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Yes, I Get It, It's Hot Out There

Not where I live, but last summer, we recorded the first ever two days of 100+ heat. Onion crops literally cooked before they could be harvested and our Northwest forests burned. Now it's Europe's turn.

Our planet is in distress. Please become an environmental activist. Advocating for zero emission energy is not a communist plot. It is not an attempt by the LGBTQ cabal to turn your grandma into a Lesbian either.

It is common sense. Even if you do not have kids, you might some day, and you may want to leave the planet in a better shape than we you arrived into it.

Yes, there may be some cataclysmic event that may cause damage, but what we know for sure, is that we're doing IS causing damage, to the point where we may have reached the point of no return.

This is NOT about right, left or center politics. It is about common sense.

There's war in the Ukraine and the Covid economic disaster of a "bow wave", but it does not mean we should stop doing the right thing. When your house is on fire, you don't stop first to fix a leaky faucet.
Graylight · 51-55, F
Climate is changing. Undeniable.
Man is causing it. Irrelevant but undeniable.
Unfortunately, man tends toward chaos, not order. Undeniable.

Every known discipline in science has been able to measure climate change and we understand that we may right now be beyond the point where we can substantially change anything. We talk and strategize about initiative, alternative energies, regulations, cutbacks. And then we heat our coffee in the microwave, get into our fully fueled car and blast the A/C all the way to work. We don't stop manufacturing plastics; we simply put prettier labels on them or offer thinner packaging.

When a person is bleeding from an open wound in their neck, don't bother taking their pulse. We either act in a monumental and coinciding shift or we die. And we will die. We will gaze up at the rain-filled sky with mouths agape wondering how we came to drown.
Northwest · M
@Graylight Change, at this point, must be implemented top down, as I have no hope the people who elected Manchin will give a damn.
Graylight · 51-55, F
@Northwest No, not even just within the US. Without a unified, all-or-nothing approach on a global scale, all measures will fail. This is not conjecture.

Reduce, re-use, recycle. In that order. From the microscopic to the macro. We can barely scratch the very surface of the last tenet.
windinhishair · 61-69, M
I don't understand why people who call themselves "Christians" aren't environmentalists. If they believe they have been given a great gift by God for man's use, they should want to do everything to honor the gift and preserve it for future generations.
Graylight · 51-55, F
@windinhishair Good question.
I recall ten days of fire,, that burnt a decades worth in central Oregon

Only A fool fights in a burning house
I see a lot of folks arranging the deck chairs on the titanic
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