Wondering which states in America you believe are best situated to deal with incoming disasters, and/or other countries you think are less likely to face some of the more severe effects.
Wondering which states in America you believe are best situated to deal with incoming disasters, and/or other countries you think are less likely to face some of the more severe effects.
Michigan:
You're nowhere near the coast, so no need to worry about sea level rise.
Even if hurricanes keep getting bigger, they're not getting anywhere close to Michigan.
We're a couple hundred miles from tornado alley, so no worries there.
Droughts? LMAO!
Heat? Crank it up by five degrees here and you're still getting mountains of snow every year.
Wildfires? No chance.
Mosquitoes/disease? Could happen anywhere, but the northern US is more protected from them than anywhere else in the country.
Legit Michigan is probably the state most insulated from the effects of climate change.
I dunno about that. Northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota are heavily forested and full of conifers and birch. If things started to get consistently dry, it could be pretty bad, especially given the relative lack of road infrastructure and firefighting resources.
The big problem people don't consider with the great lakes region is that once you hit conifer forests and wetlands in the north, the soil is very acidic and sandy. Lower Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and southern Ontario have decent agricultural product, and that will likely remain, but it will not be enough to support a massive influx of people without additional crops from the southern Midwest and great plains. If long-distance transport breaks down and local production becomes essential, the north woods are never going to feed a large population, even with a longer growing season. Maybe this could be ameliorated with hothouses and soil engineering, but we're not really talking about a context where that's likely. Hunting and fishing would help, but fish populations have already been heavily, heavily reduced and I don't think the deer would hold up long.
All this being said, yeah, it's probably the best place to go. Go join in revitalizing a proletarian society in Detroit, Milwaukee, or Chicago or fuck off to a commune in the north woods where you might survive enough winters to engage in the 4-wheeler cavalry battles of the future.
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Upper Peninsula is majority chuds, but the population is pretty low so a migration of new people would rival their size quickly.
Plus if the US completely collapses it's an easy escape into C*nada
I've read articles with similar conclusions
Yeah I mean the biggest problems are probably sea level rise, droughts, and wildfires, so you just gotta be away from the coasts, north, and east. Upper Midwest and non-coastal New England are your best bets, and Michigan/Wisconsin/Upstate NY (to a lesser extent) get bonus points for the Great Lakes.
This is the state I was seriously considering moving to until I realized how valuable my family support system is in my current state.
What about the great lakes? Will they face rising levels as well?
They can flood and will likely face much more serious ebbs and flows, but all of the Great Lakes are well above sea level.