In this episode of When We Are, I talk about those insisting that you can’t possibly choose a safer place to weather the climate crisis, because every place is endangered.
I discuss why this claim is obviously wrong (some places are, in fact, relatively safe), and also who benefits from making it.
Like every part of the climate crisis, our understanding of risk and ruggedization are undermined by predatory delay and denialism. Paradoxically, the repeated message that nowhere is safe makes it easier to convince us to ignore the dangers around us. Why pay attention to risk if there’s nothing we can do about it, right?
I hope you’ll give this short episode a listen.
You might also want to check out these recent letters:
Will your next home be a climate lemon?
Climate chaos is going to strip a lot of value away from many communities. Some of that loss we can still defend against. Some we can help alleviate. But much is already both inevitable and irrecoverable. We collectively can neither prevent those losses nor make them whole. For most of us, the best we can do is try not to be in the most brittle…
Why are those with risk-exposed assets fighting so hard to avoid a reckoning with climate risk? Because the Brittleness Bubble is deflating, fast.
Climate chaos is already making us poorer. We're just pretending it's not.
My first powerful premonition of brittleness came to me on a levee in New Orleans.
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