Thank you for your honesty even when it's uncomfortable. Your channel is a beacon of hope in part because you're willing to face the truth with open eyes- and an open heart- while still preparing for the coming hardships. I really appreciate the work you do and the compassion you bring to your message. ❤
@@AmericanResiliency emotional/empathy burnout happens. If you're getting overwhelmed let us, your community, know and let us know how we can support you. We're all here to help carry this and help each other.
@pendragon_cave1405 I really appreciate that. Honestly I feel better after making the video and talking with people through the channel here. And also it is good to be home.
Great notes on class dynamics and differences in opportunity to prepare for the future - I've noticed similar things here in NM in the few env sci conferences I've attended. Well dressed polite scientists and policy types adjacent to working class folks barely getting by, not nearly in as good of a place to get prepared.
It hurts to see how deep those divisions are getting. Since 2019, the difference in appearances is becoming much more visible to me. The way people are aging is becoming very different based on class.
If you watch the news on the recent hurricane that devastated Acapulco, Mexico, I think the dismal lack of care for the working class is a forecast of how many scenarios will play out as our climate becomes more challenging. We have to work together! :)
I also see Acapulco as a clear message get away from the coasts if you have any capacity to do so. Those poor folks had no warning, and that wasn't because of anyone's incompetence. Everything happened to fast to evacuate a city of that size. This is not going to be the only extremely rapid intensification event.
If I could get a chance at being the President of the United States, you would be my top Cabinet official on climate residency. Thank you for the wonderful content and unbiased reporting. The country, and the world for that matter, need to not only hear the words but understand them.
Next year I fear will be one worth bracing for. I remind myself to stay connected to good things- that maintaining a sense of joy is as important as any other form of resilience cultivation.
Thanks for your observations as you drove north. You said that some forests looked healthy and beautiful, while others looked terrible. Perhaps we could re-frame that a bit. It seems unhealthy-looking forests may just be in the process of changing to a different landscape. Seeing these changes can help us imagine what is in store. Remember, things change faster the farther north you go. Maybe those changes just haven't happened yet to Minneapolis and points south. A hundred years ago, I read a book called Future Shock. The premise is that just as we experience culture shock when we travel to a different culture, we experience a similar kind of shock when things change rapidly in our own neighborhoods. Maybe that cute house on the corner was torn down without notice. Maybe an office park replaced a meadow in less than a year. Maybe that forest is being replaced with grasslands more quickly than we imagined. The best way to protect ourselves from future shock is to imagine and anticipate changes to come. Reading science fiction can help with that. (Think about how Star Trek anticipated so many of the technologies we have today.) I think just reading the science about climate change can prepare us. American Resiliency has been a great help for me in adjusting ahead of time for what is to come. I think getting ready for me means just imagining what the landscape will look like in the next few years, and preparing myself mentally and emotionally for both the near and distant future.
Thank you for this helpful and grounding reply. Seriously. I've re-read it several times, it's been meaningful for me. I feel like I am going through levels of acceptance- it's one thing for me to see the data, from my relatively stable landscape (and there are quite a few places in the US where landscapes are projected to stay fairly stable) and another to go into a high-change area. The reaction is visceral- I want to be wrong, you know? It sucks that I am not wrong.
@@AmericanResiliency Yeah, change sucks. But this project, American Resiliency, is on the right track. I'm glad you started it. It helps so many people. 💚
All I have to say is dang. Great story telling. Serious subject manner. You did a wonderful job relaying your emotional reaction as well as your observation of the dichotomy witnessed socially. Great video and call to action!
Thank you for reporting back. I greatly appreciate how attentive you are to social indicators. I find that much sustainability is exclusively focused on biological indicators in a way that entirely ignores the practical considerations of resilience for real people. Sobering stuff. Also having been doing unrelated griefwork for the better part of this month, I can only say dont knock it till you try it. Grim as it may be, I've been finding renewed strength from grief, as it's required me to practice courage, compassion and non-attachment. Sending your affect through a couple dozen rounds of adaptive cycling does wonders for your emotional resilience. We would do well to get comfy with grief, it'll serve us well going forth
@FigureOnAStick agreed that is not an unhealthy place to be. Maybe you will like the content I'm working on today, I'm developing it from an interview with an anthropology professor who focuses on death. I was asking her about how death rituals changed the last time humans went though a major climate convulsion- was very interesting. Total transformation of cultural practices. Not dissimilar, at the beginning, to the fragmentation and abandonment of traditional mourning many have noted in our time.
