Last updated 12.2.25. (G)

Prologue

CCPARM means the "Climate Change Preparation, Adaptation, Resilience Building, and Migration Model or movement." The CCPARM section of our website contains our original CCPARM Model (also known as CCPAR). It covers everything you need to know to create a climate-change-prepared future and build climate-change-prepared communities. On our CCPARM pages, if you see the words "Universe One," all you need to know for now is that it is a special variation of the CCPARM model.

Additionally, several years ago, we helped cofound ClimateSafe Villages (CSV). It was designed to advance and use many parts of the CCPARM model found on these pages. CSV differs from the CCPARM model in that it provides more one-on-one individual support and interaction. 

To learn more about CCPARM after reading the following page, please review our CCPARM Guide here.

Introduction

The idea of CCPAR and Climate Safer Villages emerged because many people have come to realize that climate change is worsening and that they need to begin emergency preparations, adapt to changes, build resilience, and, in rare cases, consider migration to continue leading a somewhat stable and thriving life. Those same individuals also realized that preparing their homes or businesses is the first thing they must do, but it is not the last.

If one seeks to survive and thrive over extended periods after preparing their home and business as best as possible, it then becomes critical to build a village or community of local support that will have one's back when the worst of climate change hits the world. Individual preparation alone will not be enough to survive the later, more severe phases of climate change.

That is also why the concepts of building CCPARM and Climate Safer Villages emerged.

The big shift in our focus and how we want to achieve our CCPARM goals

For many years, at Job One, we focused more on migration for those in medium to high-risk areas and on building eco-communities in rural areas from scratch. (We now only recommend migrating if you are in a high-risk area and you are young.)

We have revised our long-term migration strategy because we are running out of time, with only 3 to 6 years remaining before climate change consequences begin to transition from dramatically increasing to exponentially increasing. That is not enough time for most people with limited resources to migrate and build homes or a community from scratch. Let alone implement all the additional climate-safe preparations and adaptations needed, such as wind power, solar power, water capture, a private well, and sewage treatment.

There is another crucial reason we have shifted our focus from migration and building rural eco-communities to "staying where you are right now and getting on with your emergency preparations, adaptations, resilience-building, permaculture gardening, adding solar, wind, and water capture systems, as well as achieving water independence and sewage independence." Since 2009, we have been educating tens of thousands of people about the dangers of climate change that are now unavoidable. We have encountered only six individuals who have actually migrated, with or without their families. Four of those individuals and families were climate change scientists who, in the most fundamental ways, knew what was going to hit humanity from escalating climate change and wanted to get their families into the safest possible places. The other two individuals were just people who had come across our information.

What that tiny, tiny number of migrants has taught us is an important practical fact. 99% of everyone who understands how bad climate change is really going to get is not going to migrate unless they are flooded out of their homes, burned out of their homes, smoked out of their homes, or their homes are blown down by extreme storms. And even then, many individuals who experience this will rebuild in the same place again.

This means that, given our limited remaining time before climate change consequences escalate exponentially, and it won't be easy to accomplish much of anything (much less find everything you need to protect yourself), the only practical strategy going forward is to strongly encourage people to do what they're going to do naturally at some point anyway.

Our new migration strategy is simple. Unless you are young and in a very high-risk climate change area, stay where you are and start building your emergency backup supplies immediately, making the necessary adaptations and taking your current location's resilience-building seriously.

Once you have taken care of your own home, family, and business with the necessary preparations, it will then be time to reach out into your existing local community, right where you are now, and build a local group of individuals who will have your back as things get as bad as you could imagine. You will need this group of people with diverse skills and resources to navigate the most severe levels of climate change that are on the horizon.

Another critical yet easily overlooked thing we have learned since 2009 is that any group working together to prepare for what's coming must consciously build a culture of reciprocity, cooperation, recognition, and honoring. What I mean is that preparing your home or business for the impact of climate change is challenging and costly, and it will first affect areas with medium to high risk.

Preparation, adaptation and resilience building alone is so difficult and costly that if your small group is not actively involved in reciprocally helping each other, recognizing every small achievement by every member of your group, cooperating wherever you can and honoring every success individually and publicly within your group, you will likely not build the group culture or the cohesion necessary to get you through even the first phase of emergency preparations, adaptations and resilience building. 

Of all the things mentioned above, one of the best ways to build a culture is through honoring, as Plato said best. What is honored in a culture will grow there." Plato

Now that you are familiar with our revised strategy for the future, please feel free to explore the many pages in the CCPARM section of our website for more information on what we are currently doing and what we hope to achieve with CCPARM and in coordination with CSV.