The Best Places To Live To Survive Climate Change

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We hear a lot about ways to mitigate climate change, but as the effects start to pile up, we should probably talk about ways to prepare for the worst. So let's look at the best places around the world to live to survive climate change.
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projects.propublica.org/clima... -- "niche today"
www.pnas.org/cms/10.1073/pnas...
-- yellow-orange band
www.foxweather.com/extreme-we...
calclimateag.org/climatethrea...
texascorn.org/education/corn-...
/ how-will-climate-chang...
www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...
boston.maps.arcgis.com/apps/C...
abcnews.go.com/International/...
www.pbs.org/newshour/show/wha...
grist.org/climate/theres-no-a...
www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/...
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/galler... - PICS
• Centralia: The Real-Li... - my video
projects.propublica.org/clima...
www.thebalancesmb.com/best-pl...
www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/bu...
www.theguardian.com/environme...
www.researchgate.net/publicat...
www.bbc.com/news/world-europe...
climateactiontracker.org/coun...
www.reuters.com/world/america...
earth.org/best-places-to-live...
TIMESTAMPS -
0:00 - Current Extreme Weather
3:10 - Human Climate Niche
5:13 - Tangent Cam
5:52 - Reduced Crop Yields
6:29 - Climate Refuges
9:00 - Refuges: Other Alternatives
10:45 - Lifeboat Countries
12:08 - A Greener Greenland?
14:40 - Sponsor - Henson Shaving

[@gileso2206]

Your maps of Africa and South America at 11:25 had me head scratching. It took a minute to realise what was wrong: the African countries are projected onto South America and vice versa. Its quite trippy, like looking at the continents in a hall of mirrors.

[@santiagopm88]

A crucial thing not discussed here: the issue is not just that vulnerable people are less able to move to low risk areas. Those who happen to live in low risk areas will have rich people move to them, gentrifying them and displacing the vulnerable. As much attention should be paid to how to preserve the rights of the poor to the safer areas where they now live

[@davidnotonstinnett]

Not to sound callous, but why do they deserve life more than me? I have no ability to gentrify anything, so I’m not speaking as some rich person who is going to be able to buy land and displace anyone, I’m just wondering your justification for some people living and some people dying based on circumstances beyond any one person’s control. And if you are okay with that in one case then why not in others?

[@justinmas299]

The sky is also blue captain obvious

[@santiagopm88]

@@davidnotonstinnett you aren't wealthy? Then this doesn't apply to you, as you will be priced out of those areas too. See how that's an invalid argument? When planning for how many vulnerable people will be displaced, and how much societal effort should be expended now to protect them, you need to include everyone who will be priced out of safety, not just those who are currently in high risk areas. Can we agree to that much?

[@jon420]

Seeing the shrinkage in the state of Florida, those people will be migrating. I say...Build the wall across Georgia and South Carolina.

[@jinabrasser9439]

Indeed, the rich elites rule the world 😟They are the incarnation of a new type of monarchy….big business & corporation owners are our new rulers….they’re little tyrannies, so of course they’re going to hog all of the habitable places on earth during the worst of the climate change disaster that THEY have all brought upon us 🤔😠😡

[@jthompson6189]

We're pretty screwed. People are still debating if this is a real problem. I lost all faith in humanity when people dying from COVID were denying its existence.

[@Buckshot99]

I lost faith when people were getting fired from jobs because they needed want a new flu shot. You are going to be fine.

[@ElectricAlien577]

​@Buckshot99 we are absolutely not going to be fine. As much as I advocate for fighting climate change, I can't wait to see all the science deniers eat their words when food is so expensive only rich people can afford it.

[@billisaacs702]

I don't know of anybody who denied the existence of COVID. The contention was its overblown effects being used to do shady business. Like sixty seven million mail in ballots, the most ever cast in any election in any nation in history by a long way. A "gift from God" for the DNC as it was called by one podcaster and former Hillary Clinton aid. Talk about yer faith in humanity.

[@jaxvoice718]

When I was younger, living in Oslo, Norway, I was looking for places to live that was warmer in winter (Portugal was one of the candidates). Now, I am thinking of moving north to Arctic Scandinavia instead. The hot summers are now more of a climate bother than cold winters.

[@nunooliveira1628]

I can understand that, being a portuguese farmer dealing with drought but I see in the last years that heatwaves are very intense in northern europe too, some months were hotter in germany than here. The best areas seem to be near the sea (because it regulates heat and cold) but right on the waterfront because of storms, wind and erosion.

[@heidih.2465]

You can always put on more clothes when it’s cold. There’s only so many clothes you can take off in the heat!

[@piotrwojdelko1150]

@@nunooliveira1628 In Poland summers are not warmer ,maybe colder however winters are much warmer than 10 yrs ago.I have vineyard and grapes are very sensitive to climate ,much more than apple .I remember when the same variety was to pick in August last year I had to pick them in October.the same variety

[@paradice8]

i agree, every winter the temperature doesn't phase me, i look forward to winter and dred summer now... and i have never used to do that in my entire life

[@dannyboy-vtc5741]

​@@nunooliveira1628yeah that's absolutely true, i live in the north of croatia, 12 km from hungarian border, the edge of the great panonian plain, we have like "propper continental climate" here, not the mediterranean one, but the summers are hotter than on the coast, like they've always been, in heat waves there's like 34 - 35, here's more like 37, 8, 9 even, the sea does cool the air a lot. When i was a kid in the 80s we would go skating on the lakes in winter, that isn't possible for the last 25 years, we have maybe a month of snow per winter, but that's not all at once, but 3-4 times a winter with some little snow, a propper snow like a foot for at least coupke of weeks before it thaws, maybe once in four years. Also you need at least few days in a row of -7 to have an ice harvest of grapes for the ice wine, we have the ice harvest maybe once in four years too, couple of my neighbours have fig trees, before you wouldn't have figs here at all or until the late fall, nowadays both of them have figs every summer here in the north, and all figs i see in the city that people plant mostly for the looks and smells are now fruiting regularly, also the meadow flowers, the most ofetn ones you see in the city like dandelions and daisies, they weren't there mid winter before, nowadays they are, i see it every winter as i walk my dog daily, they is not ad much of them like in the summer and they have shorter stems, but mid december or january every green surface small or big has at least dandelion and daisy flowers mid winter, sure shorter, closer to ground but they are there, on the other hand if you have irigation and plastic foil cowers you can plant all season IN THE MOST NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTRY, with "continental climate" and vegetation, and grain harvests never came earlier, when people before put corn in the ground after the wheat harvest for silage for their livestock, can now plant it in some cases as normal corn, i've seen it, it's only the drought that mostly prevented it, but this year i think people will change their views because silage corn matures properly with regular rainfall this year, well not regular more too much if it in too small a time and too often, but that's how it is.

[@BluetheRaccoon]

I was doing some digging to figure out who dumped arsenic in the great salt lake and have seen that dry lake beds are being considered for future wastewater dumping, and I can't imagine how bad the environmental impact will be if these things are allowed. An east coast company wants to dump coal ash, lead and mercury in it, while the Jordan Valley Water Conservancy wants to dump selenium-laden wastewater into it. I don't understand people who refuse to see consequences for the dollar numbers.

[@danlscan]

The Great salt Lake is a sink. This means that all the water flowing in has no place to drain. So all water soluble chemicals present in the surrounding high ground become concentrated. It's probable that's why the arsenic is there although I've no specific knowledge of the region. The main problem happens when the lake dries up and the wind blows the dust into Salt Lake City.

[@Jake12220]

Arsenic isn't that bad unless it gets above a threshold amount. Our bodies process it easily in small amounts because it's naturally in a lot of our food. As for dumping waste into any dry lake bed, sheesh... As an Australian we are all too aware how quickly a lake bed that's been dry for decades can turn into an inland sea. Just because it's been drying up for a century doesn't mean it won't come back again. Sometimes it just takes an unusual or infrequent weather event to completely change the situation.

[@dionh70]

Those who prioritize short-term financial gain over long-term consequences are everywhere, and most commonly known as "shareholders".

[@maythesciencebewithyou]

why spend lets say 500 bucks per ton on proper waste disposal, if you can get some mafia type person to do it for 499 bucks and you get to pocket that 1 dollar

[@danecantwell22]

Arsenic is natural in the salt lake.

[@nathanielacton3768]

Joe, the drought and floods are often related. Here in Australia we are used to the two extremes being correlated. For us, the reason the floods are so bad is because the soil is hardened by the sun baking. Over months of very low rain the soil itself becomes impervious to water absorption, almost like the soil has been waxed. The hardened water resistant soil then causes water to move down hill rather than become absorbed by what you would think of as the thirst earth. Due to this (and other reasons) Australia barely has any top soil.

[@winelive5500]

Top soil or lack of it is much more related to geographical age and agricultural caused erosion. That erosion is due to tillage of the soil and related water and wind erosion

[@reuireuiop0]

Didn't the old Aboriginals have a tradition of controlled burning practices ? Reckon, if you continue doing that thru past climate changes, at a time Oz climate got drier, you might find the old bush didn't grow back like it used. Then, with time, burning over and over, you lose topsoil, as that mainly consists of weathered down vegetation waste.

