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.
From humanities perspective: we are fucked and for the next few thousand years the average human wont have as comfortable a life as we had for the past decades.
For you personally: you will more likely be affected passively than actively. What I mean is your house will probably not be blown away by a tornado, but the amount of people it happens to will increase exponentially and so on average everyone will have to pay the price. Food will get way more expensive as crops will be harder to grow, immigration will boom as millions will lose their homes along coasts and flee from areas where living becomes impossible. This will probably lead to fascism booming even harder and wars breaking out all around the world.
I guess as long as you are prepared well enough and dont live in risky areas you will be able to live your life relatively comfortably, just for your kids’ generation to suffer 100 times as much as they would have had to if we just paid a little attention as a species.