Climate Change: We're Protecting Ourselves

The people of the West Coast of the USA and Canada, are taking action, to create/enforce the Western Wall, and adding cross-border coordination to the effort.

Just in case another Trump gets into office.

B.C. Premier John Horgan, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and California Gov. Gavin Newsom inked the deal Thursday at the Presidio of San Francisco park. The Memorandum Of Understanding focuses to accelerating and expanding efforts to reduce greenhouse gases and address the impacts of climate change.

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Ynotisay · M

It's been an interesting to see how CA, OR and WA have come together and coordinated on a variety of issues. The phrase "Western Wall" is a good one. If shit were to go really south with a fascist takeover, I could see those three states pushing back in dramatic fashion. WA, in particular, definitely has it's militia presence but I think overall the people aren't buying what backwards-thinkers are selling.

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Ynotisay · M

@SW-User I've been in the general area but never Sequim. Hadn't heard about their mayor. Holy shit. How did that happen? Good to see how people stood up against it but still. That's just nuts.

Northwest · M

@SW-User Sequim is the met-amphetamine capital of the Northwest. I know they filmed the vampire series there, but what good is a vampire without its fangs. Port Angeles is beautiful (same with Sequim) - pronounced squimm.

SW-User

what good is a vampire without its fangs

Now there is a book/film series waiting to be made ... Tweaklight ...

@Northwest

SW-User

It would be interesting to see CA, OR, WA and BC (perhaps with some other additions, e.g., HI, unless HI, Guam, et al., gained complete Polynesian independence) form a new country ... maybe call it Pacifica or similar ... not sure how it would work with an eastern flank (e.g., New York, New England), but that's not unimaginable, other countries have "exclaves"

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SW-User

my thinking is that it would explode with people moving there

So the time to figure out where new people would go would be before Pacifica is created ... wonder if vertical cities in the Inland Empire for instance would have the least environmental impact (even the solar farms there seem to impact wildlife though) and the least natural disaster vulnerability ... and it seems some environmentally-friendly version 2.0 of desalination plants would need to be designed and spun up quickly, en masse ... for one thing dependence on the Colorado River should no longer be assumed or desired, and droughts, wildfires happen even in WA and BC.

There would need to be some sort of military agreement given the number of huge military installations

Moreover, I wonder if Pacifica would be grandfathered into nAto, NATO would be redefined, or some Pacific equivalent to NATO would be formed

@Ynotisay

Northwest · M

@Ynotisay I'm a frequent visitor to Idaho, and demographic changes, radiating out of Boise (education, tech penetration, etc.) is infusing more blue into the state. Prior to the education infusion, that came with tech's domination of Washington, the state was red. Sam for Oregon. Both states are now blue.

I certainly would not want to see our country divided, but I want nothing to with the MAGA crowd.

Northwest · M

@SW-User We're experiencing a dry summer/fall. There was hardly any rain in August/September in Western WA and BC.

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