Thanks, Emily, this was delightfully candid. Let me be candid as well: I joined your channel as a doomsayer, but underwent a recent near-death experience that completely changed my perspective on climate change. I had a full on, textbook mystical experience. During my communion with the Creator, I learned that we are all a part of the same eternal consciousness with varying levels of awareness of our own divinity. The story of Earth is the story of remembering who we really are through grand trials and tribulations. Our next chapter is a formidable one, but always remember that God takes care of its creation. When the time comes, we will unleash the ability to restore our biosphere. The only difference between fiction and non-fiction is that fiction has to make sense. There is no coincidence that we are slowly prepping the public for the disclosure of alien technologies that defy our puerile understanding of physics. Now I tell people to have faith in the kids because they really do have what it takes to come together and solve this! Just when all hope seems lost, we're gonna turn this thing around. That's the wild space opera we call Earth.
Your mystical experience sounds pretty awesome. Like, in the classical as well as popular sense of the word. My husband and I tell each other often when we are in despair, to remember we are in the hand of God.
(also, I apologize for focusing on my interest in your vision rather than the whole fact you almost died. Congrats on your survival, and hope you are recovering well.)
Thanks, Emily! Make no mistake, dying is the greatest thing to ever happen to me! I am very, very blessed to walk away physically unscathed but psychically reborn. Before, I really struggled to see the point of all this hardship, and could not shake a deep, logical hopelessness when presented with the data. As a 30 year old, I felt like my future had been robbed by capitalism's destruction. Now I see that we are all gods with blindfolds on. The moment we're collectively ready to evolve past our crabs-in-a-bucket mentality is the moment that advanced technologies are allowed to be proliferated. Words are not fit to describe our innate omnipotence. The existential dread and logical terrors of my life evaporated in recognition of the pervasiveness of divine presence in all beings, creatures, and the vacuum of empty space. It's hard convince logical, aware people to be less dire about our situation. I'd love to figure out the most efficient way to inject hope into this space because this issue literally drove me to s******. Thanks for your efforts in building a better tomorrow, no matter how daunting.@@AmericanResiliency
@@AmericanResiliency We missed the community hangout on Sunday, so we'll watch and catch up and hope to make the next one. I know you cover the NCA5 info there and I look forward to hearing the conversation and breakdown.
@ProfessorDesiree I'd be interested in your thoughts on some of these figures. The complete contrast in outlook info for Hawaii is particularly unusual. Look forward to seeing you both next time!
Oh, that would be great if so! I was looking at images to check out the shape of the tree- I think you are right about some of them. I definitely saw dead-looking pines with needles on that were not tamarack, that looked dead this year, but I'm thrilled to put anyone back in the "alive" category!
I came here to comment the same. I also drove up north on 35 this past Monday and Friday, and the Tamaracks were in full color and gorgeous. Lots of them along I-35 in certain marshy areas. Very unique trees! However, I too was a little disturbed by some of the new clear-cutting in some of the areas mentioned.
@KatyAnne-nc7zq I appreciate the local eye. Some of the people I talked with said they had noticed a big decrease in bugs in the area- one woman told me a big drop in dragonflies just this year. Have you noticed anything like that in the north?
Thanks! Two questions, first, why do you think they’re holding the assessment? Maybe trying to figure out how to present it so as not to cause panic or something? Second, any ideas why house prices in the area you described are so high if there’s so much poverty? Looks like they’d be low instead. Thanks for all you do!
Thank you so much! Here are my thoughts on those questions, starting with the second one- the housing in Duluth is all messed up because of airbnb investors. A lot of the housing stock has been turned into investment & vacation property and it's totally messed up the market for people who live in the area. I wish I had a bead on why they might be holding the assessment. These reports don't usually get enough play to cause panic, but who knows? Could just be that it's at the bottom of a pile where the whole nightmare geopolitical situation keeps getting stacked on top. My hunch, with nothing to back it up, is that the report is quite bad, and that they're planning to release it a day or two after some big military escalation so it doesn't get any press coverage.
@@AmericanResiliency that’s kinda what I was thinking. Reduce the possibility of panic or some other seriously bad reaction by releasing it in the midst of some major news and then it doesn’t get any play. That’s odd about the house thing. I thought the air b&b market had collapsed. I know it mostly has down here in Atlanta. Maybe a lot of rich people are just buying them up and sitting on them? Who knows? Thanks again for all you do!
@lennsisson there are a fair number of very wealthy people who have summer homes up in Duluth- it's got a reputation as a climate destination (that I do not think it deserves) among the wealthy. I have heard that airbnb markets are collapsing but I don't think it's true everywhere. My friends in New Orleans say the pressure is still terrible there.
