(opinion) Countries from Siberia to Australia are burning: the age of fire is the bleakest warning y

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1. Prepare! Repent! Bury your dead!

Think hard about the risks you take. Seashore? Lakefront vacation home? House in the woods? What does security mean to you? Escape or disaster will be expensive. Prioritize your possessions, memories, and secure their longevity.

The book I go to for perspective on what to expect? "A Distant Mirror" by historian Barbara Tuchman. The century of the Black Death and the Hundred Years War. Whole towns disappeared. The wealthy fled the cities or holed up indoors and inocculated their children with silver spoons. Flagellists traveled in bands to bring Christian penetance to the masses, beating themselves with whips. In some places there were not enough healthy people to bury the dead.