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The original was posted on /r/collapse by /u/Xamzarqan on 2024-10-26 15:26:16+00:00.
Original Title: Should I migrate to a more climatically secure area abroad or remain here? I live in SE Asia, a tropical region which will likely be totally screwed by climate change and collapsed in the next decades.
Asking because although I currently live in SE Asia (Bangkok, Thailand), I am planning to leave the country and move to possibly the Great Lake Areas, or some other more climatically secure regions in the future as I’m also dual American citizen.
The problem is that since I live in Thailand most of my life due to the fact all my immediate family are locals (I’m the only one born in the USA although I never lived there), I don’t really have any close connections or any places to stay outside the country. Though, I do have some distant relatives and friends in the West but I’m not close enough to them to just easily move abroad and stayed with them long term.
Because of that, I will have to find ways to earn money to leave the country and settle somewhere else (nevertheless, I don’t really have an exact clue where to move either), which due to my neurodivergency (high functioning /low support needs autism) makes it harder for me to achieve these goals (I never really have a proper job except this four month teaching contract which has already ended and a few internships, that’s it). Also my family owned a business here, which generates a lot of our income and act as a financial backup for us in case of unemployment. However, I’m not sure what to do with our property in the future when the climate apocalypse struck Thailand and the surrounding countries, killing billions and destroying cities and entire nations. I’m 28 years old. My undergrad and masters degree are in Sociology/Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies btw. I also have a teaching certificate so maybe I can become a teacher.
I mean Typhoon Yagi hit SE Asia hard this year and kill almost 1,000 in many countries. So as the planet rapidly heats up, we are going to see more deadlier and destructive natural disasters. Apparently, Bangkok, Jakarta, Dhaka, Ho Chi Minh City for examples, are predicted to become Atlantis by 2050 due to rising sea levels.
Actually my sister is doing her masters in Michigan right now. Should I use this as an opportunity to move and secure a land there? Although I really have no idea how to proceed to get there. I don’t know what jobs/career I can do. Shall I try to contact and join some agrarian village/intentional communities? But I don’t have any useful/pre-industrial skills to contribute as a useful member of some subsistence commune.
Although I have learnt that the Arctic warms 4x faster than the Equator, therefore, it looks like there are no 100% lifeboats in the end. But overall would the tropical/equatorial regions will still be more fked from climate change than the temperate/polar areas?
I don’t think the whole ASEAN/SEA including Singapore and far southern parts of China such as Hainan and other tropical/equatorial regions e.g. West-Central Africa and parts of East Africa, Persian Gulf e.g. Dubai, Indian subcontinent, Oceania/Pacific Islands, Amazon/most of Brazil/lowland Northern South America, Caribbean, Florida and Central America, etc. is safe long term due to heat waves, rising sea levels, wet bulb events, flash floods, droughts typhoons, earthquakes including tsunamis, crop failures, water shortages, mudslides, cyclones, famines, hurricanes, electric blackouts, warfare and conflict as a result of competition over resources and lands, resurgence of tropical diseases and parasites as the climate rapidly warms and modern healthcare and sanitation systems collapse.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not glorifying the US or other much more Northern latitude places as being better than Thailand/SE Asia or other tropical/equatorial places in terms of overall safety during the fall of civilization and after, but I think climate wise, the former (the West) is still safer than the latter.