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   GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 15:14:01 JST GhostOnTheHalfShell

   #climatechange #urbanPlanning

   Someone posted the following article a week or so ago. It touches on a topic many here might understand. Climate risk includes systemic shocks could trigger a break down in the global and even national economies. Locality is an insurance policy.

   “Then there are things that can be done quickly, and locally. Communities that “had been doing some of this work before the pandemic hit were better able to adapt” to the 2020 disruptions…”

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   https://newrepublic.com/post/180192/food-atlantic-ocean-climate-crop-failure-prepare

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     GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 15:14:13 JST GhostOnTheHalfShell

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     I tend to look at it two fold. Locality, things like car-free and regional self sufficiency for the basics of food, water, shelter and energy (including water power) are mitigation and adaptation combined.

     They take us off the hydrocarbon economic pathway we are set on by BigOil and its billionaire owners. They are resilience to the changes set in motion.