Unironically, Burlington Vermont. As civilization collapses, humanity flounders, and the oceans rise to consume us, Burlington will be a small, placid, island, representing the hope our society once had for it's future. The rents still gonna be really high tho.
Damn, even after the apocalypse we're still gonna have to pay rent.
Propublica put out a consolidation of maps from studies related to climate change impact on the US from 2030 to 2050 and Vermont had a couple of counties that was going to be the least hit. That's where I'm trying to convince my friends and family to relocate.
Establish an american branch of your locak Khan chapter. The prairies call for horse raiders! Return to Hun, reject modernity!
in the sheltered pasturages of the high Wyoming the horsemen shall grow strong and embrace the villages along the Rockies, then drive a great horde east to loot the great bastions on the lakes everyone is so foolishly advertizing ITT
our fictional apocalypses have ill-prepared us for how the apocalypse (or, as some call it, collapse) is actually going down. i think the mistakes in our predictions are along these lines:
- that it will happen all at once, as a single great cataclysm
- that we will experience a collapse in centers of power, and then in quality of life and what might be called "civil" society.
I think I'm preaching to the choir on this stuff, but it's still important to keep these mistakes in mind. from this point of view we can understand apocalypse as a spectrum that runs from zombies, aliens, the Rapture, solar flares, and nuclear war, on through to oil and chemical spills, crop and livestock diseases, biodiversity collapse, freak cold snaps, financial crisis, and all the policies of neoliberal austerity including privatization of public goods and expansion of the police state. That's the worst part, is that there are cops in the apocalypse, and more of them as it worsens.
The Apocalypse is already happening. It's just that you don't live there yet.
I was thinking maybe a great lakes state, but...
Missouri has a massive cave network that naturally purifies water and access to several major rivers.
So I'm dark horsing any city in Eastern Missouri.
A decent basement, heat pump, biodiesel-powered air conditioner, or even primitive underground air tunnel will save you from dangerous wet bulb temps. They're not a death sentence.
Unironically Michigan. It’ll be the least affected by global warming and they still take decent care of their fresh water reserves. Sadly the entire state North of the capital is now Chudland
The great lakes region of North America in general is one of the most secure areas on earth in terms of safety from natural disasters, resistance to climate change, and water security. Upper Michigan in particular is one of the least targeted areas for potential nuclear ICBM strikes. So if I had to choose one proper city to hunker down in, it would probably be Marquette.
I mean, I'm fairly certain enemy states have their nukes pointed at the Great Lakes specifically to deplete freshwater supply so
While not the US per se, do you happen to know if this carries over to Canadian cities like Toronto? Two great lakes are relatively close to each other, and at the risk of outing myself as a :LIB: even harder, I am looking for possible ways to leave the US before any T. Di*ries shit gets pulled.
Detroit - because conditions will only improve.
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Somewhere in Puerto Rico.
I don't care how much of a bad idea it is because of climate change, white people are a minority there so it's less likely I'll be torn apart by nazi hordes.
It still should get ample precipitation just from westerly wind, even in the most fucked up climate catastrophe scenario. One issue with PR is that food production would be pretty dicey in a supply chain collapse. Without a lot of chemical inputs, you would have to basically farm every surface possible if you wanted to feed everyone already there. But that's probably going to be true everywhere.
Well, if industrial society collapses at this point that's basically it. The survivors will be stuck at some level of techno feudalism, so I guess I'd want to be somewhere along the Appalachians. Good mountain borders, lots of fresh water, potential for ocean trade as things settle out. It's got a lot of upsides.
Possibly somewhere in Michigan could make a good go of it. It's a peninsula surrounded by fresh water. Lots of options for trade , resources, agriculture.
That's about it really, the southwest would basically be hell on earth. The great plains would turn into a dustbowl again. Florida RIP, and the west cost doesn't have enough reliable water supplies. And that's assuming that climate change and drought won't fuck the region, and the next big quake won't wreck every bit of surviving infrastructure.
cities and apocalypse dont go well together , but a valley somewhere in north west i would say , "Twin peaks" ...
Was gonna say Great Lakes but at the current rate of dioxin formation..
Thunder Bay though. Laugh now, but you’ll see.
Terry Fox set out to run across Canada but he made it to Thunder Bay before deciding that dying of cancer would be less depressing than going the rest of the way through Ontario.
