How to Align Your Retirement with Global Warming
Global warming is here to stay. Let’s prepare.
If you’re anything like me, you think and plan long-term, and global warming should definitely be part of that equation. If you’re not like me at all — well, I hope this blog can help you be more strategic!
First things first: if you think global warming is a hoax (perpetrated by China, leprechauns, the lizard-people, etc.), then you should probably stop reading. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but as Douglas Adams (the author of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) once said,
I don’t accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view. My view is that the moon is made of rock. If someone says to me ‘Well, you haven’t been there, have you? You haven’t seen it for yourself, so my view that it is made of Norwegian Beaver Cheese is equally valid’ — then I can’t even be bothered to argue.
If the fire tornadoes in California, or the air being literally too hot for planes to fly in Arizona, or Cape Town with its 4.6 million residents almost running out water — if none of those things seem like the beginning of a very bad trend to you, well, this article won’t help you. Our planet used to be incredibly hot in the past, yes, but that…