Thank you for sharing this with us. Arkansas government is too distracted in culture wars and except for Fayetteville area is utterly unconcerned. Although we own our house, I want to move to an area with like-minded people! People who care about climate change and coming together to be resilient. Would you recommend Iowa or Minnesota? I've never lived in a severely cold place (like Minnesota). We want to make a difference and be part of the solution. Anyone who reads my comment on this page who wants to reach out, please do! We are open to Michigan as well. However, we cannot afford a $400,000 house. We are, as Dr. S says, "regular people." Hope to have some money soon to donate to this awesome and important cause!!!
Wishing you all the best- check out this video, I did some cultural notes and looked at home prices for quite a few places in the northern Midwest. th-cam.com/video/ORWr7qveDxI/w-d-xo.html I would highly recommend Cedar Rapids as an affordable destination with decent jobs and good housing- but do avoid ANYPLACE that has EVER flooded.
I appreciate this advice and will try to chill out lol. I'm a religious woman as well as a scientist... I will admit that, for better or for worse, my curiosity, my impulse to understand, they are a big part of my nature. But we all must accept, there are limits to what we can control. Fundamentally, I believe we are held in the hand of God.
@@AmericanResiliency Nice response, I'm glad to hear that you understand this perspective, as many don't. Trying to change Gods plan for us would be a mightily impossible task. The issue of climate change is a battle with the evil in all of us, and represents a fight against human nature at its worst. We can't win a fight against the greed, selfishness and power that the people most responsible for our world today desire. Creating a cause to battle the will of man is akin to trying to make the sun set in the East. We live in an interesting world, in interesting times. Maybe it's best to spend our energy helping others, and worry less about the inevitable outcome of this world. The Bible says that earth will be recreated, so no worries. All life here currently dies either way, it's all just part of the plan.
I appreciate the sense of urgency and not sugar-coating things.
The El Nino outlook for 2024 is increasingly brutal and we can't keep ignoring the observations coming in from South America and Antarctica.
I really appreciate you bringing a class analysis into the conversation
Thank you. I come from a working-class background and my intention with American Resiliency is to reach regular working people.
Thank you for your honesty even when it's uncomfortable. Your channel is a beacon of hope in part because you're willing to face the truth with open eyes- and an open heart- while still preparing for the coming hardships. I really appreciate the work you do and the compassion you bring to your message. ❤
Thank you so much for these kind words. I will keep doing my best.
@@AmericanResiliency emotional/empathy burnout happens. If you're getting overwhelmed let us, your community, know and let us know how we can support you. We're all here to help carry this and help each other.
@pendragon_cave1405 I really appreciate that. Honestly I feel better after making the video and talking with people through the channel here. And also it is good to be home.
Great notes on class dynamics and differences in opportunity to prepare for the future - I've noticed similar things here in NM in the few env sci conferences I've attended. Well dressed polite scientists and policy types adjacent to working class folks barely getting by, not nearly in as good of a place to get prepared.
It hurts to see how deep those divisions are getting. Since 2019, the difference in appearances is becoming much more visible to me. The way people are aging is becoming very different based on class.
If you watch the news on the recent hurricane that devastated Acapulco, Mexico, I think the dismal lack of care for the working class is a forecast of how many scenarios will play out as our climate becomes more challenging. We have to work together! :)
I also see Acapulco as a clear message get away from the coasts if you have any capacity to do so. Those poor folks had no warning, and that wasn't because of anyone's incompetence. Everything happened to fast to evacuate a city of that size. This is not going to be the only extremely rapid intensification event.
If I could get a chance at being the President of the United States, you would be my top Cabinet official on climate residency. Thank you for the wonderful content and unbiased reporting. The country, and the world for that matter, need to not only hear the words but understand them.
The Challenge will only increase with time, thanks for shining a light on one path to a better future.
Next year I fear will be one worth bracing for. I remind myself to stay connected to good things- that maintaining a sense of joy is as important as any other form of resilience cultivation.
Thanks for your observations as you drove north. You said that some forests looked healthy and beautiful, while others looked terrible.
Perhaps we could re-frame that a bit. It seems unhealthy-looking forests may just be in the process of changing to a different landscape. Seeing these changes can help us imagine what is in store.
Remember, things change faster the farther north you go. Maybe those changes just haven't happened yet to Minneapolis and points south.
A hundred years ago, I read a book called Future Shock. The premise is that just as we experience culture shock when we travel to a different culture, we experience a similar kind of shock when things change rapidly in our own neighborhoods. Maybe that cute house on the corner was torn down without notice. Maybe an office park replaced a meadow in less than a year. Maybe that forest is being replaced with grasslands more quickly than we imagined.
