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.

  • Abraxiel
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    4 years ago

    Wildfires? No chance.

    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.