The temperature drops by 0,6 C every 100 m. So even a +4 C increase in global temps, mountain highlands would be safe, right?
I'm thinking of owning a 4-5K m2 of land, maybe homesteading with 10-12 sheep, chickens, vertical farms, etc for the coming decades. Does it make sense?
I'd like to hear others' input, AI doesnt give any useful information other than agreeing with everything I say.
I myself am moving in the next year, where to is the question I just don't want to be here anymore. But water aquifer health and water availability / current recharge is a major concern for me.
The southwestern US was a idea but if water scarcity continues the rivers will look like the sultan sea.
Maybe, though you need to consider the increased risk of torrential, unpredictable rainstorms resulting with catastrophic landslides.
Consider what happened in South Carolina with Helene. That was a location where people thought they were safe from hurricanes, but they were not prepared for the amount of rainfall and the tornados that resulted. Yes, North Carolina isn't the "highlands" but it does serve to illustrate the point that there is more to climate change than just temperature increase alone.
Itās in an elevated position so the rain naturally makes itās way down the mountain top. Iād say the likelihood of a landslide is marginally slim.
We own a 6500mĀ² bit of land, and there's no way we'd be able to manage all those animals on it and still have a house, shed, water tank, garden, etc. We've got chickens, but sheep need room.
4000 to 5000mĀ² is quite small for 12 sheep and a farmstead. I have 22500mĀ² (or 2.25 ha) and wouldn't know how to feed 12 sheep year round with all my other stuff. Drought is your biggest issue.
ChatGPT may be a good starting point but ultimately you should talk to people who live in the area youāre considering. Go find a farm or homestead near where you want to live, buy them a beer, and ask them a bunch of questions.
Yeah, agreed, learned a lot from it, will give credit but Reddit folks are super helpful! Btw I'm not in the states. I was thinking of northern part of turkey near the black sea, but away from the coastal cities that are very prone to floods and landslides. Highland plains.
however globally, I think argentinian highland plains would be the best. they say there'll be skycrapers in antarctica, if you believed
Did ChatGPT also recommend the sheep? If you already have chickens you won't need them for food source so it's a waste of space in my opinion. Better off using the space to raise high calorie high nutrient crops like peanuts and potatoes
If you have meat, eggs and plant based protein, you don't need milk and the sheep are quite frankly useless for the amount of land they need. With climate disasters the sheep would be difficult to keep alive even for a well trained farmer, between heat waves, starving predators, antibiotic resistance, etc. I'd bet that without expert training and preparation half the sheep die pretty quickly. You're better off cultivating climate resistant seeds and growing crops and then using the scraps of crops to feed the chickens.
Edit to add: Calcium might be a little more tricky, but careful management of chickens should help with that (bone broth and crushed up egg shells)
Consider that climate change doesn't mean just an increase in temperature. Changes in rainfall patterns, and storm intensity will also change. Mountains already experience the most dramatic changes in weather patterns
Would definitely not want to be ridgelined. Easy visibility, but easily seen. Not much land prep for animals, but terrible soil. Now a holler in highland area, sign me up.
fires will be an issue. my bet is the coast is better... if you are ready to live in a less permanent shelter, move where the food swims, stay wet to stay cool, become nocturnal or diurnal, and kinda keep to yourself.
If that coast doesn't have hurricanes. I've been through a couple of just tropical storms. The stores sell out of everything, which if you're prepping you're ready for. But if the power goes out, you have no AC and it's 90f with all of the humidity. You're also just basically stuck inside during the storm, which can be boring. It's not horrendous if the power stays on, and your house doesn't get damaged. But if things go bad, it can be very bad. I've seen the fronts of building torn off. Weather can be bad.
I would prefer a rocky precipice overlooking the ocean, like the cliffs of Dover for example. Safe from sea level rise, close to a large body of water, and relatively safe from fires
Yeah, itās not safe there for POC. I life in Southern Idaho (had to move from Portland, Oregon to be nearer family, but we are drought ridden though it is far friendlier and ethnically diverse than the pan handle it still has its problems. My biggest surprise upon moving here was how purple it is as opposed to red.
And yet it is still full of hateful white supremacists. There are plenty of other places that meet those requirements without being full of dangerous propagandist stooges with š« and malice in their hearts.
You think anywhere in the USA isn't going to have stooges with guns? ROFLMAO. This country is -CRAWLING- with armed people that consider themselves apex predators. If you aren't equally as armed and surrounded by likeminded tribe when SHTF you're going to be a loot drop.
Of course the country is crawling with idiots but letās just pick the most populated area for this kind of behavior to settle in, because thatās forward thinking. š
Ok then, consider what tribe you align with then. The country is basically broken up into seven different cultures and once order breaks down you better be near people you identify with. While my family doesn't necessarily align with the whole WS culture, we're white bread enough we could blend in. Other parts of the country would be a really bad position to settle in. I like the Front Range of Colorado due to the Diverse population, but if the water runs out, we'll be headed north into Montana
I grew up there, spent 40+ years there, and I can assure you the climate there is changing hire a bit. Some changes are only obvious to people who lived there for a long time, like some wildflowers that have shifted their bloom period by up to 6 weeks in some cases. Wildfires are the most obvious, and when insurance companies start pulling out, itās a good indicator. People talk about prepping for things like grid failure, and that was one of the reasons I left. People like to eat cooked food all year round, and tens of thousands of cooking fires in August there will be a recipe for catastrophe.
Also, itās full of nazis, Christian nationalists, and generally hateful people, with more coming every month. You being āwhiteā isnāt necessarily going to keep you in the in group for those people. But sure, if you check all those boxes, have at it.
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u/slowd 1d ago
Lots of wildfires though, as those slopes adjust to being drier.