The Best Places To Live To Survive Climate Change

[@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

[@dstinnettmusic]

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]

@@dstinnettmusic 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 🤔😠😡

[@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.

[@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".

[@HoboGardenerBen]

I wish the focus had been on stuff that can sensed directly, like spreading deserts, garbage, forests being cut down. Stuff that dpesn't require trust, because that is something many are not willing to give. I think the focus on climate change was an intentional deception by govts and corps. Not in it being false, but in choosing something that can be denied at all. You can't deny a pile of garbage or a forest that was there but now isn't. Drying lakes and melting arctic ice is one of the few climate changes that can directly sensed. Most of it is complex data analysis, much easier to deny.

[@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.

[@chrissnyder8108]

You are right, or they swapped the outlines of the continents, since we are used to seeing S. America on the left, and only the internal country borders on the left are from S.America, and they have the S. American continent outline on right. WTF! You passed the cognition test, and the author of the video didn't catch it!

[@torr3smariano]

I was about to post the same thing, i wonder if he did that on purpose fro trolling

[@dechevers]

That was such a big mistake that for a moment I thought maybe it was on purpose

[@tempeztfox]

It was most definitely on purpose. I knew what was going on right away and my geographically inclined ass verbally cried out "Noo! 😭" I mean, you don't just search "Africa and S. America political outline" and get misleading things like those

[@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?

[@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.

[@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.

[@Acccountable]

No one deniend COVID's existance but most with brains denied it was from nature. Gain of Function, go look it up.

[@robbie_]

You need to stop wetting your knickers about things that aren't happening.

[@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...

[@Fearsomehero]

I love Duluth! Can't imagine how much the cost of living has increased tho.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.OgataSerizawa]

@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.

[@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.

[@alexg1153]

Great Lakes cities & real estate are definitely undervalued.

[@mybestideas1]

Not in Canada.

[@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.

[@tammyd.970]

As a Pennsylvanian, I can say you made the right choice. Lol. Now just make sure you vote for the kinds of people that think climate change is a real issue.... 😊

[@Off_the_clock_astrophysicist]

@@tammyd.970 Doing my best!

[@theresabu3000]

I'm from Germany and we're feeling the change too. But most are lucky, because we live in brick houses - that are insulated really well. Double glazed windows and shade for that makes it possible to stay relatively cool (25°C while outside is 30°) - and air the heat out in the night. Europeans generally don't like air conditioning - we only have it in shops (food and clothing). So if you have the option or are building new - definitely something to invest in. Ventilators can also work. AC are big contributor to climate change particularly in cities - they needlessly cool down inside /heat up the outside and use a lot of energy.

[@Off_the_clock_astrophysicist]

@@theresabu3000 I grew up in France in a 400 year old farm house with thick stone walls. Lots of trees in the yard. We were in the foothills of the alps so summers were mild and nights always cold. We had wood shutters on our windows for extra insulation, winter and summer. Part of why i like where I live now is that I can use all the in home climate regulating methods i learned growing up. In much of the Southern US, those methods fail because it is simply too hot during the day and the nights stay quite warm. One can limit the use of AC, but not entirely eliminate it.

[@tammyd.970]

Yeah, great if you can afford living in a house.... Most of us don't get to choose. Worth mentioning that even Pennsylvania is much, much warmer than Germany, and I think even colder. We don't need to state the obvious about Texas. Brick is incredibly great and many older buildings in PA are brick. Most of us, however are locked into whatever we can get and afford in terms of apartment buildings, and even houses.

[@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.

[@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

[@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 (

[@FinehomesofNewHampshire]

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

[@Jo3M]

I live in NZ and I worry about countries with power and bad climates coming here with bad intentions. It's going to be an eventful century for sure

[@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

[@FinehomesofNewHampshire]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.😊

[@Skeptic78]

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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@gthomasfinn]

Joe, to answer your question specifically... my family and I moved from the SF Bay Area to the Hudson Valley last summer specifically for climate change (something most of our friends still find hard to believe). The triggering event was the third year in a row of terrible wildfires, where smoke blanketed much of the area. One day we woke up to an apocalyptic orange-that was the year every National Forest in CA got shut down.

