Last updated 3.12.26. (G)
Job One for Humanity is a nonprofit climate change think tank and risk assessment organization founded in 2008. It is independent, 100% publicly funded, and uncensored by any government or corporation. Please note that many of the climate change adaptation strategies on this page will also help mitigate the negative effects of the growing threat of global collapse from the polycrisis. (The global polycrisis is defined on this page.)
Prologue
The Job One for Humanity Climate Change Plan is practical, compelling, and comprehensive. To begin, select one of the Plan's four parts that best fit your current circumstances.
"By working on the action steps of our Job One for Humanity Climate Change Solutions and Resilience Plan, you are doing something noble and beautiful. You are not only acting to protect yourself and those you love from avoidable suffering, but also helping to reduce suffering and save the lives of billions of others. In working on the plan below you will become a true climate change hero or heroine and a climate change educator." Lawrence Wollersheim
The Job One Climate Change Resilience and Recovery Plan for Personally Adapting to and Surviving Climate Change and Its Many Interconnected Consequences
Our climate change plan below is a self-motivated, self-directed, do-it-yourself (DIY) system. However, we are always happy to answer your questions or provide any assistance you may need while you work through the various parts of your climate change plan. If you have questions or need any assistance, email us at ([email protected]).
As climate change impacts continue to accelerate, we strongly recommend that you do not rely on your local, state, or national government to protect you. As always, you will be solely responsible for your climate change emergency preparations, adaptations, resilience-building, and, if applicable, climate relocation or managed retreat.
Because our governments have waited far too long to act effectively, and many climate change consequences are now unavoidable, if you live in a medium- to high-risk climate-change zone, we generally recommend starting with Part 1. If you do not live in a medium to high-risk area for global warming, most individuals should begin with Part 2.
About Part 1 of the Job One Plan: Emergency preparations for the climate change consequences we can no longer avoid
Learn how to best prepare yourself, your family, and your business for the soon-arriving and unavoidable 20 worst consequences of global warming. Everyone needs to have basic emergency preparations in place to cope with the continually emerging and inevitable consequences of climate change. Part 1 also contains the Climate Change and Global Warming Relocation, Migration, and Managed Retreat Manual.
To start Part 1 of the Job One Plan now, click here or click the Preparing for Emergencies image below. You can work on the other steps as you work on the steps of Part 1
About Part 2 of the Job One Plan: Adaptation strategies for the climate change consequences we can no longer avoid
Here, you will learn about wise local, regional, and state political actions and the best individual actions to adapt to what global warming consequences are now unavoidable, as well as how to reduce your fossil fuel use to become more sustainable, to help do your part to slow and lessen the 20 worst consequences of global warming.
By itself, Part 2 will not save us from the harshest, now unavoidable, consequences of our government's past inactions, but it will help slow global warming and move us in the right direction for the future.
To start Part 2 of the Job One Plan now, click here. This step will take some time to complete, including all its sub-steps. However, while working on it, you can also work on the other action steps of Part 1.
About the Critical Part 3 of the Job: Work together and use any influence you can to get our global governments and politicians to radically and immediately make the required global fossil fuel use reductions
Suppose you already have connections with real direct influence on government politicians, or you do have indirect connections with real influence on politicians through celebrities, ultra-wealthy corporations, philanthropies, ultra-wealthy individuals, or national intelligence agencies. In that case, we recommend you begin the more challenging and often frustrating Part 3.
The necessary mass-mobilization actions for politicians to take to prevent humanity's near-total die-off are found only in Part 3 of the Job One Plan. It contains what our politicians absolutely must do if we are to have any real chance of avoiding the early stages of near-total die-off over the next 50 to 70 years.
Unfortunately, only politicians, intelligence agencies, ultra-wealthy corporations, philanthropies, and individuals currently possess sufficient direct power or influence to enact the challenging government-driven actions outlined in Part 3 of the Job One Plan. Only their actions will reduce greenhouse gas emissions to (or close to) the critical 2026 global fossil fuel reduction target levels, then to carbon neutrality and net zero, in time to save us from a mass die-off and extinction.
Only Part 3 of the Job One Plan, executed successfully, will eventually return us to the safe atmospheric carbon levels of 350 - 270 parts per million [ppm]. (We are at about 429 ppm carbon now.)
The primary action steps described in Part 3 cannot be successfully achieved by individuals with little direct influence over politicians, intelligence agencies, and the 1% of ultra-wealthy corporations, philanthropies, and individuals.
Part 3 focuses exclusively on a single, painful, and pressing reality of global warming and the associated extinction emergency. We must make immediate, radical, and costly reductions in our global fossil fuel energy use and generation, which can only be achieved through mass mobilization, government-driven, government-enforced, and government-penalized new laws and actions. This page describes how radical and immediate those global fossil fuel cuts must be.
Part 3 is the most critical part of the Job One Plan if we, your children, and future generations are to have a livable future.
Suppose we are unable to execute this step successfully without further delays. In that case, there is no realistic hope of preventing global warming from escalating to a level that could lead to mass human die-off, or even to near-total extinction.
To start Part 3 of the Job One Plan now, click here or click the government building image below. Part 3 of the Job One plan even includes a Plan B section for governments to implement as a "all is lost" backup in case we cannot stop global warming in time to save most of us.
About Part 4 of the Job One Plan: Our last-chance Climate Justice Now strategy is to get our politicians to secure our governments' commitment to reducing global fossil fuel use before it is too late.
Because of the painful but true reality that our politicians and governments have thus far continually failed to fix climate change, we must focus on bypassing them and their massive failure. Wherever applicable, we must also begin the Climate Justice Now program. If you have suffered climate change damage and loss, or you know someone who has, the Climate Justice Now program is a powerful tool to push forward the global fossil fuel reductions needed. As the Climate Justice Now program builds enough momentum, our disinformed, compromised, or cowardly politicians will act, and this detailed program for effective government climate action on climate change will finally be able to be completed.
