Instead it is an argument to get to work building that kind of social trust in as many places as possible, because we’re going to need it. We’ve come through 75 years where having neighbors was essentially optional: if you had a credit card, you could get everything you needed to survive dropped off at your front door. But the next 75 years aren’t going to be like that; we’re going to need to return to the basic human experience of relying on the people around you. We’re going to need to rediscover that we’re a social species, which for Americans will be hard—at least since Reagan we’ve been told to think of ourselves first and foremost (it was his pal Margaret Thatcher who insisted ‘there is no such thing as society, only individual men and women.”) And in the Musk/Trump age we’re constantly instructed to distrust everyone and everything, a corrosion that erodes the social fabric as surely as a rampaging river erodes a highway.

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    10 months ago

    … remember the 21st century’s most important physical fact: warm air holds more water vapor; July set a new record for U.S. thunderstorms

    aka hot, wet & stormy.

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    10 months ago

    USA-centric views follow:

    Move to the Michigan Upper Peninsula while the bridge is still there.

    Personally I’m hoping Michigan can build a wall along its southern border to keep the riff raff out.

    That’s a joke.

    I really want a deep trench or moat instead.

    More seriously, rental folks are screwed. Very few landlords are going to improve insulation and air conditioning, they’ll try to dump the property on the next sucker instead. And by the time any meaningful legislation is passed, everyone will have moved as far north as they can.

    Regarding Michigan, I wonder if states will try to suck the great lakes dry during this century? Would former US states go to war with each other over water? 100% they will.