[@twocyclediesel1280]

I’m from the Hudson Valley area and moved to the southeast 30+ yrs ago so I guess we’re screwed 😆 I love it here tho.

[@bwfchamp7]

I’m currently in the Hudson Valley and have grown up here. I’ve been wanting to move for a long time, I’m planning to next year but I’m honestly not sure if I should, especially after watching this video, if I stay here I’m definitely moving to Kingston as I feel that’s the best of both worlds, big enough to be a city but small enough that I’m not so closed in

[@twocyclediesel1280]

@@bwfchamp7 There’s a huge reduction in cost of living in NC. I’m in the east but I wonder how the NC mountains would fare with regard to climate change? Might not be too bad at the higher elevations.

[@Greg-yu4ij]

I’m in the Hudson Valley, and it’s beautiful here. Only problem is my property taxes tripled. I used to take global warming as fact because I believed the scientists. However, once Al Gore politicized it, people started growing skeptical. They found out that there was all this money in trading carbon credits. Al Gore came right out and said he was making money on it and I thought OK yeah that makes sense. However, once they started silencing, the dissenting scientist I became a skeptic overnight. You know who is in power because those are the ones that you get in trouble for criticizing. Honestly, I don’t believe much information that comes out of the government and I certainly don’t believe scientists. By 2020 half the costal cities were supposed to be underwater. So why are politicians still buying beach front property? How fast is sea level rising? Is it one foot per year? Is it one inch per year? Is it 1 cm per year? No. It’s 3 mm per year. It will take 100 years to rise 1 foot. So all those fancy pictures of cities, underwater, anyone reading this will be long dead before (and if) any of that happens.

[@ErlonJris]

“Moving is not cheap. The ability to do it is kind of a privilege” - such a good statement. Something that critics of illegal immigration do not understand. If those people had the privilege of immigrating legally, they would have done so.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@ciannenewborn564]

Get a grip NZ is in fault line, when the Chch earthquake hit people were buried for days, some didn't make it, the earth liquified, buildings fell down, another mega quake is due any time...😮

[@heatherwells3677]

So true

[@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.

[@100percentSNAFU]

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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@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!

[@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.

[@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!

[@mcchristenson]

I like how he says move to the great lakes area and then says he wouldn't want to live somewhere you can't go outside for 3 months. Have you been up north?

[@GhostlyFilm]

RIGHT. People don’t realize winter exists here and these people who move here have no fuckin idea how cold it gets

[@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 ❤️

[@100percentSNAFU]

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]

@@100percentSNAFU we’re doing our best to get that goof outta there! You’re welcome to come anytime 🙂

[@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??

[@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.

[@100percentSNAFU]

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.

[@chrissnyder8108]

The Great Lakes are drying up too; it is just happening slower than elsewhere in the USA. But we need to stop letting people waste it; so many frackers are polluting ground water and industries are allowed to bottle it and ship it away for massive profits, without having to give back to the Great Lakes ecology.

[@dianamayfield5615]

I am moving to Ecuador to the Andes. Right now the ultimate climate is found at around 5000 ft (year round average temp is about 70 degrees, with a 365 growing season). I'll be buying property at perhaps 6000. A little cooler but as things warm up, I would think it will get better in coming years... Besides the people are lovely and they are on the US dollar. Cost of living about 1/3 of the US. No negatives that I have found. Oh, one must learn Spanish...

[@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?

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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!!

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@NoName-ds5uq]

What worries me most is the potential for the melting of Greenland’s ice shelf to stop the Gulf Stream, causing a catastrophic freeze in Northern Europe. This would have consequences worldwide with currents being disrupted. I don’t know if we can foresee the results this could have.

[@HankLongonline]

It going to happen, half stream might slow down but will not stop, this myth is debuked. I thought Joe did a item about it.

[@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.