[@waffles3782]

@@reuireuiop0 the indigenous methods of burning are actually regenerative, and help to restore nutrient layers increasing quality of topsoil. But the majority of Australia is uninhabited desert, sand and rock. It's the most ancient land on the planet, most of it worn completely flat by sun, wind and rain over billions of years.

[@nathanlevesque7812]

Australia wasn't as arid before Euro-colonization, due to indigenous land management techniques.

[@nathanielacton3768]

@@nathanlevesque7812 Holy cow mate. Go find some evidence to back that up please. For everyone else, the technique of burning down whole forests was not "regenerative". It essentially excluded all species that could not tolerate being burnt or did not benefit from it. What you'll see in Australian temperate forests are species that are violently flammable and tolerate burning. This provides an ecological benefit to those species because they can survive and colonize areas to the exclusion of competing species. Sapiens over ~50k years have managed to destroy the land over and over so thoroughly that the existing species are the only ones which can survive the additional hostility of constant burning. That's not a "Responsible management" unless you say "now that the damage is done, that's the best humans can do". The best mental starting point is to ponder what Australia looked like before man and ask "is it is better now". How could nature possibly exist without us! Generally speaking... better. lol. HINT : Actually do some checking on all the species extinctions in the past 50k years as a starting point. Try "Australian Megafauna". Then wonder, what hunting technique could possibly have killed off 90% an entire continents animals?

[@becurious2000]

Very interesting video. As a fellow Texan also from the Dallas Fort Worth area, even though I was born and raised in that area, I never was a fan of the heat. A lot of this video hit close to home. I ended up moving from Texas to Sweden August 2021 to escape the heat among many other reasons. It is amazing to see how even here in Sweden we are seeing changes. They are now growing crops here they did not before- for example grapes. I live in Helsingborg near Copenhagen and more and more people are buying air conditioners now. I had to buy one of those portable ones myself for my bedroom. Thanks for always making cool videos my fellow Texan :)

[@jwesthoff1021]

I’ve been thinking about making a similar move, and I have a question - How difficult is the language barrier? I struggle to learn languages.

[@becurious2000]

@@jwesthoff1021 Not go gonna lie, its a lot of work.😅 I have seen some smart savant people like Daniel Tammet that can learn a language in a week all the way to those that are never able to learn a language despite living in a foreign country for 30 years. We all fall on the spectrum somewhere. I think it really depends on a lot of factors. For me, I have been here 16 months in Sweden and studied Swedish 15 months. I speak mostly Swedish everyday now but I really pushed my self pretty hard. I feel like after I am here 2 years I should be mostly fluent in Swedish. What helps is Swedish seems to be easier to learn for German and English speakers as there is a lot of overlap of the two languages. Living in the land that a language is spoken is super helpful but not a guarantee.

[@User31129]

He says "You can barely go outside for three months a year." As if you can go outside for more than 9 months a year in North Dakota!

[@illbeyourstumbleine]

@@becurious2000 how hard was it to be accepted to become a resident of Sweden? That’s where most of my apprehension comes from. My husband is in upper management at Time Warner, so not quite desirable like healthcare or green energy. We are middle class (around 120,000 annually) so far from rich. Probably our biggest hurdle I have been disabled for the last 12 years :/ So I don’t see countries jumping at the bit to welcome us in with open arms. The gun violence here is my number one reason for wanting to leave. My mother was in a workplace shooting in the 80s and I have some PTSD around guns. Every time there is a new place in the news where one happens that place is marked off my list on places I can go without a panic attack. Needless to say I am practically home bound at this point. We just bought land in BFE to hopefully increase my quality of life, but I really miss simple things like the movies or grocery shopping. Thanks for any advice and I hope you’re doing well❤

[@spaceman9599]

Moved to Sweden from the UK in 1995 for proper winters, now disappearing in the middle.

[@williamhealey1223]

I'm a long time resident of Eastern Pennsylvania and I've long missed my cooler summers and cold winters. Been thinking about moving up to Lake Erie. It still snows in feet there in winter.😊

[@thecellulontriptometer4166]

While I was in the Army, I was stationed in Djibouti Africa for a year. It is the only place I ever deployed where they told us not to try to acclimate. High temperatures regularly hit 45 degrees Celsius(113 degrees Fahrenheit) in the summer months. Also since it was right off the Gulf of Tadjoura the humidity was between 30 and 50 percent. I remember a day when it hit 50 degrees Celsius, and a bird that had been in a cluster around an air conditioner tried to fly away and fell out of the sky. If more places in the world turn into this, life will get really hard for anyone or anything that can't physically cope with heat.

[@jimmyjones8676]

You can mitigate it somewhat with windcatchers and the like.

[@bigbcor]

What countries military were you in? I’ve never hear of such rubbish before. You always, always try to acclimatize to the best of your ability. Drink more water, add salt to your food if needed to replenish electrolytes etc etc. US Marine myself. Been to below zero climates and climates above 120 degrees F with varying humidity. You always do what you can, some environments you may never fully be able to acclimatize to but you give yourself a chance. Your instructors were garbage if they told you not to bother…

[@christopheralbano3570]

​@@bigbcor While I generally agree (former US Army EOD), making yourself unnecessary heat-casualties isn't a good way to run a war either. Sometimes a part of effective acclimatization is adjusting how you operate to mitigate unnecessary risks.

[@thecellulontriptometer4166]

@@bigbcor US Army Officer 33 years. Camp Lemonier is right off the airport. French Foreign Legion desert warfare school is there, and they do not train July and August. . If you have not been there, and have not been in heat over 120F with a fair amount of humidity then you do not know. I have been to every country in the Middle East except Yemen and none compare to Djibouti. Based on the way you put this, you are disrespectful and if a service member I am ashamed of you coming on a public forum acting like a know it all. If you are going around youtube posting like this you are just perpetuating negative stereotypes about arrogant US service members. You should be ashamed of yourself and admit there are things you do not know.

[@dealhunter4536]

Climate change is as real as the WWE.

[@bknesheim]

Live in one of those Nordic countries on the list at 100+ meter elevation so I am not planning any moving, but personally I think that international social unrest will be a much stronger force in changing where we can and will live long before change in climate make it necessary.

[@Diana1000Smiles]

How many Earthlings are City dwellers?

[@bknesheim]

@@firstandlastname6194 With the little discussion going on between Russia and Ukraine we have a taste of what can happen already. 😞

[@bknesheim]

@@Diana1000Smiles Close to 60% live in cities, but there is still just a few mega cities with more then 10 millions. We can expect this number to grow in the next few decades.

[@rogerstarkey5390]

@@bknesheim But, unless I'm mistaken, the majority of those cities are costal, so there's another problem....

[@KanedaSyndrome]

Yeh denmark here near the coast, but 20 meters above sea level.

[@fmusopp]

"I don't want to live in a place I can't even be outside for 3 months of the year" LOL's from Canada.

[@CyScorpion]

I lived in Grand Forks ND for 5 years and hated every moment of it and now you're saying its going to become a huge area to live in the future.

[@glamdestruction2167]

I've been living in the North for quite a few years, and this summer we had 6 weeks of non-stop rain in South East Alaska, I was tempted to complain, but then I saw the state of the rest of the world and decided that, all facts considered, we had a phenomenal summer and I wouldn't trade it. The far North is still scarcely populated, and I can definitely see it booming in years to come.

[@RobertMJohnson]

like many others, you don't realize that thee fastest growing nations are equatorial. yes, around the equator; ie, HOT. Even if north america gets hotter, we will simply build out the electrical grid so that people can run their AC more. we will transport water to farmland, and we will adapt and prosper. it's that simple.

[@davidjennings2179]

@@RobertMJohnson The farmland is the issue, it isn't as simple as pumping water out to crops. Where does the water come from when your lakes and rivers are drying up? Crop yields will drop and food production will follow. Farmers, at least, will have to move

[@RobertMJohnson]

Please cite the research you did showing how irrigating arable land in the West is somehow not possible. You didn't do the research did you? your post is 100% emotional speculation with absolutely NOTHING to back it up, right? my question is rhetorical. i already know I'm right. the most advanced society in the world won't be able to irrigate farms, yet the fastest growing nations on Earth are at the Equator where it's nice and temperate and cool, right, Jennings?

[@friedfrawg]

lol he complained about NOT being able to go outside for only 3 months out of the year. Alaska, where the sun rises and sets in 50 minutes for 3 months out of the year.

[@xvillin]

I don't know how it's been there but here in Anchorage it's been raining almost everyday since mid July. Just almost never fucking stops. I can hardly scoop up dog poop in my yard or mow the lawn unless I do it in the rain.

[@jgr7487]

as a South-American, I absolutelu loved the switched political maps of South-America & Africa!

[@TheThomasites]

Saw that. Had to do a double take on it. Lol

[@jerry3790]

As someone from Africa, same

[@mmmww2217]

As someone from Asia, same

WTH?? I had to do like a triple take. How did that happen?

