Richard Crim
1 min readMay 9, 2022

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AWESOME LIST. Realistic, practical, hits all the important points. Ties personal actions, political actions, and community actions together into an integrated whole. I like this list, it's one of the better ones.

The only quibble I have, would be a request to add something about doing a realistic assessment of where you live "right now". The old days, of just assuming that because your house has been someplace for 50, 75, or 100 years "it will be fine", are over.

Before you settle in you need to consider a sites exposure to fire, flood, landslide, severe storm, and possibly tornado risk. All of these can destroy everything you have worked for in an instant and leave you a "Climate Refugee".

Of all of these risks, flood is the most dangerous.

Global Warming is causing billions of tons of water to shift from the oceans into the atmosphere. The hydrological cycle of the planet is becoming more active.

Climate change is intensifying Earth’s water cycle at twice the predicted rate, research shows.

Rising temperatures pushing much more freshwater towards poles than climate models previously estimated.

When that water does condense out of the atmosphere, it's going to be in rainstorms that none of our existing infrastructure is equipped to handle.

It's not a question of "if" dams start failing, it's just a matter of "when", and then "how many" per year.

If you live on low ground, before you do anything else, you should move. It's the single biggest thing you can do at this point to improve your long term odds.

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Richard Crim
Richard Crim

Written by Richard Crim

My entire life can be described in one sentence: Things didn’t go as planned, and I’m OK with that.

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