I’m a farmer. I’d rather not get too specific on the internet, but I have an orchard and grow fruit. When I started planting, everyone from the old guys nearby to the extension office told me I was planting the wrong varieties. I chose what to plant thinking about how crazy our weather was going to get. Not only did I pick some non-standard varieties for the area, but I diversified way more than usual. It makes harvest a bit more of a pain because it doesn’t all come in at once, but it also means that I’m far less likely to lose my whole crop to bad weather. This year makes two years in a row where I’m feeling very good about my decisions. Last year, there were a few other farms in good spots that didn’t lose their whole crops. This year, nearly the whole damn county has nothing. I had a few losses to the spring-like winter followed up with the coldest freeze in decades and a later than usual freeze, but I’m doing business as usual.

And I may be living in a desert in 10 years and it’s all a wash anyways, but having a realistic view of climate change pays off.

10 $CAD for a pound of butter. Unbreathable air from forest fires, dry-parched everything… Hospitals reducing operating hours due to insufficient staff.

My family in North America just went through another heat dome, and now wildfire season has started early.
My in-laws in South America are being forced to buy bottled water because the government is adding saltwater into the system.
Where I live (Europe) is unseasonably warm and has been all year. I haven’t seen a single bee or butterfly this year, only flies.
Groceries here are more expensive every month, ostensibly because of the war in Ukraine.

Energy prices are ridiculous, food prices are ridiculous, and you just can’t get anything ‘good’ any more. Expecting a lot of heat records to be broken this summer. Locally (Nottingham, England) the high was 28C. The previous record high was 23C in 2021

I am still trying to work on solutions; carbon capture in particular.