[@prettyvacant1977]

I live in Canada and for many many reasons, I have been leaning toward moving to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, or the Netherlands for the last few years. Climate change and political reasons are my biggest push. The province I live in is on fire for about 3 months out of the year and our government doesn't give one single care about it's residents/citizens. I dream of living somewhere outside of the profit driven North American mindset. I think the Nordic countries are as close as I'm going to get.

[@fifski]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the entire world is focused on profit making. Its called capitalism. Even if you move to some kind of cultist yoga retreat in the middle of nowhere, they will also jave to earn money somehow to maintain the place. Best way is to take care of one's own self sufficiency. And for that, I will be moving to Canada soon. There are plenty of great places in Canada that will be much better in terms of surviving the decades to come. And as per the nordics, they're fu***ed up because their governments dont care about their citizens and invite with welcoming hands thousands of 'refugees' which are mostly of course the best people from those countries. Crime, safety and overall happiness of people in the nordics is not so great.

[@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

[@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)

[@mojoneko8303]

After 50 years of living in Alaska my wife and I moved to the "lower 48" six years ago. We took all the points you made in this video into consideration plus a few others when deciding where to move to. It has worked out very well. The weather is mild, the area has good precipitation and an excellent aquifer with rivers, lakes, streams and mountains in the area. We found a nice house on a half acre in a quiet neighborhood on a cul-de-sac at the end of a dead end road before real estate values went nuts. Not saying where it's at as a lot of people are moving to this area already.. 🙂 For an armageddon class refuge I tried to talk my wife into buying another sailboat and heading to Pitcairn Island (read Mutiny on the Bounty) in the South Pacific Ocean but she wasn't interested.. 🙂 Thanks for the video.

[@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.

[@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

[@Namari12]

I grew up in Texas and knew in the 2000s that it wasn't going to be a good long-term option. I moved to one of the 'safer' places you mentioned in 2017. It was not the only reason we moved there, but it was definitely on the list of reasons. So yeah, already did it. If you think you should go, the time to go is now, it's not going to get better

[@henrythegreatamerican8136]

Kinda sad how most of the states at risk for the worst of climate change are generally republican run: Texas, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Good to know I'm living in Pennsylvania which is one of the safest states from climate change. And we got our 3 bedroom 2 bathroom home built in 2020 relatively cheap!!!

[@daltonbedore8396]

@@henrythegreatamerican8136 being republican run or democrat run doesnt matter- policy-wise they are almost identical because they have almost identical donors.

[@bigbcor]

@@daltonbedore8396 i think he meant it in terms of the ones who consistently vote against mitigating climate change…

[@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.

[@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.

[@RRW359]

I live in Portland which has been going downhill for a couple reasons including climate change, basically everyone has a long-term plan to move out. I'm planning on making my way north to Bellingham and *crosses fingers* maybe even southern BC/Vancouver Island if I can ever get to a position where I can immigrate. It isn't too much of a difference but the more coastal climate makes stuff milder and being more north makes stuff heat up SLIGHTLY slower.

[@denise7001]

Oh my. We’re moving to Portland metro (Beaverton) to get away from climate here in California desert. It’s the only West Coast city we can afford to buy a house that isn’t ridiculously overpopulated like SF, LA and Seattle. When house hunting a couple weeks ago I was taken aback at how many new housing developments were going up. Never saw anything like it living in SF Bay Area or Palm Springs. Seems like Portland area is booming.

[@RRW359]

@@denise7001 Some of my family members want to move to LA even though I keep telling them it's a bad idea. Just be warned that this summer we actually had higher temperatures, although I'm unsure if that accounts for things like asphalt that raises it since LA is a lot more car-focused.

[@denise7001]

@@RRW359 I would never live in LA. Spend half my waking life sitting in traffic? No way. It was bad enough living in SF Bay Area before we moved to Palm Springs. Look forward to cloudy skies and some semblance of changing seasons.

[@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.

[@nescop13]

We always want to end discussions about climate change with some kind of positivity. Why not accept, that it is probably going to end very badly for most, if not all of us. This reminds me of the 5 stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance

[@mirthenemrys]

Too many people/places are still in the denial phase unfortunately. I think most of the world is in the bargaining or depression phases now, moving slowly to acceptance. Just drove past a giant LED billboard the other day in a very rural part of SW Pennsylvania that simply said "The biggest lie is that climate change is man made"... i just sighed and continued to drive...

