Where to escape climate change in the U.S.

[anon27554371]

Thanks for the link. Had not seen/read that one yet.

@robotmonkeys

(Good luck moving there if you’re not white. You’ll hurt the “social cohesion”.)

My parents started “hurting social cohesion” when they (a) [legally] emigrated from war-torn countries to the U.S. in the 1950s, and then (b) ignored U.S. miscegenation laws in 1960s. So yeah, it’s very likely that given the fact of my existence, I would be labeled as a social-cohesion-hurter even if all I am is a happy mutant, a generalist, interested in many and wide-ranging things. Chief among those: clean breathable air, clean water, soil fertility with a notable lack of heavy metals and other toxic nasty stuff, etc.

@robotmonkeys

I thought this was going to be a bit more serious

Yeah me too.
I glazed over at that point and went back to my own way of contemplating the matter.

@gracchus

I’ve made my principle residence in a large and affluent city in the green zone in significant part because I want to maintain some semblance of the life I’m accustomed to when I enter my retirement years (and to provide a haven for younger family members).

Wow.
Serious long-range planning.
Good on you.
Your fam’s lucky to have you!

@gracchus

That doesn’t mean I won’t be affected by the climate emergency, though.

Truth.
Every single living organism is going to be affected.

See what three degrees of global warming looks like

The planet’s global south has been affected rather more than us in the northern hemisphere, but one look at the First Nations villages flooding out in the Arctic right now, the endless fire weather bulletins in Greece, Canada, U.S. PNW, a glance at the 2021 Polar Vortex that kicked me hard… these all tell the story: no escape, just timing.

@moortaktheundea

A huge number of our problems relate to residential vacancies and low real estate prices.

It’s a global pandemic in itself. A huge number indeed. I can’t even begin to frame my feelings about what AirB&B and short-term rental properties and venture- and vulture-capitalists and hedge funders have done to housing–residential housing. My eyes are on Berlin after that vote. We… shall… see…

@moortaktheundea

There’s a reason the region has led the country in arson for ages.

@moortaktheundea

The science on that is really weird and in flux … No two projections I’ve seen agree on likely seasonal trends long term.

Sheesh you ain’t kidding.

Future global warming

@moortaktheundea

Ohio was part of New France. When I’m arguing that Cleveland should be given back to Connecticut I sometimes have to cite old maps of the region to argue why we should be part of, Quebec, Connecticut, or France, rather than being tied to the rest of the state.

And then the Germans showed up in Ohio.
As they so often do…

Chronology : The Germans in America (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)

1890 - An estimated 2.8 million German-born immigrants lived in the United States. A majority of the German-born living in the United States were located in the “German triangle,” whose three points were Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and St.Louis.

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