[@patrick87209]

As a Brazilian, it took me a good 10 seconds to understand why I wasn't recognizing Brazil on South America's map

[@jonathanmillner]

Duluth Minnesota! It used to be famed for it's brutal winters. Now... not so much... It's a cool town. Check it out! On a further note, I grow grapes and make wine in Minnesota. 20 years ago, the season was barely long enough to ripen some grape varieties. Now... there is often 2-3 weeks of viable season left after our grapes are well ripe and harvested. Seeing the change is pretty straight forward in my world...

[@Off_the_clock_astrophysicist]

I made the determination that Texas was uninhabitable 20 years ago, when I burned my hand on the ceiling of our U-Haul truck while moving into our appartment in Austin... in August. I spent the decade following making plans to move back to cooler climates and I am happy to report, mission accomplished. I now live in North-East Pennsylvania, safely tucked up on a hill at a higher elevation. Summers are delightful, some snow shoveling is still required in the winter time, but I don't mind. That should get me to retirement, by which time we might have to commission our air conditioning. At that time, we'll move somewhere cooler and less expensive.

[@notmyname327]

I love how every time you tried to put a positive spin on it you immediately had to go back and clarify this wasn't actually good lol. Great video as always

[@madirajuabhimanyu8786]

None of it is good. Nunavut

[@nenmaster5218]

@@madirajuabhimanyu8786 This video here is a tiny bit lackluster Climate-Coverage, unlike UpisnotJump, Hbomberguy, OCC, Climate-Town, and Some-More-News. The latter being in General a Treasure-Box-of-Info as they are a 'Issue-listing and problem adressing' Type of Channel. So from Crops to Uvdelde, they got a wide Area covered.

[@ghensold]

Most of the areas in northern Canada, Greenland, and Iceland that will see an improvement in their climate will have a very limited increase in crop yields. Why? Because they don't have soil! These are landscapes dominated by bare rock or at most a thin layer of moss and lichen, and they will need hundreds of thousands of years of weathering and fluvial deposition to develop a decent amount of soil.

[@squirlmy]

although to be honest, even the Corn Belt would have had its soil depleted long ago if it weren't for massive fertilizer application. Agricultural science has advanced enough for that not to be a problem. Add hydroponics, aeroponics, and other advancements... move over you hosers!

[@ghensold]

@@squirlmy It's not about the fertility of the soil. Those areas in the corn belt at least have plenty of unconsolidated sediment for plants to get their roots into. The Canadian Shield area, in contrast, is mostly hard crystalline rock right at ground surface. Crops can't grow in that no matter how much fertilizer you give them.

[@Danielle-zq7kb]

They also won’t have enough sunlight for extended growing seasons like we have at lower latitudes. Maybe they will get a few weeks on either side of summer.

[@dmrr7739]

There is a large amount of arable land in the upper midwest that has been underutilized in the last fifty years. This is because year-round farming in the Imperial Valley and the irrigated Southwest has wiped out farms in the region. The land was converted to subdivisions, multiplying the sprawl issue. A lot of McMansions will need to be plowed under to bring it back into production.

[@bennyb.1742]

Also as someone who lives up there, the summers being 5-10°c hotter than when I was a kid make MASSIVE forest fires a really big concern. Like big enough that I'm probably going to move.

[@tylercoombs1]

I remember snowfalls in Toronto were just regular business, we would have 2 to 3 inches of snow on the ground for most of the winter. Now it snows maybe a dozen times a year if that and it rarely sticks. Last year we had a massive snow storm and within a week the snow was gone.

[@evans7771]

Real question did you guys even bother with shoveling, salting. What sort of techniques did you guys adopt to not slip and slide in the winter?

[@tylercoombs1]

@@evans7771 All of the above

[@utooslow]

If an inch of snow falls in Toronto everyone forgets how to drive. It’s frightening and sad but also hilarious

[@fauxshowyo]

nice anecdote. Try looking at the data (yes even the official data by the UN and such) and realize that the frequency and severity of climate disasters has gone down over the last couple generations and the average global temperatures haven't budged. But nice fear mongering, brosef.

[@tylercoombs1]

@@fauxshowyo According to the offical UN website Climate and Weather disasters have grown 5 times in the last 50 years. WTF are you talking about, you could have at least visited the UN's website LOOL

[@BlackOpMercyGaming]

I tend to use your channel as white noise, because I enjoy the topic and your voice… As a fellow Texan, departing the summer of 2023, how are those discussions about moving going now? Last summer was bad… This summer was prophetic… It is what people were warning us about for the last 10 years.

[@melchristensen8282]

I live in Ireland. NGL, when you started listing out those 'lifeboat' countries the thought did pop into my head 'Don't list us'. Because honestly, while we might be one of those lifeboat countries, we're small, have no army to speak of and are already sort of falling apart at the seams rn (cost of living crisis, housing crisis etcetc.) But the way I see it, we're all a bit screwed going forward. At least I might not have to face the possibility of moving. I also won't lie in that when I went looking for my house a decade ago, I also looked at sea levels and how they might rise. And I picked a house that I knew would be have enough elevation to keep me safe.

[@chazdomingo475]

You're one of the few forward thinking countries who is opening your borders to the rest of the world. I don't know why you are doing it, but I'm an American who has looked into leaving this shithole. Ireland is one of the few places I could realistically emigrate to. So yeah, things probably aren't changing. Good news is your house is likely to increase in value rapidly.

[@SomeKindOfNoob1]

No one of the age of 18-40 can afford houses in our country, it’s a disaster to live in im 27 and I’m going to emigrate in the next coming years there’s nothing here for people my age, the lifestyle is completely dead, rural areas are being massively affected it’s honestly just so awful to live here right now

[@secondchance6603]

@@chazdomingo475 "You're one of the few forward thinking countries who is opening your borders to the rest of the world." Open borders is the dumbest thing any country can do, just ask England, Scotland, Wales, Sweden, Germany, Italy, America, France and yes... even Ireland. Invite the third world, become the third world.

[@foxyboiiyt3332]

We in Ireland are relatively well set. The country is naturally bowl Shaped so rising seas won't affect us too much. Except Cork City! And we produce much more food than we eat, huge surplus exported. We certainly could survive with a bit less rain. All relatively good. Only real problem is the cost of housing. That's a problem the world over BTW. Move to rural Leitrim, Clare, Roscommon. Plenty of cheap houses.

[@silverback6497]

​@@foxyboiiyt3332 you are Irish, what's your education system like. I'm American thinking of emigrating

[@spaghettitoothjohn]

I have lived in Houston my entire life. Now at 51 yrs after the summer of 2022, my husband and I are absolutely moving not only for the future for our kids, but just to be healthier. Not being able to go outside for 3 months is generous, it’s more like 5 - 6 months. Plus we had to spend $15,000 on a home generator because we cannot count on our state to provide power to live. We are strongly looking at Colorado but after your video will take a look at the cities around The Great Lakes. I enjoy your content so much and it furthers my information about the world around me.

[@bbbf09]

A generator? Can I politely suggest solar panels and a storage battery will likley give you the power you need for similar price (or less) - and won't add to the misery of global warming from continued use of fossil fuels. If I can make solar panels work in the UK - where direct sun is only 30-40% of the time I think you can make them work in Houston. It's been an eye opener for me. I spend about £8k ($9k equivalent) and my electricity use from the grid has gone to near zero - or at least dropped by 90%... as has my bills.

[@jeffreysmith4586]

I don't live here, but Madison Wisconsin is a really nice place. It's got a small town feel with tons of biking paths, lakes, and small shops. Just a really nice place, as long as you don't mind cold and snowy winters.

[@313barrygmail]

Michigan's a terrible place!!!!!

[@jackielinde7568]

Yeah, Colorado is suffering the same Megadrought that most of the southwest has. You're better off heading north instead of west.

[@eugenehardy1597]

Then you should start looking for housing now, the market for houses has always been historically low, but it has been hitting u theses last few years. And bring rain boots, tall ones!

[@LogistiQbunnik]

I'm so glad I decided to make my home office in the basement when we moved in. In our weekend home (I use the stables there for my company) we've been looking at rejuvenating the trees, build water capture tanks etc. I am glad to live in a place that will most likely "just" become more volatile, although I suspect that many in the Netherlands , where I am from before moving to the Czech Republic will see quite a bit of big changes due to rising sea water levels. And having to learn suddenly to NOT flush all water out into sea like we have been getting experts at for about 500 years, but instead try and keep it stored somewhere since all parts that are actually above sea level are already suffering dry summers. Thanks for the video, I hope we can manage to make as many places still liveable, but yeah, it won't be easy sailing.

[@abe2856]

As a central Ohio resident, I have been saying for years that we seemed to be in a "sweet spot" for weather. Nice to be validated in that opinion.

