Here's an email I sent to family and friends. We all need to get serious about this subject. Tick-tock---
And that's not even considering methane emissions, which are increasing exponentially. Methane is multiple times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas.
Time for an attitude & lifestyle change.
Climate Change is now locked in for decades. All we can do is work toward making sure it doesn't get TWICE (or more) as bad as now.
In the mid-1970's when I lived next to Puget Sound, the highest temp in summer was about 85 degrees. 14 yrs ago, it reached 100 degrees more than a few times during summer.
15 yrs ago, when I lived on 38 acres near Red Bluff, CA, 114 degrees during summer was not uncommon. All the above was prior to the current, fairly rapid thawing of permafrost tundra in Arctic regions... which is releasing tons of methane into the atmosphere.
Bottom line: if we (& that means all of us, not just tree-huggers like me:) don't change our lifestyle, our overconsumption, our agriculture, & industrial production, Nature will. That's guaranteed. If you truly care about your kids, grandkids, & their future kids, do all you can to support a shift to some version of Ecological Economics.
Trump & Crew will be gone before long. It's time to repair the damage they've done to our habitat, and to our future. It's also time to watch Biden like a hawk. He's so much better than Trump, but firmly in the back pocket of the Financial Sector, and not exactly Mr. Sustainability.
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Not only my opinion. Be Well
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