[@squirlmy]

actually dying interrupts the five stages! lol

[@nescop13]

@@mirthenemrys "The biggest lie is that climate change is man made" Should i laugh or cry about this? 😅🙃

[@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.

[@somethingelse4878]

Ive been watching Joe for a long time and have to say his presentation is about perfect now

[@Diana1000Smiles]

Are you joking? He thinks some areas of Earth will protect Humans from Climate Change. That's ludicrous.

[@jabrokneetoeknee6448]

@@Diana1000Smiles Earth isn't going to turn into Venus, dude. Human beings are going to survive climate change. The challenge is in mitigating the mass suffering and loss of life, while also reducing carbon emissions.

[@bigbcor]

@@Diana1000Smiles he never said some areas will protect humans. In fact he said the opposite. The entire episode was about the premise of how each different area will be effected. He pointed out areas that which are currently not inhabited will be more viable in the coming decades….

[@krashpass]

Agree, wouldn't mind him as a neighbor :o)

[@flyjet787]

Joseph! One of your best yet! We never tire of your mix of humor and teaching. Our country of scientific illiterates continues to need channels like yours. Kudos to you and your team. BTW, I left Southern Arizona last year for the Northern Midwest as a climate migrator. My biggest near-term concern was that soon folks will be forced to see the reality of even hotter desert conditions and water scarcity, and therefore cause my property value plummet. That would likely have left me stranded in the desert Southwest.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@justinaclayburn2248]

As someone who grew up in the Great Lakes region, we’re not completely unimpactes. Water levels on the Great Lakes have been incredibly high the past few years, and lakeside homes have also been pretty heavily hit by erosion issues.

[@Diana1000Smiles]

I remember watching houses falling into Lake Michigan (Beverly Shores, IN) decades ago. Now, it's a National Lake Shore Park. Very beautiful around there.

[@benbrown8258]

MSU predicted the area will see decades of flucuating rain increases, but longer term actually drought will become progressively a serious problem depending how much we cut our CO2. I, not MSU, would guess if we wait to make any changes we will lose Lake Erie and repeat the dangers they are experiencing from the Great Salt Lake. That likely won't be our only problem though...

[@squirlmy]

yeah, I thought I escaped sea level change by moving to Colorado, then the Marshall fire threatened my backyard. We just don't understand all the consequences of climate change. And Joe's mention of India really had me scratching my head. The glaciers in the mountains are melting and causing floods. As stable as it may be, the temp is not stable enough

[@danielleohallisey4218]

I’m really struggling to decide what to do. My health has been devastated by post Covid heart problems (5 attacks in two years!) and I moved last year to be someplace closer to family, in Southern California. This summer was so hot I had to hide indoors for weeks on end, and it’s only going to get worse. Considering Canada now but would be 💯 on my own if I leave the country. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@justinsmith4562]

Move to an old persons home.

[@chuckymurlo5654]

Remember what your governor demanded. You must keep your air conditioner no lower than 78⁰ preferably 80 until we get those windmills cranked up. One more thing , don't charge your e-car between 4pm and 6 or your neighbors will report you.

[@ignazioacerenza9881]

It sounds like you should definetly head for a country that has better healthcare. I can't even fathom how financially crippling it must be to go through 5 hospitalizations in 2 years.

[@danielleohallisey4218]

@@chuckymurlo5654 so no, the governor demanded nothing and nobody will turn anybody in (this isn't Texas, for Christ's sake). We got through the recent heatwave (caused by global warming that the far right continues to pretend doesn't exist) by cooperating to keep our power use as low as possible. Which is more than, I dunno, Texas can say about the big winter storm they had a couple of years ago...

[@d7458]

Please don’t come to Canada…

[@matthewwhiting9283]

If you’re moving to the Great Lakes because it’s too hot to go outside 3 months out of the year just remember Great Lakes winters

[@GhostlyFilm]

Yup. Stay away. People can’t even drive in the winter as is here.