[@zenith3783]

There needs to be a lot more content like this. Less "It's too late and we're effed" and more "Here's what you can do to prepare yourself. And here's the nitty gritty about what's going to happen in your specific area." I especially am curious about what people in possible climate havens, like myself, can be doing right now to prepare for future climate refugees. If more creators could do this, I think that would be fantastic. And I would love to see more videos like this in the future. Thank you!

[@smit1000]

It's a con. They have been saying these very warnings since the 1990s. Notice how he never included any real statistics in this video besides the controversial temperature graph? The sea level have offixal risen by less theb a centre metre in the last decade. Hurricanes and other tropical storms have been in decline for decades now. The number of deaths from weather natural disasters are at record lows.... crops were at record levels before covid halted production.. the world is more green now then ever.

[@clacclackerson3678]

It's going to involve guns, isn't it?

[@julius43461]

@@clacclackerson3678 Haha I was about to recommend guns

[@dr.jamesolack8504]

@Zenith Take your device, do some research and produce ‘…more content.’ Problem solved.

[@katzenjamma]

@@WinstonSmithGPT oceanfront isn't necessarily the best idea, if sea levels rise, you're fucked.

[@chrisblake4198]

One big thing not mentioned is, while the temps may change, the soil doesn't magically move and the sun almanac doesn't shift north. It's not going to be a simple thing to just start growing crops elsewhere as climate shifts. Successful industrial scale agriculture is going to become highly difficult. If you do move for climate, definitely try to find places that survived decently well on localized agriculture in their recent (

[@northeastslingshot1664]

Maine has been infested with Monsanto thru the Amish for last 20 years. All the corn they plant....Monsanto.

[@olga138]

Upstate NY checking in, and glad to be here. I imagine some of our agriculture will change as the climate warms up, but if you can deal with snow in the winter and heat in the summer, it's a great place to live.

[@MitchJohnson0110]

I live in Michigan's U.P. and I often think about how we would quite literally be the last people on Earth that would ever have to worry about fresh water. I live less than a mile from the north shore of Lake Michigan, 60 miles from Lake Superior. Not to mention the U.P. is full of streams, inland lakes, ponds, swamps, etc. Meanwhile in other parts of the world an entire civilization can fail from a river drying up. It's crazy

[@GhostlyFilm]

And people are going to move here and destroy the nature of UP, Wisconsin and Minnesota. I hate the idea that what we call home is gonna be overflowing with people.

[@swankshire6939]

Until they pipe the water away. They have already been talking about it for years, and they won't ever stop😢

[@MitchJohnson0110]

@@swankshire6939 It's not like they'll pump them dry. You gotta realize that drying out the great lakes would literally kill off most of North America and they know it. great lakes will be the last place to have fresh water

[@User31129]

Ghostly Film so basically what happened to Western Oakland County, northern Macomb County and Eastern Livingston County from 1970-2000.

[@fishinghuntingfool]

Best keep that information away from Nestlé company!

[@benjamindesjarlais5713]

Reporting back from Ireland re: the international section, there's a massive housing crisis everywhere in the country, and if that's not resolved by massive govt action to build and reclaim housing for the public stock, anyone who comes from worse-off places climate-wise is going to have an awfully hard time finding a bed

[@northeastslingshot1664]

You are in a depopulation event the 1% blame you for.

[@mikecat23]

The country is full of fixer ups . The thing is people want to live on the coasts and city’s. There’s a lot of towns that could be revitalized and none more than an hour from a big city

[@acorgiwithacrown467]

@@mikecat23 Those fixer ups are still twice what they should cost and not everyone can put in all the time to repair and refurbish an entire house.

[@playerroku4412]

The people buying those houses aren't normal.people

[@amadain17]

short term issue. This video is about the medium to long term

[@anonymoose9315]

Shocking! You learn something new every day, turns out there really are places outside of the US! Who would have thought?

[@anonymoose9315]

@Amethyst they aren’t? Since when? Can you tell me what is more American than Saudi Israelia?

[@nunya___]

...and the "Other Places" guy has enter chat.

[@anonymoose9315]

@KhanTutorialsBD my school had a map of the world but just said United States of America across the map.

[@kearnschafer2733]

Insane right? There's at least one other place!

[@Fuzzout]

I didn't know - AND I LIVE OUTSIDE OF US!

[@wideawake5630]

I've never done well in heat. Summer is my least favorite season. I love living in the Northwoods of Lower Michigan. It can be sweltering in town but comfortable in my forest home.

[@fauzirahman3285]

I bought that shaver based on this promo on an older video and have been pretty happy with it. To be fair I was already on a market to get rid of my old 3 bladed shaver that I was paying a fortune on on replacement blades. I was reminded of the old style razors that my dad used to use but couldn't find them in the shops because a small handful of companies keep promoting their multiple blade shavers.

[@thievesmeet]

i’ve lived in greenland for about 15 years now and the winters are getting colder, stormier and more unstable. overall we’re experiencing more winds and storms because the ice is melting. i can’t see myself living here in 10 years despite loving so much about it

[@Puddlef1sh]

How did you end up there? Sounds fascinating.

[@godisfake78]

I've lived in Florida my whole life, my mother and father my grandparents we've all lived here our whole lives. And the heat and humidity are killing me. I work outside for a living and I'm 44 years old and it's doing a number on my body.

[@helRAEzzzer]

Just gunna throw this out there for southerners moving north: New England's winters and summers have been getting more brutal every year. A lot of us here talk about moving somewhere with milder winters but not hotter summer temperatures than here. I'd avoid New England if you're moving for cooler weather. Your summers will probably be better here compared to Texas and the likes but not for long, I'd guess (though our humidity gets so high comparatively that it'd probably even out to feel fairly similar), and our winters get so much snow and ice that we struggle to dispose of it appropriately and the temperatures are regularly dropping into the -10°f's and colder (typically after windchill - it's normally about -10°f at the worst without wind chill) in January.

[@chickynuggy8150]

As an Australian I would say go to New Zealand. Summer’s here are getting unbearably hot and our bush fire season is getting long and worse. And where running out of water with less rainfall which is drying the land and trees.

[@deirdrelaski9460]

Sorry to hear. I used to live in NZ in the 80s. Now im in Florida and dreading each summer which lasts way too long...

[@estraume]

Three things: 1. As little as 6,000 years ago, the vast Sahara Desert was covered in grassland that received plenty of rainfall, but shifts in the world's weather patterns abruptly transformed the vegetated region into some of the driest land on Earth. You should make a video on how this can be compared to the climate change we are experiencing. 2. We should focus more research on adapting to climate change. 3. We should continue promoting and developing all types of carbon neutral energy sources.

[@MotocrossXMayhemX]

August in jersey was damn near unbearable this year, so many trees and peoples yards just died. I mean things usually get crispy in late summer but this year the amount of trees that I see they’re just brown and dried up was legitimately concerning

[@nunyabiznes33]

Wow, even in my tropical country I don't see that often during the summer months when we get almost no rain at all.

[@johndododoe1411]

Jersey, England or New Jersey, USA ?

[@binkao2938]

I’m assuming this is England..

[@MotocrossXMayhemX]

@@johndododoe1411 New Jersey, I’m used to just calling it jersey as is much of the state

[@nenmaster5218]

@@MotocrossXMayhemX This video here is a tiny bit lackluster Climate-Coverage, unlike UpisnotJump, Hbomberguy, OCC, Climate-Town, and Some-More-News. The latter being in General a Treasure-Box-of-Info as they are a 'Issue-listing and problem adressing' Type of Channel. So from Crops to Uvdelde, they got a wide Area covered.

[@lrm52283]

Just moved from dallas to Washington state in September...an area with highs of 73 in the summer, lows of 35 in the winter, minimal rain, minimal snow, mostly sunny.

[@KeKe-bv8qv]

I'm suddenly reminded of Coober Pedy in Australia where most of the homes are underground because of how incredibly hot it is. But it's also incredibly dry, so I doubt that kind of thing would work in places expected to have increases in humidity alongside heat.

[@Krell666]

Down here in Tasmania we're already seeing a huge influx of climate movers from flood prone NSW and QLD. The problem is these so-called lifeboats lack the infrastructure to support this sudden population growth.

[@rjswas]

Hello fellow Tasmanian 😄

[@jenesisjones6706]

Spot on John! Cheers from Geeveston.

[@KevinFeeney37]

Prone* Not a guarantee. Where I’m from should be completely and totally under water had what Al Gore come true! This was a sure thing back in the 70’s or 80’s. Yes our research has gotten 100% better over the years! But Al Gore said this with such conviction documents to prove he was right and look where that has gotten us. It’s a fucking scam, it all is. We’re all driving electric cars. But use (in 90%+) gas coal or oil to power them. We lose 50% of the energy transmitting the power. Not to take into account the cost to the environment making said cars. Also we can’t recycle batteries, but we can 95% of a normal car. Look at the Engery crisis we’ve gotten ourselves into, and the powers that be blame Russia or course. Nothing to do with every second or third car on the road now plugs in at home, in the office, shopping. Honestly someone work it out for me. If 100000 cars a plugged in how much energy is that taking off grid and how many homes could that power

[@Zozette27]

Another Tasmanian here

[@AmigaCammy]

My partner and I moved to Tasmania 4 years ago because of climate change, but we try to live the most environmentally responsible lifestyle we can, and believe it's important to set an example for others to follow. Considering the overwhelming support for the logging and livestock industry here, the highest rates of illiteracy and obesity in Australia, I believe people like us who are educated and aware of these problems can be of great benefit to Tasmania, which seems to be deteriorating rapidly due to the ignorance of the majority of the local population.

