Most replies here are going to suggest embracing the suck and making the best of something (changing patterns) that you have no immediate control over. I agree. I'd also assert that there's damn little humankind can do to slow the churn over the next few decades; which is going to suck for coming generations, even if they have nothing to compare their world to besides pictures of the past.

That said, think small, make improvements where you can; they add up. Save the bees: encourage town-sponsored apiaries, planting wildflowers on town esplanades to attract/nourish them. Encourage town-sponsored advocacy against lawn pesticides to encourage earthworms, which are also disappearing. Its the little things in the foodchain that need protecting the most.

Protection from ticks? Let chickens and ginuea fowl free-range :)

Also, bear in mind that for every opportunity lost another is gained. Some parts of the State that were zone 5 will become zone 6 and more suited for horticulture; hardly a net-positive for what's lost but better than nothing.