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by temp-dude-87844 2757 days ago
Yeah: plan for long-term personal mitigation. Move to a country with a strong military and rule of law, but geopolitically a place that wouldn't make for an attractive target for invasion. Find a job that's well insulated from climate trends and economic shocks. Aim for areas whose environs could theoretically function on their own in an unfriendly world, as opposed to areas that derive their wealth solely from trade and intangibles.

This is drastic, but there's a few obvious situations in which you don't want to find yourself. You don't want to be a farmer in a high-population subtropical country. You don't want to be a military-age person in a country that's already concerned with food and water security, let alone general resource scarcity. But you also don't want to be a homeowner in a flood-prone location where in a few decades your insurance will price you out, nor would you want to operate a farm, even in a high-income country, in a place where you're already struggling with increasingly severe droughts. Above all else, you don't want to find yourself in a situation where you're ill-equipped to handle crises in the global or local markets as pressures build on struggling populations.

The irony is that the strategy to insulate yourself from the worst of climate change is very similar to the strategy to insulating yourself from every other social and economic ill: be wealthy, mobile if needed, and for your extended community to be self-sufficient if required.