[@ilijavirijevic3876]

@Joe Scott Ok, i don't know if it was intentionally, or as an Easter egg, but I actually love the swapped country maps of Africa and South America at 11:25 it made me audibly laugh. Jokes aside, I'm really happy you made a video on this since I've been planning to move to Iceland if possible before it all tips over and am tired of my friends and family looking at me as if I'm a weirdo for thinking this...

[@johnbate9096]

can you just move to a different country? Wouldn't you need a work visa or something to live there?

[@coreys2686]

How much is sea level rise going to affect Iceland?

[@zdenek3010]

I was looking at it for good 10 seconds wondering whether I have a stroke or I am a complete idiot.

[@Diana1000Smiles]

@@coreys2686 ☺️ Bring a snorkel?

[@ssj3gohan456]

That was a really good one. Must have been intentional.

[@jasoncarney5886]

I live on the east side of cleveland and we are having a housing crisis and traffic infrastructure problem the past 5 yrs. House prices have trippled as has rent. It is hard to survive here if you do not own your home. Property taxes havent gone up that much so it hasnt removed the midfle class yet. Not to mention the noticeable change in winters here in the past 20yrs. Average temperature is around freezing in the winter with dips and rises. And alot of rises the past couple yrs. When as a kid i remember near 0F for a good part of winter.

[@296jacqi]

8:10 That’s the EXACT reason we left Dallas. I loved it there - Texas was good to us. But after 10 summers of my kids having to stay indoors every day, we wanted them to be able to go out and play while school was out. We said goodbye to our lovely neighbors and moved North (where I’m from). It was the right choice for us, but I’ll always miss Texas.

[@wlittle8908]

I live in Newfoundland Canada where we have very short summers and the majority of the time its about 15 to 18°C and a few 25°C if were lucky. Maybe we might become a new place to flee climate change. The winters are bitterly cold with -20 to -28°C but im not complaining. Newfoundland has always experienced harsh winters with short summers and i couldnt be more satisfied. Alot of American families have bought older homes here visiting every summer. I guess a few of them may make Newfoundland a permanent home in the coming years.

[@lawrence6622]

Also Newfoundland is a rock sticking out of the ocean. The sea levels could rise substantially before many houses are threatened.

[@Novalarke]

For those thinking "we'll move to northern Canada", the answer is (after all the laughing stops): nope. Why? The soil is thin and acidic and on top of the Canadian Shield. Muskeg is common - acidic swamps and bogs from millennia of pine forests on top of undraining shield. And we need to keep the tundra frozen - it's a huge CO2 sink, and if it melts out, all that CO2 will be released into the atmosphere, and that would be.... bad. So, moving way north is not an option.

[@brentfoster9138]

I’m afraid the window for saving the permafrost has long passed. Malaria could become a real problem.

[@digitalfootballer9032]

Just stay where you are, eat your soilent green, shut up, and keep shoveling that snow that will fall tomorrow, next year, and next century just like it always has.

[@Novalarke]

@@brentfoster9138 - I'm not so sure. I don't think it will be even or universal. Some parts will lose their permafrost quickly, others not so much. But it is a real and serious concern, for sure.

[@squirlmy]

@@brentfoster9138 Malaria is a problem now, mostly because it's not profitable for Big Pharma to address presently. If it did become a "first world problem", I think you'd be shocked how quickly it gets addressed.

[@squirlmy]

as it is, more than 3/4s of Canadians live below the 45th parallel, around the Great Lakes and Toronto. Add to that the numbers of people who actually live very close the the 45th, and one has to conclude that even vast majority of Canadians don't want to live in Northern Canada! Also, I'm afraid the tundra in Canada is small compared to Siberian tundra. As bad as it may be there, globally its much worse.

[@abruemmer77]

9:30 "It turns out: There are places outside the US!" I chuckled.

[@reinab8168]

In the last 10 years the PNW has gone from mostly wet to less rain and much hotter summers. For me, I gotta have trees where I live. It's way hotter if you dont have your trees around.

[@joedavenport934]

I live in Eastern Washington and the weather has been getting nicer... ish. We're not used to 100 degree days in summer and those have become very common. But we've also seen a lot less snow. The biggest problem at this point is all the smoke from Oregon and California burning.

[@bottledwaterprod]

I moved to Louisiana about 15 years ago, and even just in that time I've seen the heat, humidity, and weather events grow dramatically more inhospitable. Right after the first pandemic lockdowns we got hit with 2 back-to-back hurricanes, one of them breaking multiple records. Then an ice storm in a place that literally never freezes. Which ruptured pipes and took out power for thousands of homes that still had holes in them from the hurricanes. Then widespread flooding in new places, particularly urban centers that were damaged from the aforementioned storms and random freeze... All that happened 1 year. To say we're tired is an understatement. And yes many have started to leave. Cajuns!- Coming soon to a city far away from the equator!

[@SuperRavensfan101]

get out while you can tbh while the properties still have *any* value down there too honestly. Over the next few years feels like the situations are going to become more dire near southern coastlines

[@bottledwaterprod]

@SuperRavensfan101 Way ahead of you. I'm not built for this place anyway. I'm from up north and I crave the snow. Plus the pollution and humidity make it difficult to breathe here year round.

[@cytherians]

(Comment about Sponsor spot at end) Fun fact about shaving blades -- some of the multi-bladed cartridges are designed in such a way that you can actually strop them on a strip of leather (usually used for straight razors). So yeah, you can actually extend the useful life of a blades. The Henson single blade is definitely possible to strop & hone periodically, making those blades last many times longer.

[@matthewalan59]

I live in Alberta Canada. This summer and fall near Fort McMurray was the most pleasant summer and fall in the last 30 years in my memory. The viciously cold and long winters also appear to have become milder.

[@shannonwold638]

Funny you would say what you said about the Great Lakes region. One of my very best friends and her husband left Arizona on Saturday to move to Rochester, Minnesota. She left because "Minnesota will never run out of water."

[@ashleyh249]

As a Minnesotan, I can tell you that we have had drought issues the last several summers. Most cities in the metro/suburban area has limits on times and days that lawns can be watered. We had several forest fires last year because of drought and a ban on campfires. Many of the rivers and lakes I drive by have noticably low water levels as well. We aren't much better off.

[@digitalfootballer9032]

I live near lake Erie and my water bill is $50 per QUARTER. That's 3 months of water for less than what a good chunk of this country pays per month, much less. Electric is cheap here too because of hydro power from Niagara falls. Sure there are downsides to living here like digging out of 5 feet of snow on a random February morning, but financially it is cheap to survive here outside of high property tax. Housing is cheap here too.

[@GhostlyFilm]

It will if people like them keep fucking moving here. We’re NOT actually ok. We’ve had serious droughts and people keep fucking moving here thinking it’s a “safe place to live” Its not. I’ve lived here my whole damn life and watched fields of crops become fucking apartments that cannot possibly sustain a population increase that large. We don’t fucking want people moving here and putting strain on the water supply.

[@brianhirt5027]

Hey, Joe. Longtime viewer. You ask if any of us have been motivated to move? I've already done so. I saw the writing on the wall back in 2013 and relocated my family to the pacific northwest. My maternal grandfather practically raised me on stories of the dustbowl. By which I mean the actual event, not just the time period. He had to bury his dead baby sister who died from dustlung because his mother was also dying of dustlung as she gave birth, his Pa wasn't able to make it back to the ranch for over a month due to the conditions...The horses wouldn't have survived if forced to move during the storms. He lost several as it was even with them sheltering in the barns in Sante Fe. My grandpa was six at the time. Fucking six. We lost a lot of cattle that year, too. This was in rural new mexico. So, yeah. It sucked. Grampaw told me stories of the dust clouds that reached impossibly high in the sky like a moving wall of death. Walls that seemed to inch suddenly apearing on the horizon until it reached you, and then hit it you like a brick wall. blacking everything out and making it impossible to see without your eyeballs being sandblasted, couldn't breath without inhaling a bunch of sandy dirt.. He didn't have the word we do today to describe it, but they were haboobs. My family has a long memory. When I saw small back to back haboobs in 2013 I knew it was time to bug the fuck out. I convinced my wife we needed to GTFO if we meant to beat the flood of inevitably northbound climate refugees. ...Long story short, that's what we did. Now my extrended family have started to trickle after me in the past few years. Real estate here is starting to go through the roof. And the real migration push hasn't even really started yet. The next sixty years or so will become known for a number of reasons as 'the great dying". Nor will it just be confined to the wild animal population. I fully expect the human cost to eventually tally into the billions before all Iis said & done. We will survive as a species, but the world we know today will have vanished. Replaced with what I cannot say. But those who are being born today and millenials will bear witness to one of the most tectonic shifts in earth's long history. Even still, though we humans may have trigggered the severtity of the event when you step back and look at things with a long view, we're life's only shot at a ticket off this rock. At best earth's got what? Maybe half a billion years, maybe billion years tops before the magnetosphere pops or the sun starts to swell. Under either condition all life becomes impossible on this rock. It took three and a half billion years for just ONE species to arise capable of escaping, the chances of another arising in time to noah's ark this shit elsewhere is vanishingly thin. Nature will just have to cut us some slack on the heavy learning curve if she wants a ticket off this rock. Much as the hippies may scream about the enviroment, the hard reality is the clock was always ticking, whether we arose or not. The universe is not static. Life here was always going to die eventually. Only we humans provide it any slim hope it may be continued elsewhere. Cheers.

