#ClimateDiary Keep on thinking of when Lauren in #ParableOfTheSower starts packing a backpack (with seeds etc), just in case they need to leave; and how she then tries to talk to her best friend about it, but this friend just can’t take it. Now in “unchartered territory” for #OceanTemperatures and the prospect of #ElNino kicking in already later this year, i do worry things might get pretty bad already this year; and have started to think (crazy i know!) about my own “backpack” packing 1/2
2/2 and also about how to even talk about it to my family. I just don’t know how to find the right words, and of course may just be completely caught in an alarmist social media bubble- maybe an impact of #ClimateDiary! And i have no idea whatsoever what kind of preparations we even could/should take - of course it’s not really about individual survival at all. But i do want to somehow at least talk about these fears about 2023-24 to those around me but can’t figure out how. Anyone else?
@pvonhellermannn I absolutely hear you and I’ve thought about this too, but for now at least I suspect my backpack is largely metaphorical. Any talk that strikes my husband as ‘prepping’ is a no go area, even since the pandemic buying extra food is a flashpoint. But having thought it through, I realise that it’s no good having a larder stuffed with tins when your neighbours are hungry and that it’s community preparation that is key.
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