Susan, glad things worked out in the end. Thanks for keeping the climate resilience conversation front and center by sharing your experience. This ordeal you all went through is a stark warning of how bad and unpredictable these events can be and how they can catch us off guard on multiple fronts. To better preparedness and better times ahead..
Susan, this is such a compelling and vivid account—it’s a stark reminder of the precarious balance we rely on daily, and how easily it can tip. Your story brilliantly illustrates both the personal and systemic vulnerabilities we face in the era of climate change, as well as the quiet luxury of being prepared.
Your honesty about human nature—our tendency to prioritize the immediate over the hypothetical—is so relatable. That line about buying a Peloton before a home battery struck a chord. It’s a reminder that even those of us aware of the risks struggle to prioritize adaptation until it’s too late.
Well said. If those of us aware of the risks are still muddling along without batteries and fire extinguishers, then what about everyone else? Scary to contemplate how things might unravel if the situation gets just a little more serious
Thanks for this, Murphy. Although the author seems to hail from a 'burn it all down' possibly alt right lean, which I don't share, it makes an incredibly compelling point that we rarely talk about in climate circles and I'm thankful you shared it with me. And yet, the proof is all around us that climate policy doesn't lead to better results: rising global emissions every year, ever-increasing fossil fuel development even in the face of renewables market expansion and climate goals and treaties, and the emergence of novel chemical entities that could extinct us if nothing else does.
In the appendix of her canonical work Thinking in Systems, Donella Meadows offers a cheatsheet on the 12 levers that can change a system, listed from the least to the most effective. Policy is the first item on the list, and yet it remains the primary focus of most technocratic thinkers in democratic societies. The most powerful lever? Culture.
Susan, glad things worked out in the end. Thanks for keeping the climate resilience conversation front and center by sharing your experience. This ordeal you all went through is a stark warning of how bad and unpredictable these events can be and how they can catch us off guard on multiple fronts. To better preparedness and better times ahead..
Things can certainly snowball quickly! Thanks for the comment Chin, hope you're well
Susan, this is such a compelling and vivid account—it’s a stark reminder of the precarious balance we rely on daily, and how easily it can tip. Your story brilliantly illustrates both the personal and systemic vulnerabilities we face in the era of climate change, as well as the quiet luxury of being prepared.
Your honesty about human nature—our tendency to prioritize the immediate over the hypothetical—is so relatable. That line about buying a Peloton before a home battery struck a chord. It’s a reminder that even those of us aware of the risks struggle to prioritize adaptation until it’s too late.
Well said. If those of us aware of the risks are still muddling along without batteries and fire extinguishers, then what about everyone else? Scary to contemplate how things might unravel if the situation gets just a little more serious
Thanks for this, Murphy. Although the author seems to hail from a 'burn it all down' possibly alt right lean, which I don't share, it makes an incredibly compelling point that we rarely talk about in climate circles and I'm thankful you shared it with me. And yet, the proof is all around us that climate policy doesn't lead to better results: rising global emissions every year, ever-increasing fossil fuel development even in the face of renewables market expansion and climate goals and treaties, and the emergence of novel chemical entities that could extinct us if nothing else does.
In the appendix of her canonical work Thinking in Systems, Donella Meadows offers a cheatsheet on the 12 levers that can change a system, listed from the least to the most effective. Policy is the first item on the list, and yet it remains the primary focus of most technocratic thinkers in democratic societies. The most powerful lever? Culture.