calimary
calimary's JournalAll it does is make me question what he's trying to hide.
Hey, we’ve got that in OUR White House ALREADY! Why do we want another one?
What also struck me was a look at the African continent.
I can remember, in geography class, when the Sahara took up a large part of the northern half of Africa. But not all. It was a wide strip that extended from the Atlantic coast to the Red Sea. There was green at its northern edge along the Mediterranean, and bordering below - across the widest part of the land mass. The “ice cream scoops loaded into and spilling over the top of ice cream cone” - if you will. It’s not like that anymore. That whole horizontal part of the continent is ALL DESERT now. Up to the Mediterranean Sea shore, all the way down INTO the “ice cream cone” part. The Sahara has expanded, widened drastically, as the jungle areas to the south slowly recede.
I find that FUCKING TERRIFYING.
Sadly, that's IT. Right there.
I was saying years ago that all the jobs in the world won’t mean squat if you can’t breathe because pollution and other toxins have damaged your lungs.
If our air, water, and ground are so poisoned that little will grow that provides nourishment.
If larger and larger swaths of land are turned to deserts because of human recklessness and greed.
If deforestation continues unabated (because we need hamburgers and toilet paper)? Those trees are the lungs of our planet and we’re steadily whittling them away.
When the oceans are so poisoned, trashed, and polluted that life there is imperiled - both animal and vegetable? Those kelp beds and other ocean vegetation provide more of the lungs of our planet.
If the masses of human population that once could live in those areas and can’t survive there anymore start migrating... to WHERE? And by then, who will have them? Who will want them? Who will be able to accommodate them? Who will provide food, housing, sanitation, safety? Where will all these hundreds of thousands - even MILLIONS of the environmentally displaced - environmental refugees - go?
We’re ALL in for a world of hurt. ALL OF US, EVERYWHERE, even in still-green-for-now, still-temperate-for-now zones!
All I can hope for is that maybe - MAYBE - there’s still some time left to turn this around. Or at least slow it down!
All I know is - this American IS ready.
I just hope there’s still time to make a difference.
Or as a future SCOTUS Associate Justice.
Hell, if John Roberts ever steps down, she’d be a great Chief Justice.
Yep. That's my dream ticket, too.
AND it sets Harris up to carry the baton all the way to the top, beyond that. Plus, she’s still young enough to do that.
I'm right there with ya, ancianita!
I like Kamala Harris A LOT! But that Maddow interview licked me in for Jay Inslee. But then again, anybody who makes the climate crisis a top priority is gonna turn my head.
I’m a grandmother now. And I can’t spend even a few minutes worrying about what kind of planet we’re leaving to my granddaughter (who’s a big fat two months old today) AND all the other granddaughters and grandsons who’ll have to make it work long after we’re gone. We will have left an almost impossibly messy room for them to pick through, clean up, and survive.
Much love and empathy to you, titaniumsalute.
I watched both my parents, and my dear mother-in-law go down slow, hard, and agonizing. It was hard on everyone in the family, especially watching them fade and struggle and know we couldn’t do much more than that, none of us being medical specialists.
Those folks who provide elder care and hospice really are angels in the flesh. And they do indeed wind up helping the whole family, not just the ailing or dying member. I’m glad that such help is there, in this day and age. I’m extra glad it was available to you and your family.
Shit - these transitions are never easy or painless. And I guess most of us will face some version of it near the end. Sometimes that’s all one can pray for: safe passage.
Just know you’re surrounded by love, affection, sympathy, and support here, too, for sure.
You broke it, you bought it, West Virginia.
We tried to warn you. We tried to talk sense (and facts) to you. And we’re STILL trying to help you, and rescue you, and pull you out of this self-inflicted crisis. To hijack a certain one-liner from a certain lying, cheating, deceitful, and downright treasonous Russian Asset..,
Only WE can save you.
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