A world 3 to 5°C warmer than pre-industrial levels will be unrecognizable compared to today. The World Bank warns that with such a temperature increase, many parts of the world could not adapt.
Entire ecosystems will collapse, crops will fail, there will be extreme weather events of unprecedented scale and frequency, and sea-level rise will redraw coastlines and submerge major cities. The social and economic fabric of global civilization will stretch to its breaking point.
Here I describe four key strategies that towns and farms can implement to prepare for and adapt to an altered world. While these strategies alone cannot fully prepare us for the scale of the oncoming disruption, they represent crucial steps towards building resilience and maintaining some semblance of societal stability.
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