August
Update
As
I sit here on a cool foggy coastal afternoon, I'm reflecting on the
extreme heat and ferocious fires raging not too far inland. One
concern is the Carr fire is less than a mile from our friend's summer
place out at Lewiston, and moving in their direction. Scary! But
what is more discerning is the continued vehement denial by the few,
that human induced global warming, or climate change, or whatever you
want to call it, is not responsible. In spite of all the evidence,
scientific, political, and economic, this contrived denial is proving
to be the greatest “hoax” ever inflicted on humanity by a small
handful of powerful and greedy people. Not to argue here, but the
question that is never asked, and they never would answer is “what
if man-induced climate change is true?” The economic,
environmental, and social ramifications are enormous and almost
overwhelming, not so much for us, but for future generations, because
the extremes we are experiencing now will only get worse, leading to
far greater devastation
Reading
the news, we're seeing hundreds of fires across the US and Canada, as
well as devastating fires in Greece, Sweden...all over the world. I
just talked to a friend in British Columbia, and he is seeing
drought, dryness, tree deaths from insect infestations...all sorts of
worrisome issues. And yet the current powers and leaders blame the
radical environmentalists...the easy prey, who have prevented logging
and letting water run down our rivers to the ocean. Really?????
Watching
the national news shows record-breaking flooding in Pennsylvania, and
the whole east coast, as well as extreme climate phenomenon
through-out the world. And yet, the fossil fuel interest continue to
lie and spew their stupidity, greed, and disinformation. The
$2billion they have spent over tall those years could have gone into
a lot of positive solutions.
We
will reach a point very soon, where the economic costs and social
suffering overwhelm all of our budgets and infrastructure; and “we”
finally begin to address the causes and solutions to the problem. It
will be too late to stop the advancing changes we have already
initiated, but we will be forced to begin to do things to mitigate
future impacts.
As
I always have said...we cannot destroy our environment. But we can
change it to make human life more difficult, expensive, and
miserable.
Enough
said. I urge you to “PAY ATTENTION!!”
And
again, I encourage you to watch “After the Warming” on Utube.
This entertaining narrative visualizes the predictions made in the
1990 IPCC report. So far it is impressively pretty accurate.
PS:
The Carr Fire has been contained on the west side, so it no longer is
a direst threat our friends home! But again, it is only early
August.
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