Thread by @leashless

I have climate angst.

20 years ago, I figured out three things were not going to save us from climate change:

1) reducing consumption
2) renewable energy
3) social change

I started my lonely watch: planning how to protect 300m climate refugees.

I had no resources or support.

What have I gotten done in that 20 years?

1) hexayurt.com ultra cheap housing
2) resiliencemaps.org *excellent* design matrix for infrastructure
3) thecuttingmachinery.com psychospiritual support method
4) mattereum.com seeds of a resource allocator

(I did other stuff too - helped launch Ethereum, worked on pandemic flu and nuclear bombs, but anyway)

I think we've got less than ten years before large, populous regions have to be evacuated in summer due to uninhabitable heat.

You just have to relocate the entire population.

And that's what I'm here for: I'm the "relocate the entire population" guy.

I did the planning work on my own *because nobody would help me* - not the UN, not the Red Cross, not the Department of Defense

Nobody wanted to do advanced planning for helping hundred of millions move

We are getting close now. I have two or three major challenges left:

1) design of clothing - cheap, durable travel gear for the permanent refugee class

2) design of luggage - this is all important

3) land access - a new class of Special Economic Zones, New Life Zones. Cities!

I as an individual can solve these problems to the "aha!" point, where the critical insight occurs, and the rest can be specified closely enough that engineers can solve the production problems: I don't have the resources to present detailed, costed critical path analysis.

But all these systems are made from things which have a retail price in the industrial supply chain, with small adjustments here and there which would not radically increase the price.

In short: real engineering, not fancy unobtanium pipe dreams.

We could actually do this.