[@b1646717]

My grandpa told me stories about the dust storms in Clovis NM. They had ropes from the house to the barn and outhouse so you didn't get lost in the dust. Chickens choked to death on dust still sitting in their roosting box. Dipping pieces of cloth in water and cornmeal to seal up the windows and doors. We better get our shit in one sack if we want to survive another century.

[@russellboyd5262]

HOPE MT. RAINIER DOES NOT EXPLODE, OR A MAJOR EARTHQUAKE, BOTH ARE OVERDUE, IN THE PACIFIC NORTWEST, HUNKER DOWN DUDE, HOPE FOR THE BEST, LOL

[@rubikmonat6589]

You should get some of those stories you remember written down. I also have already moved, about 10 years ago too. I did some thinking after reading 40 Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson, in which a fictional volcano breaks up a major antarctic ice shelf suddenly. I live in a city on a coastal plain, 2 metres will ruin this place. I moved to an escarpment a few km away from a major highway and rail, not too close. Its a green area but not too forested, near some food production districts. I'm situated where I can get all necessities on foot, as long as the logistics to the stores are working. It's as good as I could do at the time and still keep my job. Since then property values have increased to about 1.4 times higher than they were, people down by the rivers are starting to get insurance refused, houses are falling into the sea from erosion. It's starting slowly. I hope it stays slow enough to prevent too much civil unrest.

[@slackumjackum]

Yeah well the 1930s was one of the hottest times in history. All around the world. Far hotter than it is today.

[@melissapinkard3278]

Same. My father lived through the Great Depression (he was already in his late 50's when I was born), and it was impressed upon me that where you live was really important for security. I moved to Australia in 2015 and never looked back.

[@AFraccica]

Buffalo, NY here, loved grtting a shoutout for my home town in the video. Right now as we transition to Autumn, Western New York is absolutely gorgeous and the weather cant be any better. 70-80° during the day, gets down to 50° at night. Relatively dry. And the keaves on the trees are changing colors. Summers can get hot and humid and winters are susceptible to lake effect snow storms. Spring is gettinh shorter here where winter sort of skips over it to summer. The city itself is pretty poor but had a ton of land to build houses kn, especially the east side. Existing houses for sale are few and far between and expensive. Rent is high as well. Employment is tough, too. However, the people here are warm and welcoming, akin to a midwestern town. We have good food and Niagara Falls is 20 mins away, Canada is nearby, and tons of outdoor activities.

[@HMohr]

I would love to have a video like this for the entire planet

[@joelcorley3478]

I moved from Dallas (Plano, actually) to Seattle 10 years ago for a job. I retired last year and moved to Port Angeles, WA. The climate in Dallas sucks by comparison. It doesn't freeze very often here, and a heatwave is when the highs are in the upper 80s. It's a bucolic, semi-rural area and many things already grow year-round here if you irrigate during the dry season. I'm also near the ocean, but nearly 100 feet above sea level. The one downside to this area is the forest fires. Port Angeles doesn't experience a lot of forest fires here, exactly. But for some reason whenever there are huge fires in California, Oregon, British Columbia or even mainland Washington, we get blanketed by the smoke. Some weeks in the summer you have to stay indoors just to avoid the smoke and haze. But I firmly believe you don't know how bad things are where you live until you move some place with a much nicer environment. No way am I moving back to Texas.

[@Diana1000Smiles]

I love the Pacific Northwest, too. And, dread the Wildfires all over the west. We had some rain in the Valley last night, I wept with happiness. ✌ It certainly smells better this morning.

[@utubecustomer0099805]

Joel, we've been trying to keep this place a secret even to fellow Washingtonians and here you go blabbing it to the world! Mum's the word, man!

[@newscoulomb3705]

It was great meeting you at Fully Charged, Joe! I'm figuring a cold 12-pack of Natty Light and a swamp cooler will get me through the worst of this climate change thing. It'll blow over in a few millennia.

[@BEMEiTY]

Moved to Dallas over two years ago, these are the questions I was asking myself to, like you live here and sweat and do laundry all the time, then you just don't go outside because its like walking into a blowdryer, then it's freezing. My lease it up in two months, I have decided to leave it is unfortunate as if it wasnt for the extreme heat, I would really like this city and the area that I live in in UpTown.

[@urbanfrog8466]

Greetings from New Zealand. Yup, we are already seeing the effects of climate change and global instability here - namely the silent invasion of rich Americans buying up swathes of farmland to build their mega-houses and bunkers. Really enjoying your channel, lots of fascinating stuff here 🙂 Cheers.

[@DownwithEA1]

Currently living in the great lakes region above one of the largest aquifers in the nation. We also have some of the lowest cost of living. I wonder how quickly that will change.

[@joshuaneilson]

I feel really lucky to live where I live 🇨🇦 some of us don’t appreciate it as much as we should, there’s much worse places in the world to live, and much less fortunate but I never forget it!

[@Diana1000Smiles]

What part of Canada?

[@TimothyCHenderson]

Same!

[@joshuaneilson]

@@Diana1000Smiles Calgary area ❤️

[@digitalfootballer9032]

Alberta is probably one of the best places there is remaing. If you guys ever end up sticking it to Turdeau and the left and break away I'll be moving there. The United States is all but ruined.

[@joshuaneilson]

@@digitalfootballer9032 we’re doing our best to get that goof outta there! You’re welcome to come anytime 🙂

[@Graybeard_]

North Central WA used to have brutal winters and cool summers at the higher elevations, and still can, just not as frequently, and they are diminishing over time. Another 50 years, and it will be the new California with mild winters and hot summers.

[@mizdrmcdoogles3858]

thankfully i have a vacation home up on the lakes but the water levels have been crazy the past few years even some homes are about to fall in the water.. we lost most of the front lawn due to the huge waves so its a nice place in the summer but when the November storms come around you have to really pack everything down and be ready to lose some decks and land.

[@brightmal]

Tasmania is much like NZ in this regard. I'm glad to be living here these days since I'm not back in NZ anymore.

[@lorriewatson7423]

I live in the Great lakes region, aka rust belt. After years of population decline, I was really hoping this area being least affected would be a well kept secret.

[@BronzeDragon133]

Yeah, me too. I lost all my boreal plants years ago, replaced them with temperate spring plants, and have been happily chugging along in the secure knowledge that we've been doing just fine here. Alas, now the invasion will start and I'll need to secure my land against the 'federates wantin' to take it.

[@krashpass]

Living in NE Ohio, it's socially and economically dead, but quiet, and cheap. Being old farts, the wife and I will probably be dead by the time the real crap flies :o) But hey, it was a great ride....

[@wavemaker54]

Here comes a country full of new neighbors. Better start buying some property. Good luck. I probably won’t be around by that time. I hope.

[@isalim7]

Thank you for this clear, research-based, funny narrative. Will be using it for a high school science project assignment. Currently live in central CA and constantly think about moving north with retirement in 4 years.

[@icitlalistardust9060]

You might want to skip the part where the countries of South America and Africa are inverted…

[@DanCooper404]

My wife and I own 10 acres of secluded, partially-wooded land between two rivers in Upstate New York. A third river with a large reservoir lies just 10 minutes away, and Lake Ontario is half an hour away. Lake Oneida is 45 minutes away. There are numerous ponds, creeks, and rivers scattered all around the area. We're going to build a cabin in a meadow surrounded by tall, mature pines and maple trees. Solar panels will give us enough electricity to be comfortable, and we can cut firewood to heat the cabin. We also have birch, wild cherry, beech, and wild apple trees. Game and fish are abundant, and we have plenty of space to plant gardens if we want. Our land lies between 2 small towns where provisions are plentiful. People talk smack about New York, but it sounds pretty perfect to me, being a Northern state on 2 of the Great Lakes with an abundance of natural resources. 😃

[@elha7982]

When it comes to cities a lot of things can be done by good city planning though. E.g less concrete, more green or even giant shadow curtains as sometimes seen in Spain

[@Diana1000Smiles]

Humans will not survive Climate Change period. I wish it was different, but facts are facts. ✌ Enjoy each day as long as the Water flows and the grass grows. ♡

[@DrNothing23]

...and drainage, drainage, drainage!