The best way to protect ourselves from future shock is to imagine and anticipate changes to come. Reading science fiction can help with that. (Think about how Star Trek anticipated so many of the technologies we have today.)
I think just reading the science about climate change can prepare us. American Resiliency has been a great help for me in adjusting ahead of time for what is to come. I think getting ready for me means just imagining what the landscape will look like in the next few years, and preparing myself mentally and emotionally for both the near and distant future.
Thank you for this helpful and grounding reply. Seriously. I've re-read it several times, it's been meaningful for me.
I feel like I am going through levels of acceptance- it's one thing for me to see the data, from my relatively stable landscape (and there are quite a few places in the US where landscapes are projected to stay fairly stable) and another to go into a high-change area. The reaction is visceral- I want to be wrong, you know? It sucks that I am not wrong.
@@AmericanResiliency Yeah, change sucks. But this project, American Resiliency, is on the right track. I'm glad you started it. It helps so many people. 💚
All I have to say is dang. Great story telling. Serious subject manner. You did a wonderful job relaying your emotional reaction as well as your observation of the dichotomy witnessed socially. Great video and call to action!
@kylemecham, thank you
Thank you for reporting back. I greatly appreciate how attentive you are to social indicators. I find that much sustainability is exclusively focused on biological indicators in a way that entirely ignores the practical considerations of resilience for real people. Sobering stuff.
Also having been doing unrelated griefwork for the better part of this month, I can only say dont knock it till you try it. Grim as it may be, I've been finding renewed strength from grief, as it's required me to practice courage, compassion and non-attachment. Sending your affect through a couple dozen rounds of adaptive cycling does wonders for your emotional resilience. We would do well to get comfy with grief, it'll serve us well going forth
@FigureOnAStick agreed that is not an unhealthy place to be. Maybe you will like the content I'm working on today, I'm developing it from an interview with an anthropology professor who focuses on death. I was asking her about how death rituals changed the last time humans went though a major climate convulsion- was very interesting. Total transformation of cultural practices. Not dissimilar, at the beginning, to the fragmentation and abandonment of traditional mourning many have noted in our time.
@@AmericanResiliency sounds like an excellent conversation, I look forward to it!
You have a great channel, thank you for your excellent work!
Thanks, Emily, this was delightfully candid. Let me be candid as well: I joined your channel as a doomsayer, but underwent a recent near-death experience that completely changed my perspective on climate change. I had a full on, textbook mystical experience.
During my communion with the Creator, I learned that we are all a part of the same eternal consciousness with varying levels of awareness of our own divinity. The story of Earth is the story of remembering who we really are through grand trials and tribulations. Our next chapter is a formidable one, but always remember that God takes care of its creation. When the time comes, we will unleash the ability to restore our biosphere. The only difference between fiction and non-fiction is that fiction has to make sense. There is no coincidence that we are slowly prepping the public for the disclosure of alien technologies that defy our puerile understanding of physics.
Now I tell people to have faith in the kids because they really do have what it takes to come together and solve this! Just when all hope seems lost, we're gonna turn this thing around. That's the wild space opera we call Earth.
Your mystical experience sounds pretty awesome. Like, in the classical as well as popular sense of the word.
My husband and I tell each other often when we are in despair, to remember we are in the hand of God.
(also, I apologize for focusing on my interest in your vision rather than the whole fact you almost died. Congrats on your survival, and hope you are recovering well.)
Thanks, Emily! Make no mistake, dying is the greatest thing to ever happen to me! I am very, very blessed to walk away physically unscathed but psychically reborn.
Before, I really struggled to see the point of all this hardship, and could not shake a deep, logical hopelessness when presented with the data. As a 30 year old, I felt like my future had been robbed by capitalism's destruction.
Now I see that we are all gods with blindfolds on. The moment we're collectively ready to evolve past our crabs-in-a-bucket mentality is the moment that advanced technologies are allowed to be proliferated. Words are not fit to describe our innate omnipotence. The existential dread and logical terrors of my life evaporated in recognition of the pervasiveness of divine presence in all beings, creatures, and the vacuum of empty space.
It's hard convince logical, aware people to be less dire about our situation. I'd love to figure out the most efficient way to inject hope into this space because this issue literally drove me to s******. Thanks for your efforts in building a better tomorrow, no matter how daunting.@@AmericanResiliency
I value your knowledge and honesty.
Thank you for sharing what you've learned, even though it's hard to hear, and I'm sure, very hard to say. You are a treasure.
@ProfessorDesiree, thank you. I'm checking every day for any new updates on NCA5, I'll get any info out as soon as I can.
@@AmericanResiliency We missed the community hangout on Sunday, so we'll watch and catch up and hope to make the next one. I know you cover the NCA5 info there and I look forward to hearing the conversation and breakdown.
