Dealing with climate change

I passed high school chemistry and physics, so 

I am aware that sustained released of carbon from

our fossil fuel energy systems is causing the 

climate to change.  That means simply that the 

weather patterns we have been relying on for the past several hundred years are now changing.  This means that certain areas of the planet that have been habitable for a long time, may not be so in the future.  It also means that certain zones of agriculture that we have been relying on for quite sometime may no longer be fruitful in the future.  This means that we might want to consider adapting to the changing conditions in advance instead of doing nothing and just waiting to see what happens later on. 

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Specifically, one of the things that we will likely be confronting in the near future in America is reflected in the following "heat map".

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​Obviously, we do not know for certain if this will happen, but there is a reasonable likelihood that it will.  So what should we do?  Should we ignore this, or plan for the future?

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I say that we plan for this contingency.  This means cutting down fossil fuel usage in a reasonable manner when we can and replacing it with sources that will reduce the effects of carbon on the weather patterns.  And, beyond that, we also might want to plan for internal population migration in advance.  If the coastlines of America continue to heat up and sea levels continue to rise, we might find large areas of United States to be rendered uninhabitable.  If so, we should consider planning in advance for those internal population migration by designing the cities of the future today.  

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