Climate change

[languagelearner]

I read this article in "the Guardian" this morning, and then came to think it was odd that there is no thread on "climate change" in the prepper's section. I found it a bit peculiar. It seems it's a topic not so much discussed. The elephant in the room, sort of.

Anyway, here's the article, the title of the article is "Writing about climate change: my professional detachment has finally turned to panic":
www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2017/jan/20/writing-about-climate-change-my-professional-detachment-has-finally-turned-to-panic

I don't know why. I suspect that in being prepared, people/posters tend to focus on their individual situations whereas climate change is so big, so political. I reckon you'll find that most people on this board try to do the smaller things as a matter of course in their lives, though. The article is more an expression of desperation I think?

I think because so many people see it as gradual we shy away from making plans. I also think a lot of people hope we (as a planet) will be lucky and will escape it. We clearly won't.
Mass crop failures will sadly wake people up.

I'm not sure they will.

Doing something about climate change means making the vast majority of people give up things. A lot of things. Cast your mind over your acquaintances and ask yourself how many would be prepared to ?

I think that people may be considering some of the outcomes of climate change, rather than the actual source, when they think about potential situations, e.g. floods, forest fires.

It's so big, and so inevitable, that there isn't really anything to be done.

Sorry to say that I've been banging on about it since the 80s me no one gives a shit.

I think it's not so much a "there isn't really anything to be done" as much as "nobody is prepared to do anything as of now".

Anyway, I'm in Sweden and we don't have much snow here now, it's the end of January. Practical, in a way, but it wasn't like that when I grew up - you could always go out for a sledge ride in January, when I grew up. Anyway, I read on a Norwegian website that foreign tourists visiting Svalbard in December were quite angry that there was no snow on Svalbard, and they've paid so much for their trip there...

Added: Seems all "our" snow has landed on the courgettes in Italy and Spain. Was in the supermarket the day before yesterday, and there were big holes gaping where the courgettes and the salads had been.

There was snow in the Sahara this year too.

....I think it's not so much a "there isn't really anything to be done" as much as "nobody is prepared to do anything as of now". ....

I agree.

We were in Morrisons yesterday and people were getting pretty angry at staff about the lack of the following veg
Courgettes
Tomatoes
Spinach
New potatoes

Yes it is a shame they couldn't get what they wanted but this kind of thing really should be the kind of thing to wake them up but it won't. They were very, very angry but it didn't occur to them these were summer veg.

As I said. People aren't prepared to 'give up things'. Not personally, anyway.

Pity with the courgettes, though. A sort of funny episode, in its way, happened at lunch the other day. I had "chicken and woked vegetables" and in the dish there are (always) sliced courgettes. Anyway, we were talking about the vegetables and their current prices, all of a sudden one courgette slice of mine landed on the table cloth, I dropped it, so put it aside on a paper napkin. One of the others: -Oh gosh, that was £2 !!!
It's OK as long as you can joke about it. When you stop joking, you're n seriouos trouble.

There are very few .....difficulties where supermarket shelves don't empty quickly. (Refilling is extremely problematic.) I'd start looking at old recipes if I were you and learning the basics of the UK's vegetable cycle. ( If you don't already know it.) Adjusting your eating to more natural rhythms is part of the 'giving up' process.

I will, except as I'm peeking into Mumsnet from abroad, I will learn the vegetable cycle up here... They're running an episode of "Worst weather ever" on the National Geographic Channel, an interesting program they just showed an image of the Rossby waves and their changing patterns...

Forgive that I forgot you weren't UK, language.

Best learn how to grow or raise things locally then. (Most people think they could do that but wouldn't have a clue if it actually came to it. Practice is all.)

Practise.