Is it the fear of AI and automation, or fascist laws that severely restrict freedom, or is it about future wars, hunger or a worsening climate?

  • Lemming421@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    18 days ago

    In the UK I’d suggest anyone who owns their own home get solar panels, a battery and some form of air conditioning (if not a full heat pump/boiler replacement) ASAP.

    You can’t directly stop the government doing terrible things, but you can dramatically slash your own energy bills and make sure you can survive heat waves in comfort.

  • notsosure@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    18 days ago

    +++ Climate change is going to lead to more healthcare challenges and will lead to increased cost of living (insurance, foodstuffs , energy). Switch to solar energy, lead a more modest life with local products (support local producers) become a vegetarian, lead by example. +++ More international conflict: Russia/Nato states, USA/China, China/APJ, Africa. Make sure passport is up to date, look at options to quickly leave. Buy local produce, stock up water and food. +++ AI may lead to a stock market crash. Diversify your savings (you should do that anyway). It will lead to shifts in the job market (like the steam engine, the internet). Adapt or become irrelevant. +++ States are becoming more rightwing / fascist. Be politically active, vote for the right party, change the party and system from within, donate to the right projects, speak out, use the skills you are good at to make a change. +++ Enjoy life, it could well be the best is already behind us. Be kind, be friendly, help people. Have a plan.

    • LittleMouse@lemmy.worldOP
      41·
      18 days ago

      Make sure passport is up to date, look at options to quickly leave.

      Very few will be able to afford to flee anywhere, and in most cases, the fugitives may not only fail to flee fascism, but will be poorer than they were when they left their homes.

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
    3·
    18 days ago

    Comparison is the thief of joy they say. So if you’re worse prepared than me I can make that thief work for me by comparing myself to your unprepared ass while we hide from skynet.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
    3·
    18 days ago

    The only certainties are people will continue to become poorer and the Earth is going to get hotter.

    So, I’m saving my money, making sure my pantry is full, and I have a couple of external power sources to help me get through power outages.

  • shameless@lemmy.world
    31·
    18 days ago

    Just gonna have some kids and gonna focus on my own life and what small things around me I can make a difference in. Caring for friends/family etc.

    • velma@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      18 days ago

      That’s really lovely and feels good, too. Really helps focus what’s most important these days. Wishing you all the luck for your goals to be met :)

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
    1·
    15 days ago

    1. That one white guy who wears shorts during winter and that one white girl who wears weater during summer will die of heatstroke and hypothermia, respectively; and we too will all suffer under climate change.

    2. Chinese EVs.