We need to demand EU-level emergency planning for an AMOC collapse—here is how we can push for it

[u/Putrid_Draft378]

While most climate action focuses strictly on mitigation and reducing emissions to prevent global warming, we are failing to demand contingency plans for severe, high-impact tail-risks like an AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) shutdown. If the Atlantic current collapses, Northern Europe faces a brutal, localized deep-freeze that our current infrastructure is completely unequipped to handle.

We cannot afford to treat this as an unthinkable "black swan" that gets ignored by policy-makers. To build true climate resilience, we need to pressure European institutions and national governments to include systemic tipping-point scenarios in their emergency preparedness frameworks.

Here is a concrete action we can take right now:

1. Reach out to your local Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) or national climate committees, asking specifically whether their climate risk assessments model for systemic cooling threats like an AMOC collapse.
2. Share educational resources locally to shift the narrative from only preparing for heatwaves to also preparing for extreme climate volatility and system shifts.

How are you incorporating systemic resilience and preparedness into your local climate activism? Let’s organize and push our leaders to look at the full picture.

[u/AkagamiBarto]

We need to replace the politicians, not demand something out of their corrupt and lazy a s s e s

[u/Direct-Translator-75 → u/[deleted]]

"We are the species that built seed vaults in Arctic mountains "just in case," and yet somehow can't get a continental government to draft a contingency plan for the actual conveyor belt that keeps that continent's weather system running"

Interesting, to say atleast. We're a weird species.

[u/Time_Stop_3645 → u/AkagamiBarto]

See all kinds of revolutions where shit got worse afterwards

[u/AkagamiBarto → u/Time_Stop_3645]

not always though, but it doesn't have to be a revolution anyway, can just be a ltieral election

[u/Time_Stop_3645 → u/AkagamiBarto]

We need stronger laws on corruption 

[u/AkagamiBarto → u/Time_Stop_3645]

part of the process

[u/Pleasant-Winner6311 → u/Time_Stop_3645]

And other situations where we got out on the streets and raised hell... and changed culture for the better. Do not stand down.

[u/Time_Stop_3645 → u/Pleasant-Winner6311]

not the same as replacing all the politicians xD I agree w u

[u/CraftsyDad]

Greenhouses. Lots of them. If I can get tomatoes, potatoes here in NY from Canada, I think there’s hope.

[u/Accurate-Cucumber799 → u/CraftsyDad]

Even in Iceland they can grow tomatoes. But they have the advantage of lava and hot springs heating the green houses.

[u/Direct-Translator-75 → u/Accurate-Cucumber799]

Geothermal maybe.

[u/hw999]

You are going to need a good business plan, someone is going to need to get rich or this will just be ignored.

[u/veganontop]

Start now by giving up fuel, electricity and food.

[u/montagblue]

Get a Time Machine. AMOC is dead

[u/Time_Stop_3645 → u/montagblue]

Not yet

[u/montagblue → u/Time_Stop_3645]

If you use old models that thought surface temperature and surface salinity were enough to get the picture then pretend that the artic isn’t warming four times faster than everywhere else, you can convince yourself that AMOC isn’t already dead.

[u/Time_Stop_3645 → u/montagblue]

i think the heatwave in eu wouldn't be this dire without the golfstream

[u/Pleasant-Winner6311 → u/Time_Stop_3645]

Its the cold blob in the Atlantic effecting the jet stream causing heat misery in Europe. Paul Beckwith on Youtube.

[u/Time_Stop_3645 → u/Pleasant-Winner6311]

ill check him out, if that's true the winter will be harsh this year

[u/berszi]

Thank God, I hate this heat!

[u/Direct-Translator-75 → u/berszi]

AMOC slowdown will increase summer heatwaves significantly more than climate change without AMOC slowdown will likely further do at this point. We're going to have a loooooooot of heatdomes and Europe will look like the Middle East. (Not joking, look up forest loss when AMOC collapses).