It’s a small thing but it means people who don’t have to risk their lives for their loved ones.

But also: I work from home, and my neighbors across the street have dogs and do not. So I can make sure we have each other’s numbers and if there’s a crisis, I can get their dogs to safety so they don’t have to worry.

For us, our biggest and most acute disaster type is fire, which can start and move quickly. I can think about fire when dealing with my yard.

One of the things this story made me think about is, “what does climate disaster look like in my area, and what can I do to help?”

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The Year Without Sunshine - Uncanny Magazine

During one of the much smaller disasters that preceded the really big disaster, I met a lot of my neighbors online. I can’t remember if we set up the WhatsApp group because of the pandemic or the civi...

Nah you can’t control this shit. People don’t always show their asses all the time and you are in charge of your own behavior, but not anyone else’s.

I don’t want to foreground the “but I DO have a science background, UNO reverso” thing because the person going out right now with a chain saw to help save their neighbors is fighting climate change. Privileging someone’s college background is just douchebaggery.

Climate problems are fundamentally human problems. If you don’t listen to people about why they do things, and you just think the answer is that they don’t know science, you’re not going to be able to solve anything.

But mostly, if your view of climate is that you know the answers and stupid people should shut the fuck up, you’re the problem.

(I do have a science background, for what it’s worth, and also my views on this were deeply shaped by conversations with my older sister, a climate engineer who won a MacArthur genius grant and is on the NSF’s climate advisory board.)