Excellent advice. Very pertinent right now. This is the window to get your shit together without going bananas about it.

I am forecasting 800 million to 1.5 billion deaths over the next 5-6 years in a global "Climate Catastrophe".

In Ukraine, we may be seeing the first war of the “Climate Crisis”.

Dust Bowl 2.0 will start in the US and Canada this year. It's going to be a bad year agriculturally. It's already starting.

Oat production crashed 40% in the US last year.

So, here's what I am stocking up on.

I like mixed nuts for example. My breakfast is usually a handful of mixed nuts, a piece of fruit, and tea. I am stockpiling nuts right now, one can at a time, every time I go to the store.

Because most of the world's nut supply comes from California. Where the drought is getting worse. There won't be nuts on the shelf next year except for peanuts. If the crop in the South doesn't get hammered.

I am also stocking up on tea. Because, it isn't grown in the US. The places it is grown are going to be very bad in a year or two. Tea is going to be hard to get.

I also got oatmeal. It's already harder to get on the shelves, by this Winter there may be very limited supplies. It keeps forever and it's versatile.

You don't have to build up a huge stockpile. But you should start doing it now. Next year will be worse.

In terms of what you should fear, your biggest Climate Risks are heatwaves and floods. Because both can kill you in hours.

If you haven't thought about how you are going to deal with those you should. Shaunta Grimes did a good piece recently on this topic.

How to Prepare for What’s Coming: A series of simple plans.

Shaunta is one of my personal "Climate Heroes" because of her realism around the issue. She inspired my first piece:

It’s Raining in Antarctica and the Arctic is on Fire

And I started my Climate Report 2022 with this,

"So, I wrote my first climate piece here on Medium almost 2 years ago, "It's Raining in Antarctica and the Arctic is on Fire". I wrote it in response to a piece by Shaunta Grimes about how she and her family moved from Las Vegas to Pennsylvania because of her concern about the effects of Climate Change on the world (Deep Adaptation: Is It The End of The World as We Know It?).

I thought her actions were intelligent, farsighted, and brave. It's not easy to pack up and move to a new place because you foresee disaster unfolding in the place you live. It requires a clear eyed acceptance of reality that most people just don't have."

I think highly of her. Her advice is very practical.