[CalRobert]

I love cities, and think that for the benefit of humanity, we should encourage more people to live in cities. It's one of the only ways to live a low(ish)-carbon relatively comfortable lifestyle.

However, on a personal level, I have been investigating homesteading as a hedge against climate change and possible damage (I hesitate to say collapse) to civilisation. I'm not sure being in a city during crop failures and rising seas is a great idea. Then again, I'm also not sure being on arable land without adequate defense is a great idea either.

I wonder if there's a more general anxiety about whether we can rely on the systems and infrastructure that provide us with food, power, water, etc. and that manifests itself in a desire to ensure we can provide for ourselves (though I worry that sense of assurance is illusory).