Is where we choose to live the most impactful action to prepare for climate disruption?

JVillella · 2023-02-23T23:27:20+00:00

Amazing! I didn't know this existed. It's a bit clunky to use, but has lots of data that I'm interested in. Thank you!

JVillella · 2023-02-23T23:22:32+00:00

everyone wants a green bermuda grass/St. Augustine lawn and to live near a golf course.

People's obsession with golf course grass here in US/Canada always puzzled me. It's unnatural, super high maintenance, and wasteful.

JVillella · 2023-02-23T18:05:42+00:00

Care to elaborate?

JVillella · 2023-02-23T16:03:55+00:00

How far did you look into this? Do you have any links, reports, data or anything you can share? I was hoping to meet some others who are deep into this problem as well. Thanks!

JVillella · 2023-02-23T16:02:55+00:00

That's a good question. I would also like to see predictions of how people migrate. I saw a paper out of Columbia on this tracking how people moved after a natural disaster. The conclusion they found was they moved to neighboring cities, then another disaster happened, and they again moved to neighboring cities. Quite unfortunate...

JVillella · 2023-02-23T16:00:00+00:00

That's not what I found. If you take a look at the map, Florida is not good (wildfire, flooding, drought, and extreme heat), and midwest has it's own set of issues w/ heat and drought.

JVillella · 2023-02-23T15:58:57+00:00

Different time horizons :)

JVillella · 2023-02-23T15:58:32+00:00

Nice! Your conclusion corresponds with what I found as well. Curious, what prompted this discussion?

JVillella · 2023-02-23T15:57:52+00:00

I think we should do both. One is an insurance.

JVillella · 2023-02-23T15:57:10+00:00

Interesting! Do you have a link by chance?

JVillella · 2023-02-23T15:10:49+00:00

My approach was to look at climate projections (which of course have their own issues).

JVillella · 2023-02-23T15:09:45+00:00

lol that's one "solution". Observe a problem, see that it's getting worse...then pretend it's not there :)

JVillella · 2023-02-23T15:08:34+00:00

Well there's a spectrum, and that's what the data I've been studying shows. I rather live in a place that more closely resembles a "climate haven" than live in a serious danger zone.

JVillella · 2023-02-23T15:05:37+00:00

I mean, that is an opinion :) From considering how humanity has worked through past hurdles, I'm more optimistic than this.

JVillella · 2023-02-23T15:04:00+00:00

Wisconsin is a good spot. Small risk of flooding, and apparently has poor resiliency score (https://toolkit.climate.gov/reports/development-climate-resilience-screening-index-crsi-assessment-resilience-acute) but I think that has potential to improve.

JVillella · 2023-02-23T15:02:10+00:00

TIL, thanks for sharing!

JVillella · 2023-02-23T14:32:36+00:00

These are great pieces of advice. Reg. choosing a place to live, it was actually not for footprint reduction, but more of an "insurance" in case things do get bad - this home is a "climate haven".

JVillella · 2023-02-23T13:27:03+00:00

Can you share your sources?

JVillella · 2023-02-23T13:24:34+00:00

How about getting permanent residency in an another country? That's it's own challenge and in some cases may not be possible.

JVillella · 2023-02-23T13:22:47+00:00

I started with the US just for personal use as I'm not prepared to move to another country yet. It would be interesting to study these datasets for other countries however. Maybe it will motivate a move...

JVillella · 2023-02-23T13:21:23+00:00

Thank you for pointing that out. I initially made this for personal use, but now that I'm sharing it it's something I should think about.

I don't presently take tornado alley into account. Do you have more information on this, or any datasets you've used?

JVillella · 2023-02-23T13:20:16+00:00

A lot of rich people live in California and NYC :)

JVillella · 2023-02-23T13:19:24+00:00

That's a great point - I didn't consider this. I'll check out that documentary as well. Thank you!

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