Thank you for sharing your thoughts and fears—everyone. I feel your pain—it is mine as well…The only useful idea I have come up with is, at the grassroots level, to form neighborhood garden guilds, where people reach out to their neighbors within walking distance and arrange periodic gatherings around potluck dinners, each with an educational component—where they take turns teaching one another useful knowledge and skills for growing their own food in their backyards and adapting to warmer, more chaotic climates as best they can. If folks form garden guilds now, they will be better able to collaborate and take care of each other when the inevitable coming disasters strike—and at the same time, they will be less reliant on fossil fuels and other large-scale infrastructure such as money or electricity—and at the same time, they will be rebuilding damaged topsoil and sequestering carbon. So Garden Guilds must go hand in hand with the study, practice, and propagation of Permaculture. This is the best adaptation mechanism I’ve come up with yet. Feel free to start your own Garden Guild, wherever you are, and let me know how it goes!