Unless you have direct personal influence over a politician or a group of politicians, we strongly recommend starting with our Climate Justice Now program to build the momentum needed for our politicians and governments to act. The best news is that if we successfully execute Parts 3 and 4 of the Job One Plan on time, some of humanity and many other species will survive the global warming and climate change emergency.
For those who have already suffered climate change consequences and damages, and need financial restitution from those who are causing climate change
Suppose you have experienced climate change-related damages to your home, business, or farm. In that case, you'll need to begin a successful lawsuit against all related parties that caused your damage as soon as possible. There are wealthy fossil fuel and associated companies that have either directly caused the climate change emergency and the damages you have experienced, or that should have informed you of the relevant climate change risks!
The number of court cases related to the global climate crisis and its resulting damages has doubled since 2015, bringing the total to over 2,000, according to a report led by European researchers last year. More than two dozen US cities and states are suing big oil, alleging the fossil fuel industry knew for decades about the dangers of burning coal, oil, and gas and actively hid that information from consumers and investors. Several of the states have already been successful in making the fossil fuel cartel pay for the costs the state has had to put out for climate change damages.
If you have just experienced a climate change-related extreme weather event involving any heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes and cyclones, flooding, rain bombs, wind storms (Derechos), dust storms, wildfire smoke events, unseasonable cold spells, and abnormal unseasonal weather and, you need to begin the process for financial recovery and restitution by reading this page as soon as possible due to time limitations on filing for restitution from harmful acts. You can do this while you start the other parts of the Job One plan. (This page will lead you to successful law firms handling this damage recovery specialty.)
It is time to recover from any change-related damages you, your home, business, farm, or local or state government may have experienced using successful law firms specializing in this area. Click here if you need to start recovering your financial losses from the perpetrators of climate change.
To start part 4 of the Job One Plan, click here or the puzzle image above.
Optional Part 5: Additional Support for Part One of the Job One Plan for after you get going
The staff at Job One for Humanity has recently helped to cofound a new nonprofit organization called ClimateSafe Villages. This organization was designed to better support and prepare (Parts 1 and 2 of the Job One Plan) people for what's coming with the climate. It also helps them adapt and build greater climate resilience in their homes, businesses, and communities.
At ClimateSafe Villages, hundreds (soon to be thousands) of individuals are supported in an online community to complete the necessary preparations for the climate change emergency, adaptation, and resilience-building. Good support has been shown to account for 90% of the reasons people succeed in challenging tasks. (You will be given more information about ClimateSafe Villages when you start your part one emergency preparations.)
Please remember to become a member of Job One for Humanity to access all the benefits described on this page.
The Simple Logic Behind the Job One for Humanity Adapt and Survive Plan
If you are looking for prudent actions to survive and thrive through the coming crises for as long as possible, the Job One for Humanity action plan was developed for you. It is based on the simple logic that if we do not come close to the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets when faced with unavoidable mass die-off by mid-century and a highly probable near-total extinction event before the end of the 21st century, it is best to use your remaining time and energy wisely. A wise use of remaining time and energy would include:
1.) Make your remaining time as safe, fulfilling, meaningful, and sustainably comfortable as possible for as long as you can (Parts 1 and 2 of the Job One Plan).
2.) Doing everything within your power to prevent near-total to near-total extinction and to save and salvage whatever you can of humanity and civilization for as long as you can --- instead of doing nothing and losing everything --- even sooner! (Parts 3 and 4 of the Job One Plan.)
A Climate Change Emergency Summary Overview
This brief overview is designed for those who do not wish to know the details of how or why the climate change emergency occurred, or the underlying science behind the facts and statements presented below. Read this full climate change facts article to see the hows, whys, and detailed science causing the climate change emergency.
The most critical quick facts on our current climate change emergency and condition are:
1. For over 60 years, humanity has failed to reduce escalating global warming and climate change. Unfortunately, as a consequence of squandering those six-plus critical decades, humanity will experience an unavoidable and massive die-off, with about half of humanity dying by about 2050.
2. Because humanity squandered those six-plus decades, from now until about 2031, humanity will also experience a dramatic increase in the severity, frequency, and size of global warming-related climate change consequences. After 2031, these consequences will increase exponentially in severity, frequency, and size.
3. Given the previous two climate change emergency facts and the realization that humanity is losing the climate change battle, individuals and businesses worldwide in medium—to high—risk climate change areas should immediately become involved in climate change-related emergency preparations, build adaptive climate change resilience in their homes and businesses, or migrate where necessary.
If you have read enough and want to start on your climate change emergency preparation, adaptive climate change resilience building, or migration actions:
Click here for the emergency preparation information you will need.
Click here for the adaptive climate change resilience-building information you will need.
Click here for the necessary migration information. (Our extensive migration and other emergency-essential details are in our Member section. It is easy to become a member.)
If you do not believe the above three climate change facts, please read this article on climate change facts, and you will discover why the above three statements are painfully correct. Once you have read the article on climate change facts, continue reading below. There is much valuable information not covered in this summary overview.
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In Conclusion
You now have all you need to select where to start the Job One Plan! For your future safety and the future of humanity and our civilization, please start with one or more parts of the Job One for Humanity Plan that best suits your current circumstances!
After you have completed the action steps of the Job One Climate Change Resilience Plan, please email us at manage@JobOneforHumanity and let us know how you are progressing. What you say or have learned may be essential to inspiring, supporting, and encouraging others in our monthly newsletter.
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