i left "home" due to climate change anxiety literally >15 years ago. because why wait until everybody is making for the door? fomo?
when people i meet find out where i am from, i always describe myself as a "climate change refugee" and people just laughed in those first 5 years. maybe 10 years ago, they would laugh at the "joke" and then an hour/day later say, "i've been thinking about what you said, about being a climate refugee... are you serious?" "yes!"
in the last 3-4 years, it doesn't even get a laugh. just a nod. because where i am is now fucked. the people who stuck around are not of the type that make a community better. they are head-in-the-sand types at best, and actively, willfully ignorant at worst. lots of armed and angry people in a room with the only thing standing between them and the A/C going out are the capitalists in charge of the energy industry while the infrastructure gets pummeled by stronger and stronger storms.
i left "home" due to climate change anxiety literally >15 years ago. because why wait until everybody is making for the door? fomo?
when people i meet find out where i am from, i always describe myself as a "climate change refugee" and people just laughed in those first 5 years. maybe 10 years ago, they would laugh at the "joke" and then an hour/day later say, "i've been thinking about what you said, about being a climate refugee... are you serious?" "yes!"
in the last 3-4 years, it doesn't even get a laugh. just a nod. because where i am is now fucked. the people who stuck around are not of the type that make a community better. they are head-in-the-sand types at best, and actively, willfully ignorant at worst. lots of armed and angry people in a room with the only thing standing between them and the A/C going out are the capitalists in charge of the energy industry while the infrastructure gets pummeled by stronger and stronger storms.