That’s the key question for the survival of the species. Reading an excellent article about why we keep ignoring climate change and I came across this...
For starters, it lacks the absolutely critical component—the “me” component. “Nobody wakes up in the morning and looks at the longterm climate forecast,” says David Ropeik, an international consultant on risk perception and communication, formerly with the Harvard School of Public Health. “They ask what the weather is today, where I live, and how it’s going to affect me.”
But the thing is I DO! Every day I wake up and I think this isn’t normal. This isn’t right. It all feels wrong. I’ve been feeling this for about 3 years now. At first questioningly. “Does it feel strangely a little too hot today?” To more recently, “this makes no sense, this is nuts. It’s summer heat in October and there hasn’t been a break basically since June”.
And now scientist are saying we’re 12 years away from irreversible calamity. Saying this just months after the double (quadruple?) barrel hurricane+typhoon insanity of the late summer/fall/whatever. I for one do not feel like any of this is OK, or is going to be without sh!ttons of effort. My wife and I will be 50 when 2030 hits. Sounds like It is gonna get super crazy F’ing real in our golden years.
We have the technology. The knowhow, the ability to drastically cut back and asap quit the carbon addiction. Let’s fix this sh!t! Tokenize it. Humanize it. Revolutionize it. But we gotta get going quick. Cause a dozen years ain’t nearly long enough... especially for distracted-ass humans.
Let’s wake up tomorrow and push for change.
Yours With The Fear,
Doug
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