[@cherrydragon3120]

@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket ah just like how in Rain some people are like sugar

[@waxhero8878]

My husband and I moved from Austria to Ireland in 2019 and our reason was indeed climate change. To be honest, we didn't think the sh. Would hit the fan this quick... Happy in Ireland though, it's a good and easy life here. Greetings 💚

[@id9139]

Where in Ireland are you? What are pros & cons of Ireland?

[@noraleestone2859]

I was born, raised, and still live in the proverbial Garden of Eden: southwestern Ontario, Canada. I am now 70 years old, so I don't expect to have to deal with the insanity of mass migration to the Great Lakes region. I've never had much of a carbon footprint, and it decreases with every year I remain alive. But I'm just one person, so my efforts are negligible. I don't want to experience the tipping point of climate change. It will be brutal, and I've already had sufficient brutality in my life, thank you. The things that people carry on about today I just don't understand. What is more important than Life? Because that's what you are talking about, Joe - unless I'm very much mistaken.

[@kataseiko]

I like how some of those climate change deniers are often saying "even the scientists are not agreeing on their climate change models" - I love to show them one of those graphs that show these "disagreeing" models stacked over each other. Yes, they disagree in details but the result is a thick, fat line that says "it's getting warmer".

[@rainsticklandguitartalk9483]

My husband and I live in southern Ontario, right in the midst of the Great Lakes. We're pretty happy to be where we are. We've been considering a houseboat, too, just to make sure we have the option to go where we like on the lakes. We're currently full-time RVers, and we're in the process of taking our RV off-grid, using solar, turbines, etc. We're also planning to get a water generator so we'll never have to worry about drought again. We'll be replacing the toilet with an incinerator version that removes the need for dumping sewage. We're replacing all the propane crap in the trailer, too. We decided we wanted to be fully mobile, so we're ready for whatever happens. Interestingly, I wrote a trilogy about this exact topic. Which came after about twelve years of research after the 2003 northeastern blackout. The first book is called Tipping Point, followed by Ground Zero, and then Salvage Rights. There's a romance story in the first book, too, so people complained about that. Weird, but whatever. I spent years looking for ways to save my own ass, and that of my daughter, in the future hellscape we're going to see. Never planned to write about that topic, or get into PA sci-fi, but that's where I landed.

[@yaellramirez69]

Love these kinds of videos! Less jargon/technical and has so much practical information. Thanks Joe for all your hard work!

[@Greg-yu4ij]

What good is practical information if it’s being used to manipulate people? When the government says crop yields will drop by 20%, what they are saying is that they will ban the use of fertilizer so that way their prediction is true. Europe banned fertilizer and cows, even though the world lost 20% of grain provided by Ukraine. Somehow 10,000 cows will die in a fire. 10000! Millions of chickens will be killed. Food processing plants will mysteriously catch fire. However, I’m not talking about predictions, all of this has already happened! Joe claims that crop yields are going to fall by 20% or 30%, and Joes saying what we expect to hear. If you listen to the end, in a soulless voice, Joe says on the bright side these *crises can lead to positive change*. WAKE UP. Decide if you want the reality, Joe is describing. Because if you want a better reality, all you need to do is let go your fears, and let go your hate, and love your neighbor as yourself.

[@williamedstrom5681]

I've looked at Buffalo and other Rust Belt cities, but the blizzards are a lot, especially considering that I want to car carless or at least car-light. That said, the next big risk likely to actually force my hand would be an insurance catastrophe here in OR similar to FL or CA.

[@dennymoe8010]

Me and my family live in southeast Michigan in Allen Park and i agree with you 💯. Love it here very lucky.

[@ZyroZoro]

I've thought about this a lot the last couple years. I've been seriously looking at moving to the Buffalo, NY area or Canada. My biggest concern is water supply and wars over water.

[@SputnikCrisis]

I’m with you, in general the eastern USA is getting more precipitation as the climate warms. However, this can be complicated if areas don’t have good water infrastructure such as Jackson, Mississippi recently.

[@fishtail.productions]

Hmm. I join the "thousands of trolls and bots" with a comment that I actually put some thought into. I hope this cultural change will bring people together against a common foe, however, it it happens too gradually I fear tribalism will only increase especially in the United States.

[@ashj_2088]

This is the top comment bro😋🍻

[@danieladmassu941]

So you would rather extreme climate events happen more frequently in order to unite people? Remember that part of the reason folks reject the climate change proposition is the extreme, predictions the climate change zealots make, such as 'We will all be dead in 12 years' kind of talk. There is huge money in climate alarmism. Climate changes. Part of the story is cyclic-geological. Part of it should also be man-made. We need sober, long term scientific studies to get to the real picture.

[@AmeriMutt76]

Unfortunately, there's no common foe to unite against here. I say it's corporate/personal greed and all the materialism built into that nut. Someone else will disagree and say it's faithlessness in some sky god cult. Fights will ensue. And that's just pointing out fault, way before getting to the "unity" part.

[@MoCsomeone]

Well, right wingers live their lives in abject terror of just about everyone and everything. Think they are afraid of immigrants now? Just wait...

[@ryandavis4448]

So...climate change will make the price of beef go up?? 😆 because inflation hasn't done that at ALL over the last 2 years??

[@rastiga9196]

Lived in AZ all my life, love the heat. It is annoying sometimes and deadly if you are not aware of the dangers just like snow. I used to have a cabin on the Mogollon Rim where it was 10 to 15 degrees cooler.

[@TheIdiotsAreTakingOver]

Thank you for finally giving me a reason to be happy I live in Cleveland Ohio

[@buckdrew131]

I completely understand what you mean when you mentioned talking with your family about potentially moving to cooler climates. We're right next door to you in Irving, TX and this summer was absolutely BRUTAL. We've actually thought about Alaska. Great video, Joe!

[@krashpass]

Conneaut, OH It's an economic dead zone, but that will change fast with all the You Tubers moving in, it's also right on lake Erie :o) Nice beaches, rivers and parks, where things grow naturally lol. Did I mention houses for under 50 K :o)

[@theillusionofjustice1250]

I’m surprised you put the UK in the list of “lifeboat countries”: they haven’t produced enough food to feed themselves for centuries and with the trade restrictions they voted to put on themselves, getting fresh food is getting tougher. Not the most ideal of lifeboats.

[@RB01138]

They could grow significantly more, they just use a lot of it feeding livestock.

[@Erin-Thor]

Food shortages, the projections of ‘possible’ issues as people from lower ground flee to higher ground are grim. We can expect services to fail, be allotted or prices raised to insane levels. Think about that… most major cities with failing sewer, water, electrical and transportation issues which daisy chain into even more issues.

[@FrankWinchester]

@@RB01138 it's the same in New Zealand. We grow 10 times more food than we consume. But that's only in the current market conditions. If we stopped dairy farming, we'd be able to triple that. Which we would, in that situation

[@lukelustigbruce]

What is the EU's common external tariff if not a trade restriction to protect European markets from foreign competition?

[@FrankWinchester]

@@lukelustigbruce very very few developed countries have no protectionist tariffs

[@21jimmyo]

20 years ago, our winters in the Hudson Valley NY were brutal. In most winters there was snow on the ground from Nov to Apr. Now we don't get that much snow and single-digit temps are rare. The problem here is that we have had more severe storms and we even had a tornado. It kills me how many people refuse to accept reality and choose to ignore scientific evidence and all information including changes in the climate over their lifetime where they live.

[@desirefama5964]

With my home country being mainly already below sea level, once fit hits the shan my country will virtually disappear below the North Sea. Germany will *finally* get their wish 😂 (sorry my neighbors, I know I know!). Right now though I live in the Great Lakes area, so I should be fine. I’ve only been here for 6 years but I’ve noticed changes in the weather patterns. Spring seems to arrive later each year. This year we didn’t have any green on trees or bushes until late May, and didn’t get blooms until well into June. Migratory birds were really struggling and I had to put feed out to give Nature a hand as their natural food sources simply weren’t around yet, and wouldn’t be for months. Honestly, it really messed with my brain not seeing any leaves on the trees or bushes for so long. It very much gave me “wheel of time book 1” vibes with the winter that just won’t let up. Spring only seemed to last about a month and a half before summer kicked our behinds and we went from 80° weather to snow overnight. Now, anyone can say that’s not climate change or whatever, but that is NOT normal! At all. Anywhere. Ever. Also, need I remind people of the -60° week we had in Chicago? Because that was insanity. My family back in Europe called me to ask if it was really that cold. I had to tell them that yup. Very real. My building where I lived (which is pet friendly) had even set up a temporary dog relieving area inside the garage so we didn’t have to go outside with our dogs, as that simply was too dangerous and cold. Now, I can handle cold, don’t get me wrong. But I spent 5 minutes outside in that (don’t come after me, I needed some stuff from the corner store to get through the rest of that week), and I was bundled up like I was the freaking Michelin Man about to climb Mount Everest, and within the first breath of air, my nose hairs froze. And I mean they froze. And my head was inside a balaclava AND a woolen scarf. And my nose hairs still froze. So did the hair on my head, which wasn’t even damp to begin with. Just those 5 minutes outside caused me to have the beginnings of frost bite (2.5 minutes if that to the store, and back, so not even 5 minutes each way fyi). No one can tell me that is normal. Or that I should have expected that. Because I’m sorry, last I checked I didn’t move to the north or South Pole, and I didn’t (much to my chagrin) peak Mount Everest. Hell, those places aren’t even that cold. So yeah… weirdness in weather abounds even here.

