Stephan:   It's pretty clear that nothing by way of serious climate change remediation is going to happen in the United States, or much of the rest of the world because short-term greed simply trumps all other considerations. My takeaway from this conclusion is that local communities and individuals are going to have to prepare for it themselves. This is easier to say than do. Even here on the island where the community has a long tradition of social activism, it is proving very difficult to get people off their asses to do the work that needs to be done. As a result, I think Puerto Rico, the Virgins, Houston, Florence, and California are the new normal, and I urge my readers to begin to plan seriously for what their community, and they, themselves can do to maintain their quality of life. The alternative is disaster, and sleeping under a tinfoil emergency blanket on the floor of the gym with nothing left to you but the clothes on your back.