In the End, Climate Change Is the Only Story That Matters

[Uncle Joe]

While we watch the disembowelment of various lawyers in the employ of a former president* and wrap ourselves in the momentum of the upcoming midterm elections, the climate crisis—its time and tides—waits for no one. Every other story in our politics is a sideshow now. Every other issue, no matter how large it looms in the immediate present, is secondary to the accumulating evidence that the planet itself (or at least large parts of it) may be edging toward uninhabitability.

All summer, the main climate story was the worldwide drought. Reservoirs dried up, rivers shrank, huge rock walls showed “bathtub rings” as markers of where all the water used to be. Lake Mead gave up its forgotten mob victims, and rivers in the Balkans gave up Nazi ships scuttled almost 80 years ago, one step ahead of the Red Army. All of which was fairly interesting, but when you’re thirsty, archaeology is no substitute for water.

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Usually, Atlantic Canada gets battered by winter storms roaring in from the North Atlantic. Its encounters with tropical hurricanes usually consist of withstanding their remnants. At worst, a hurricane comes ashore in this region as a Category 2 storm, as was the case with Hurricane Juan. Even the legendary Nova Scotia Cyclone of 1873, which came up on roughly the same track as Fiona seems to be following, and which sank 1,200 boats and killed 500 people, probably came ashore as a Category 1 storm. If Fiona strikes as a Category 3 or 4, it will be a historic storm for that part of the world.

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To stand on the bluffs above the Chukchi Sea, looking down at a series of broken and ruined seawalls that have already failed to hold back the power of the ocean, and to consider that there are politicians in this country who are unwilling to do anything about the climate crisis, or who even deny it exists, is to wish they all could come and stand on these bluffs and look out at the relentless, devouring sea.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a41355745/hurricane-fiona-climate-change/

[Dysfunctional]

1. Nothing of consequence will be done to even slow it down to any measurable degree.

As I have written before, those that have, want more, and those that do not have, want at least as much as those that have.

[Uncle Joe]

2. I believe everything is relative and at some point the system will correct itself

or if it doesn't, the status quo; that being modern day human society will be corrected most likely in catastrophically adverse ways.

I also believe today's political realities and awareness are rapidly evolving in regards to the issue of climate change and not just because of the growing obvious price being extracted by mother nature but by the Emperor's clothes being removed from the preeminent political party; opposing acting on the real and present growing global threat along with a host other critical issues.

Furthermore if the Republicans are so concerned about vast quantities of immigrants pouring across the border, it shouldn't take too much of a stretch of imagination to spell out the consequences from wiping out Maslow's base for at least the middle portion of Earth.

[Duppers]

3. AMEN!