Meanwhile, what scientists have forecast would happen is happening: Permafrost is melting and releasing methane.
With all of the dithering about what to do about climate change, we may be at a point where we've dithered our way past the point where climate change can be mitigated and so we, and future generations, are going to be along for the ride. The so-called Greatest Generation, the Boomers, the Millennials and everyone in between will be reviled for centuries to come as the "Do Nothingers", the folks who stood around while the evidence mounted and just let it happen. And quite probably, certain last names will disappear from common usage, as they'll be too associated with the obstructionists who didn't care because they were too busy making a short-term profit at the expense of, well, every other living thing.
I'm thinking of this because a colleague just became a grandparent. Hell of a world we're leaving that kid.
I am 60 now and have 2 Great Grand kids to add to our brood. There were so many opportunities available when I was young and they no longer exist, not counting the stuff like Air and Water that seem to be limited now.
ReplyDeleteI myself wish the family would just stop and look at the mess instead of adding to it but it is their right to be procreating if they choose. Sad to me, I wouldn't want to grow up in 'this' mess. I had beaches and shooting and horse riding and hiking and stuff that are so hard to find now.
"What a World"
w3ski
A drought is weather, not climate.
ReplyDeleteThe depletion of ancient underground freshwater deposits (aquifers) and the saltening or erosion of once fertile soils is a bigger problem, along with desertification on the broder of deserts due to excessive grazing.
The only good thing I've seen come from this drought is that they're now reconsidering the exemption they gave the energy companies for groundwater pollution. They say that they did it a long time ago when nobody thought we'd ever need (or be able to get to) these secondary aquifers, but we've been fighting over water here for at least my whole life, and I'm 53 so that sounds like BS to me.
ReplyDeleteWe usually just steal the water from the northern watersheds, but they didn't get any snow this year either.
I spent May and June up near Lake Tahoe, and it looked seriously low. Then, when I heard the private jets arriving for Memorial Day weekend, I thought that maybe if enough rich people get inconvenienced enough something might happen. The produce won't do it, though. It'll just get more expensive when it has to be shipped from Mexico, and rich people won't care about that.
-Doug in Oakland
amazing changes to the growing season just south of James Bay, about 250 miles NE of Thunder Bay... warm enough now for corn and beans and nearly every vegetable crop... Go North Youngsters!
ReplyDeleteto add a little substance to mere assertion northern Ontario is now viable farming land http://www.opportunitiesnortheastontario.ca/index.php/opportunities/agriculture/
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