Building My Personal Anti-Resilience
I want to catch the first wave of deaths when climate change comes to my neighborhood
I want to strengthen my anti-resilience so that I can be sure to be one of the first ones to die when climate change destroys my neighborhood. I don’t want to live without my comfortable lifestyle. And oh boy, do I have a comfortable life!
Recently retired, I live in a nice two-story house in a redwood forest. Nature is always there right outside the floor-to-ceiling windows in my cathedral-ceiling living room. I have a good retirement income and healthy savings.
Speaking of healthy, I am healthy, and so is my life partner.
I enjoy all the comforts of modern industrial civilization: Hot and cold running water, indoor plumbing, central heating, refrigerator, washing machine and dryer, a robot vacuum cleaner and another robot for scrubbing the kitchen tile floor. Computers, smart phones, wide-screen television, wireless earbuds, and special wireless earbuds to help me sleep. Electric vehicle. Toilet paper, Kleenex, paper towels. Soylent.
A big truck comes to haul away my trash every week. I shop for groceries once a week at one of several nearby supermarkets. Everything else I need is delivered by Amazon.
Once the electricity and the internet go off, propane deliveries don’t arrive, the water stops running, and the grocery store shelves are bare, I don’t want to be resilient. I don’t want to live without my comfortable lifestyle, and I don’t know how to anyway. Phooey on learning survival skills, I’m too old for that. At that point, I’m done. I just want to die.
I hope some brigands come to take my stuff and kill me so I don’t have to do it myself.
If I’m lucky, I might die before climate change or economic collapse comes to get me. What steps I can take right now to increase the odds of that, or at least to reduce my resilience? Here are some ideas:
- Take up smoking
- Stop exercising
- Eat lots of junk food
- Stop wearing seatbelts
- Distance myself from relatives and friends
- Also my neighbors
- When my dear kitty dies, don’t get another pet
- Avoid reading articles about building my resilience
- Always be contemplating the sweet oblivion of death so that I am ready to welcome it when the time comes
Please add your own suggestions in the comments. Thank you!