[@ramblinjack294]

Welcome to the Continental Climate region. If you don’t like the weather today, just wait til tomorrow.

[@nunya___]

Don't panic guys. According to Joe we'll probably be dead of something else before any of this happens. :)

[@CrossWindsPat]

Probably but jokes aside we gotta so what we can for our kids and theirs.

[@princessbuttercup8954]

I'm in South Alabama and we had rain for 60+ days straight this summer. The same thing happened a couple years ago right before Hurricane Sally. It rained for like 20+ days then the hurricane came through and we lost like 30% of tree coverage in our area. The ground was too wet to hold the trees anymore. We had 10 trees in our yard we now have 3. It's the same all around here. We've lost a lot of our natural shade.

[@krispalermo8133]

In about 15 to 20 years from now when I turn about 60yo, if my father lives that long .. I am planning to move to north or mid Alabama. Cold air messes with my lungs, humidity helps with my arthritis and since I'm an old country boy I will be more than happy not to touch a computer ever again and just do some small scale farming and good enough credit rating to get a few dozen acres of land for some younger folk to learn off of and take over when I'm gone. Leave something for the next few generations. Far enough from the coastline so I don't have to leave during Gulf storms or worry about sea level raising and not too far north to worry about snow/glacier development. I don't regard myself as a conspiracy nut, but a few dozen E.M.P. during an extreme cold winter snap with heavy snow fall not seen since the 1970's and its mass depopulation. Pass ten years north Texas has been hit with some heavy out of the blue blizzards and if the computers that controls cities electricity and gas feed goes down, it is all over. I just like to stack up some stones and know they will remain standing there for the next few thousand years. Hope you had a good weekend, and G*D bless.

[@bigbcor]

The next few generations? In one generation most if not all of Alabama will be unsustainable…

[@gingerbreadpop7068]

I’m a North Alabamian and I’m legitimately worried about worsening storms. I feel that the Tennessee valley will become flooded and mostly uninhabitable within the next few decades.

[@averycockburn31]

Thanks for this video. I'm increasingly baffled at the southward migration in the US. But taxes tend to be lower there, which draws businesses, which draws workers. Interesting to hear about the beautiful states of Colorado and Wyoming having a bit of a buffer due to elevation. I figured those two very dry places would get drier, but it seems to be more complicated than that.

[@twocyclediesel1280]

It’s really not baffling. Cost of living, employment, and yes...taxes. Family in upstate NY pay insane property taxes compared to us in SE. Every year, more ppl leave which raises taxes for those remaining so the exodus continues.

[@panemetcircenses6299]

There are also plenty of Economic factors that move along regardless of Climate Change (presently). Labor forces. New Innovation hotspots. Ocean Ports are huge (Texas). And perhaps the biggest is Standard of Living (modern suburban vs. city or industrial decay) and non-extreme politics. Bottom line. People move for the Now. Not the 2 or 3 decades from now.

[@User31129]

But there's also low taxes in Vermont, Delaware, and Washington State and you don't see their populations exploding. We're still in a mindset of warmer is better. Maybe it won't be that way in 25 years.

[@RS-ls7mm]

Last winter I had heating bills that were 4 times normal. Natural gas has become a scam run by the government. That's why a lot of people moved.

[@2miletony]

The thing with CO and WY is that mountains will always have a way of squeezing out water from the atmosphere. Realistically, WY and CO will always have enough water for themselves, but with the Colorado River Basin being managed as a single system, we will have to cut back. If it comes to the worst, the lower basin states will sue (fight) for water but CO/WY will win due to proximity.

[@tristanridley1601]

I've been thinking about moving internationally for most of my life. I stuck around because I live in one of the best 'survive global warming comfortably' locations in the Great Lakes, just above max possible sea level. Wish I could afford a house here!

[@BelgianBillie]

Its odd to say Ireland is in a good spot because it only has 2% agriculture. At face value that means they can continue to provide their services. On the other hand, it also means that they are reliant on the world for their food...

[@Firefoxfifty]

Ireland produces enough food (meat and dairy mostly) to feed 35 Million people. That's 7 times the population!!

[@briangarrow448]

I worked at a small city on the Washington state Pacific Ocean coastline. I was a wastewater treatment plant operator and also maintained the stormwater and flood control pumps. I am glad to be retired today. The problems are only going to get more extreme.

[@trevorgardner2647]

Glad you retired, but I'm sure the industry is hurting for people.

[@briangarrow448]

@@trevorgardner2647 I have been recommending water and wastewater treatment operations careers for years. The pay is decent with good benefits and the opportunities for advancement and paid training are incredible.

[@trevorgardner2647]

@@briangarrow448 Yeah, a lot of hands on work is getting ignored by people my age. I got into CNC, and the company paid me while they taught me a free 600 hour course. Ive been outta work for awhile, been sick. But when I get back to work their starting people with basic set up skills like 20-25 dollars an hour

[@tomhenderson2430]

I do believe that is the first time you have made it all the way through one of your videos without playing your obnoxious background bass music. Thank you very much I thoroughly enjoyed this one

[@sydnidowney3598]

A few years ago SOUTH MIAMI spent $50M (or was it $50B?) to RAISE THEIR STREETS because of flooding. Those streets are flooding again.

[@DouwedeJong]

In the seventies, my dad and his friends discussed where will be the safest place to live in case of a nuclear war. They chose the Falkland island.

[@dbhoy]

I feel the hidden story in this post is lost on many.

[@MrHerodoto]

It would be a nice choice it there's was a water source there but there's none so... No.

[@hdmat101]

Las Malvinas son argentinas

[@MrHerodoto]

Just a point here: Britain is the owner of the Falklands for as much time as it exists as a part of the Western world.

[@hdmat101]

@@MrHerodoto no

[@yohann2768]

Moved to Québec 4 year ago. Climate was not the bigest motive then, but after this summer I know that I will stay. It was hell summer in my home country, drougths, month-long heatwave, violent stroms... It feels safer here, Québec is built for hard climate.

[@matwinner9708]

Effectivement

[@thomasbarlow4223]

It sure is nice except for the fact that they're making gas fireplaces illegal you're also not allowed to burn wood to stay warm and they're poisoning the rivers seems like everywhere is fuked

[@TheValleygirl1981]

I guess I should consider myself lucky to live on the shore of Lake Ontario. On the Canadian side. First time in my life I've been glad to be still living in my hometown 😊

[@alanmitchell584]

I recently visited a park in the FL neighborhood I grew up in. The entire park is only inches above the intercoastal waterway that it sits on. After 50 years, it looks exactly the same. The ocean has not affected it at all.

[@jeffdillon1972]

One of the problems with the farmland moving north to Canada is the soil - or lack of it. The last glaciation scraped a lot of topsoil off the Canadian shield and dumped it in the US great plains and midwest. Last I checked, hot air doesn't move dirt the way cold glaciers do.

[@pandemik0]

This also applies to Scandinavia,Russia/Siberia. The crop growing climate will shift from where the good soils are to where there isn’t. Would take a century to improve soils closer to the poles. Can’t grow whole categories of crops too close to Arctic circle and certainly not above - lack of sunlight in winter.

[@jamie299]

On top of that, a lot of our current farmland in Ontario is being sold for housing developments. And southern Ontario soils are some of the most fertile in all of Canada. We're not going to have much of it left by the time we really start to feel the effects of climate change.

[@erich930]

Joe, all I can say is thank you for being so real in this video. I hate how everyone always seems to think climate change is either not a problem or the literal end of the world. You offer a tiny sip on honesty in a desert of the sands of lies and distrust. The world would be such a better place with more Joe Scotts in it!

[@CodeGrayHere]

I'm from Arizona too, and while it's true that there are months in a row that you can't go outside in the summer, the same can be said of the winter in northerly climates. Still looking for the perfect spot. Thanks for the help with that.

[@djdhdbsocal95]

Nah we can go outside just need coats and boots. Hats. Then you can ride the bus and go sledding, skate.

[@Off_the_clock_astrophysicist]

I second @djdhdbsocal95. I've done both. There is a big difference between stepping out in July in Austin, Texas, versus stepping out in January in Iowa. In the former situation, there is a real feeling of looming death if shelter is not found soon, while walking sluggishly drenched in sweat. In the latter, there is nothing a good pair of boots and an artful face wrap can't solve.

[@icyone]

I live a couple km north of lake erie, and the lake winds have kept most of the wild fire smoke away. some days i can see where our bubble ends by the cloud formations.