[@TheIdiotsHaveTakenOver]

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

[@zidbits1528]

It's interesting to note that the great lake states & Ontario Canada have created a treaty (the Great Lakes Water Compact) which forbids exporting the water outside their respective states (the federal government had to approve it since it included Ontario). This means if you want that fresh water, you're going to have to move to the rust belt states. Or rather, *back* to the rust belt states. They had a great exodus in the 1920s through the 50s, with people moving to Texas, California etc. In a twist of fate, they'll have to move back.

[@martin4819]

The US Federal Government could technically override that treaty. They would have to work with Canada obviously though. Siphoning off the Great Lakes, to say the west, will never happen. It would be political suicide……too many electoral votes and a couple of swing states along the Great Lakes. It would be the first time 100% of constituents agreed on something in that region 😂

[@TiltedTripodMedia]

Population in the Great Lakes states peaked around the 50s and has been in decline for decades. However we are seeing cities like Detroit and Cleveland begin to rebound because of their great location cooler summers and good natural resources. Oh and don’t forget affordability but unfortunately cost are on the rise. I’ve always lived in the Great Lakes states first Michigan. Now ohio. I tried Dallas for 2 years and it was the biggest mistake of my life.

[@NZKaupoi]

Great move, we sell a lot of our water rights to Chinese interests. Stupid move.

[@keviniverson3435]

Budget a nice chunk of time and $$ for snow removal🤣. Spots on the UP get 20+ Feet per winter.

[@chrispy1398]

This might be something up the Joe Scott information alley... the Bronze Age collapse is an era of human history that really fascinates me. Typical story, you're drawn into it by the mentions of the "sea peoples," wars, and mysterious devastation, but stay when you see the 5000 year old empires with elaborate trade networks and Game of the Thrones like politics and just a whole lot of question marks only ancient case files have. So the best bet is the climate of the East Mediterranean was changing (see Mesopotamia), a couple of freak natural disasters (see volcanoes and earthquakes), which led to mass migration, trade disruption and scarcity and became a feedback loop for unrest and war until practically no empire was left standing with the exception of Egypt, which historically has had a different climate compared to the rest of the Fertile Crescent with offset harvest seasons and a very reliable Nile. (Bye, Fertilicia?) I bring this up because what if this is our Oil Age collapse? Seems like a Joe kind of thought project.

[@Vaeldarg]

Hopefully instead we can turn it into a Golden Age of Electrification.

[@dreamlogic.v3390]

more likely to be the glowing age of nuclear craters.

[@mvalthegamer2450]

@@dreamlogic.v3390 Not really. Nukes are useless against a slow, fractured wave of immigrants moving steadily northward. If anything, mass famine and totalitarian police states are more likely

[@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.

[@plantbasedfit]

Me too!

[@geoffreyhenny4949]

I moved to Ann Arbor Michigan 35 years ago from California because i could see this coming. it was a great decision.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

Smart move!

[@bombappetit]

Speaking of disappearing coastlines. Just earlier this year I was looking to buy a small plot of beach land. But upon survey, half of the land is already beach with fallen trees and half submerged on high tides. Original maps and Google map images from half a decade ago indicate I was suppose to be standing on small patch of jungle.

[@adwoan]

As someone who has lived most of my 40 years in north Texas, I literally feel your pain. That's why for the last few years I've been researching more climate friendly areas... And actually bought acreage in KY. KY might be a little farther south than ideal, BUT, we still get weather patterns from the Great Lakes, and it's stunningly beautiful.

[@Erin-Thor]

Howdy fellow Texan! 🤠

[@clintmemo]

I've lived in KY for 44 years. I can't wait to leave and go north. I've been in Pheonix when it was 115. August in KY feels hotter.

[@ZombieMurdoc]

I live along Lake Erie and have been saying for years that this is rhe best place to live in the US. Not much seismic activity, fresh water access, all 4 seasons, no big tornadoes or hurricanes, and some flooding can happen in spots but not like in other places.

