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Climate futurist.

alexsteffen.substack.com/

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What can you do to prepare for increasing climate chaos? Consider the Personal Ruggedization course from climate futurist Alex Steffen! Another suggestion: Check out the Climate Vulnerability Index, map.climatevulnerabilityindex.org, with detail to the city level.

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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Whether we live on a planet in crisis is no longer a choice.

What we can choose is how successfully we do it.

If you're ready to learn how to make smart plans in a time of uncertainty, growing chaos and fast-moving threats, this course is for you:

open.substack.com/pub/alexstef...

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Yes, the planet is in crisis. This seems increasingly impossible to ignore (but people try really hard). The extreme weather we see now -- the scale of wildfires, length and depth of heat waves, power of storms -- are now not 'extreme' but normal. So hard for people to grasp that reality.

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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For more context:

"Ruggedization is a term I borrowed from the military. I use it describe the process of turning the need to make systems durable (in the face of unprecedented and often unforeseeable threats) into a force for transformation."

alexsteffen.substack.com/p/ruggedize-...

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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Whether we live on a planet in crisis is no longer a choice.

What we can choose is how successfully we do it.

If you're ready to learn how to make smart plans in a time of uncertainty, growing chaos and fast-moving threats, this course is for you:

open.substack.com/pub/alexstef...

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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New letter!

The Bottleneck and You: How the "climate squeeze" is making it harder to find a home that's relatively safe, and why the problem will almost certainly get worse.

Important context for those thinking about personal ruggedization.

alexsteffen.substack.com/p/the-bottle... Please share.

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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Damn, these Long Range Desert Group/SAS men were something else.

Last original member dies at 103; to raid a Nazi airfield he "navigated 18 jeeps 235 miles across the desert without headlights or maps..."

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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With critical talks in distant deserts failing, I'm feeling the old Gary Snyder wisdom tonight. "Stay together learn the flowers go light"

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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Now here's a proper send off for the man.

Whatever your failings, if hundreds of people gather for your funeral, sing your songs, and dance in the aisles of the church, you've done something right.

twitter.com/gavreilly/st...

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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RIP Shane MacGowan. Rum, Sodomy and the Lash was one the formative albums of my tender years. It's been years since I've played it, but I could still probably sing the whole thing from memory.

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home." —Gary Snyder

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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Add the difficulty that carbon budgets must include all the CO2 used to build the new systems and cities we need to decarbonize (and ruggedize against climate chaos) — a massive undertaking.

We have no CO2 left to fritter away on business as usual.

twitter.com/AlexSteffen/...

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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When you're gambling against catastrophe, 50-50 odds suck.

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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Adaptation, as widely understood, won't protect us from events we have never experienced before, occurring in frequencies and patterns we cannot predict.

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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What #Otis and now #Ciarán are telling us is that the loss of predictability caused by climate chaos and ecological collapse is only getting started.

Normal is a concept receding into the distance behind us.

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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Maybe I've just grown out of social media in my own life. I find it less and less useful as a platform for discovery, getting the most interesting stuff mostly from newsletters, now. As always, YMMV.

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That weird thing where our hopes for new social media platforms seem to be for a return to the less-broken, less-horrible earlier years of the larger platforms, often ourselves forgetting how insubstantial & shallow most of those interactions there were, even at their best. What's next?

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home." —Gary Snyder

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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Wow this sure looks sustainable.

Worsening impacts mean “Climate-related spending has made up 32% of GDP growth since 2016... a growing, visible part of the US economy..."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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"Wow, this is a huge weight off my chest."

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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Want to start readying yourself for what's coming?

Just 48 hours left to sign up for my Crash Course on Personal Ruggedization.

Enrollment closes on Wednesday, October 11th, at 10:00 am Pacific time.

app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php...

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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Direct climate impacts alone cost people $280,000,000,000 ($280B) in 2022.

We are still only at the beginning of the crisis.

None of us can afford to plan our lives as if the world were not lurching through unprecedented discontinuities.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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Want to start readying yourself for what's coming?

Just 48 hours left to sign up for my Crash Course on Personal Ruggedization.

Enrollment closes on Wednesday, October 11th, at 10:00 am Pacific time.

app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php...

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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Friday, record rainfall in New York. This weekend, heatwaves on the Plains (94º in Omaha). Tomorrow, records will be broken elsewhere, and more will be broken the next day, and every day, for decades. Being smart about our own futures demands getting real about living on a planet in upheaval.

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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Wow this sure looks sustainable.

Worsening impacts mean “Climate-related spending has made up 32% of GDP growth since 2016... a growing, visible part of the US economy..."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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The early-bird discount for this autumn's Crash Course in Personal Ruggedization expires tomorrow.

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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Here's the US Treasury telling us what time it is.

Climate "could have severe and lasting negative implications for the financial well-being of American households... these effects have already been felt by households who have experienced extreme weather events."

home.treasury.gov/system/files...

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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I'm teaching a six-week crash course in personal ruggedization, beginning October 12th.

I describe the course here: alexsteffen.substack.com/p/what-is-yo...

If you're serious about learning how to make clear-headed choices in a chaotic world, you might want to check it out.

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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If we make those decisions well, we can secure a less risky, more prosperous future for our loved ones AND help drive forward the kinds of large-scale changes needed to build better futures for many others. Personal ruggedization is a platform for purpose-driven success.

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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Savvy personal ruggedization is not about hoarding, bugging out or bunkering down.

Instead, it focuses on smart decisions about where we choose to live to reduce risk, the systems we embed ourselves in, and the ways we work with others to improve our odds.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/you-too-ca...

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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Climate ruggedization describes strategies that reduce risks while simultaneously growing future options and developing new capacities.

Personal ruggedization is the practice of making important decisions in a realistic context of planetary change.

alexsteffen.substack.com/p/ruggedizat...

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Alex Steffen's avatar Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social
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It's damn hard to get good advice about how to ruggedize our lives.

So much of what we hear in the media, in politics, even from experts themselves is outdated and unhelpful, full of ideas from a world before the crisis took hold.

alexsteffen.substack.com/p/old-thinki...

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