@ProfessorDesiree I'd be interested in your thoughts on some of these figures. The complete contrast in outlook info for Hawaii is particularly unusual. Look forward to seeing you both next time!
The dead-looking pines with the yellow needles may have been tamarack, which is deciduous.
Oh, that would be great if so! I was looking at images to check out the shape of the tree- I think you are right about some of them. I definitely saw dead-looking pines with needles on that were not tamarack, that looked dead this year, but I'm thrilled to put anyone back in the "alive" category!
I came here to comment the same. I also drove up north on 35 this past Monday and Friday, and the Tamaracks were in full color and gorgeous. Lots of them along I-35 in certain marshy areas. Very unique trees! However, I too was a little disturbed by some of the new clear-cutting in some of the areas mentioned.
@KatyAnne-nc7zq I appreciate the local eye. Some of the people I talked with said they had noticed a big decrease in bugs in the area- one woman told me a big drop in dragonflies just this year. Have you noticed anything like that in the north?
Thanks! Two questions, first, why do you think they’re holding the assessment? Maybe trying to figure out how to present it so as not to cause panic or something? Second, any ideas why house prices in the area you described are so high if there’s so much poverty? Looks like they’d be low instead. Thanks for all you do!
Thank you so much! Here are my thoughts on those questions, starting with the second one- the housing in Duluth is all messed up because of airbnb investors. A lot of the housing stock has been turned into investment & vacation property and it's totally messed up the market for people who live in the area.
I wish I had a bead on why they might be holding the assessment. These reports don't usually get enough play to cause panic, but who knows? Could just be that it's at the bottom of a pile where the whole nightmare geopolitical situation keeps getting stacked on top. My hunch, with nothing to back it up, is that the report is quite bad, and that they're planning to release it a day or two after some big military escalation so it doesn't get any press coverage.
@@AmericanResiliency that’s kinda what I was thinking. Reduce the possibility of panic or some other seriously bad reaction by releasing it in the midst of some major news and then it doesn’t get any play. That’s odd about the house thing. I thought the air b&b market had collapsed. I know it mostly has down here in Atlanta. Maybe a lot of rich people are just buying them up and sitting on them? Who knows? Thanks again for all you do!
@lennsisson there are a fair number of very wealthy people who have summer homes up in Duluth- it's got a reputation as a climate destination (that I do not think it deserves) among the wealthy. I have heard that airbnb markets are collapsing but I don't think it's true everywhere. My friends in New Orleans say the pressure is still terrible there.
Thank you for sharing this with us. Arkansas government is too distracted in culture wars and except for Fayetteville area is utterly unconcerned. Although we own our house, I want to move to an area with like-minded people! People who care about climate change and coming together to be resilient. Would you recommend Iowa or Minnesota? I've never lived in a severely cold place (like Minnesota). We want to make a difference and be part of the solution. Anyone who reads my comment on this page who wants to reach out, please do! We are open to Michigan as well. However, we cannot afford a $400,000 house. We are, as Dr. S says, "regular people." Hope to have some money soon to donate to this awesome and important cause!!!
Wishing you all the best- check out this video, I did some cultural notes and looked at home prices for quite a few places in the northern Midwest. th-cam.com/video/ORWr7qveDxI/w-d-xo.html I would highly recommend Cedar Rapids as an affordable destination with decent jobs and good housing- but do avoid ANYPLACE that has EVER flooded.
thank you 👍 will do
Better an uncomfortable truth an a convenient lie. Thanks.
Please move to California or New York as you are badly needed to help fix these dystopian places.
My little prairie needs me here!
@@AmericanResiliency okay you stay there 😃
God is in control, things will play out as he intended. Don't worry so much.
I appreciate this advice and will try to chill out lol. I'm a religious woman as well as a scientist... I will admit that, for better or for worse, my curiosity, my impulse to understand, they are a big part of my nature. But we all must accept, there are limits to what we can control. Fundamentally, I believe we are held in the hand of God.
@@AmericanResiliency Nice response, I'm glad to hear that you understand this perspective, as many don't. Trying to change Gods plan for us would be a mightily impossible task. The issue of climate change is a battle with the evil in all of us, and represents a fight against human nature at its worst. We can't win a fight against the greed, selfishness and power that the people most responsible for our world today desire. Creating a cause to battle the will of man is akin to trying to make the sun set in the East. We live in an interesting world, in interesting times. Maybe it's best to spend our energy helping others, and worry less about the inevitable outcome of this world. The Bible says that earth will be recreated, so no worries. All life here currently dies either way, it's all just part of the plan.