[@AQDuck]

I'm on a personal vendetta against climate change. It stole my summer by trapping a bunch of cool winds over my country for the entirety of July, while my neighbouring, southern, countries was literally burning up because of the trapped heat that should have been partly MINE.

[@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters]

Cool july is bad?

[@alaric_]

@@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters It is when the only time the snow melts, it's 15c outside and raining, until the snow start to fall again....

[@stoverboo]

@@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters It is if you're trying to grow crops that require heat during July.

[@MouzerMalti]

Norge?

[@andrasbiro3007]

​@Graham Perry And if you average the weather over a couple of years, that's called climate. One exceptional weather event is not climate change, but when the exceptional becomes the norm, that's climate change. For example, I only installed an AC 2 years ago, before that it just didn't worth the cost. We had 1-2 weeks of really hot weather every year, and that was already exceptional. This year I had the AC on for 3 months straight and was barely able to leave my apartment. Practically every day was a heatwave with unbearable temps and scorching sunlight. And the resulting drought is so bad that our nuclear power plant is running low on cooling water, despite it using one of Europe's largest rivers. It would be real fun to lose 50% of our electricity generation right in the middle of a major energy crisis. And for like a decade now the weather is either too hot or too cold, very rarely nice, while in my childhood it was nice most of the year. The winters are becoming much milder, without snow, but that's not a good trade. And of course, all of this is not exactly helping food production either, right in the middle of a major food shortage. And this is just the beginning, it's going to be far worse, and very soon.

[@jec6613]

When I purchased my first home six years ago, future climate change was definitely on the radar, especially as the one I found to buy when I was 35 can easily last the rest of my life (good design both for me being young and me being elderly). Location-wise, I'm in an area that will has sufficient rainfail even in extreme draught years, over 700 feet in elevation and somewhat inland, near a coastline to moderate temperatures, and in New England so relatively cool for now. But, other things that went into the decision that's not just temperature related: the house can and has survived nor'easters, tornados, and hurricanes with 100+ MPH wind without damage. I have sufficient buffer around the home in the event of forest fires or trees falling, I'm elevated relative to my surroundings so I don't have to worry about major flooding, and the entire home had the drainage system rebuilt post-Sandy. And all of the above are maintenance tasks that I have to stay on top of to keep the home safe long-term. But, perhaps most disturbingly, since the house was built in the '70's the A/C system has been upgraded from a 3 ton, to a 4 ton, and we're in the process of installing a 5 ton system. This despite the insulation also being improved over that time.

[@99guspuppet8]

would it be accurate to describe you as self-centered ? not a bad thing to be…… Do you do anything to fight climate change…… I mean personally as opposed to suggesting / demanding other people sacrifice

[@jec6613]

@@99guspuppet8 I keep my energy consumption relatively low, including the commuting car being a PHEV, almost all of my waste is recyclable and easily so, and purchase sustainable products when available. Plus things like adding insulation and using smart home features to further reduce my consumption. So, yes. But compared to public policy changes (which I also vote for) I can do relatively little.

[@99guspuppet8]

@@jec6613 good on you mate

[@aliannarodriguez1581]

If you haven’t put in the new system yet, take a look at geothermal.

[@The_Jaganath]

I'm in the UK but the summer here was brutal too (36 degrees inside with the fan on full) Not sure if we're just not used the heat here or it's not going to be much of a lifeboat country for long if the temperature keeps climbing...

[@bygonestales2171]

I live in a part of Australia where all summer is over 30 with months over 35. but I think us Australians don't understand how its different in the UK. a while ago I went to the UK in summer. It only hit 27 but it felt so much hotter at that temperature than it does at home. like, full on sweating. I was quite surprised. I don't know what it is that made it feel so different but it just did.

[@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

[@daveh893]

Good program. I think that finding livable places is a good option. I live in the Chicago area and we are about 600 feet above sea level which should be enough if all the ice melts. The problem may be in the increase rainfall which could make flooding a problem anyway. Still, I don't plan a move to Florida anytime soon and will take my chances right here.

