterfront property might be sketchy. Ditto for agricultural property where it’s supposed to really dry out. Just for living, as opposed to making a living, though, people already manage in Arizona and Kuwait. Climate change will be expensive and uncomfortable, and I’m already really tired of wildfires, but unless your reaching us from the cyber cafe in your Bangladeshi village you’ll likely personally survive.
The main thing I can think of that you can personally do to adapt is be prepared for weather emergencies. You probably know some of the tips to avoid contributing.