[@EightJane]

I live in the middle of nebraska and it makes me sad to know my son will probably never know what a proper winter blizzard is like. Or a summer that isn't completely dried up crispy before June is over. It also sucks to know that small farmers here (including my own homestead) are goingnto start facing even more issues with keeping everything functioning. Nothing we can do to stop it now. Just have to try our best

[@achenarmyst2156]

Effects of individual behavior change can‘t be measured. But without individual behavior change all is lost. So I am interested if you seriously tried to cut down your individual emissions?

[@Sigma00000]

I moved to the Pacific Northwest from Arizona last summer. So far I'm loving being able to enjoy the summer when the days are long. Wild fires are still a concern and Winter... It gets cloudy and rainy, but that is perfect for video games and movies.

[@Just_Sara]

Summers are awesome here. :) Other than the smoke from the wildfires. :( And the clouds the rest of the time bring us the greenery we love so much, so it's hard to complain. Fun fact: I visited the peninsula (temperate rainforest) this summer, and the only difference I could see was that, somehow, there was even MORE moss and lichen than in the regular forests here.

[@kenmcclow8963]

@@Just_Sara Shhhhhhh.. It's dark, cold and rainy here all the time. We don't want them to know about summer, just about the thousand types of rain we get.

[@suzanned5859]

@@kenmcclow8963 It is heating up here in the old PNW. A lot of our power is based on hydro electric and much of the state has been in a very long drought. Last year we had a heat wave that saw temps of 119 degrees breaking records by 15 degrees. This month we have been getting 90 degree days in October. Not at all normal. This will be the third year of El Nina. Changes are increasing and not predictable. Rust best will have problems with insect infestation and potentially more rain and floods and more extreme storms as well. The best part of being here is not being in the Southwest that is drying out and cooking hot. Drive less. Quit eating beef. Vote for green new deal stuff.

[@kenmcclow8963]

@@suzanned5859 Today was only 84 in Snohomish County. We have a high pressure trapped over up which would be excellent except it is blowing the smoke the wrong way instead of off to the east. As soon as our high, or the low bringing cool rain to the southern California area weakens, we will get our normal rainy cool weather back. Most of our big dams are on the Columbia River that gets a lot of it's water in the mountains in northern BC. It will be a long time before we run out of water if ever. However, I have had an electric car for a long time. I don't really eat meat and rarely think about voting for a party that condones attacking our capital if they don't win an election. I have been aware of global warming since the late 80's and it never stops surprising me how much faster it is changing things than my expectations. I didn't expect the large scale crop failures to happen in my lifetime, but I expect they will become a regular thing in the next 5-10 years and populations will start to decline because of it. By which I mean, people will starve to death. In the US eventually, but in a lot of other places first.

[@suzanned5859]

@@kenmcclow8963 I agree with your assessment sadly. I still have hope that we can make a change. Young people are our hope. They may find solutions that we have not yet conceived of. I have three brilliant kids one teen and two adults. They have their heads and hearts in the right place.

[@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.

[@gregelliott2165]

I bought a Henson razer and couldn't be happier with it. Thanks for promoting quality products Joe.

[@DiederikCA]

Thanks for the tip, ill try it, if it ships to my country

[@bitebetsy]

I could not get the joescott discount to work - either with or w/o the 100 razor pac included - what did you order specifically - or, did you even use the Promo Code? Thanks'

[@willmfrank]

​@@DiederikCA Click the link in the description, scroll down to the bottom, and check out FAQ page; scroll down to General, and click on "Do you ship to my country;" that may help you find out.

[@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.

[@benh9688]

Also, becoming Dutch would help. I recall hearing somewhere that the Dutch are the tallest nation in the world. And being tall is a plus in a rising water situation.

[@The2wanderers]

I live far enough north that temperature is probably not a big risk. We did get our first 40°C days a couple years ago, but mostly we still see only 5-10 days a year topping 30°. Anyway, the problem here is wildfire smoke. It's been increasing since 2017 and this year absolutely blew the top off with most of the summer lost. It's adding to our list of reasons to move (reactionary politics have also made us very uncomfortable here), but are still trying to figure out where would be reasonably insulated.