Climate Crisis

 Hi Rose.  I’ll write about it.  

It’s also known as global warming or climate change.  Terms are politically charged, these days.   I guess it was identified back when Al Gore was in college, really.  The "greenhouse effect."  It’s ongoing (but “crisis” means NOW and IMMEDIATE).   Who knows if we’re near (or past) a “tipping point”.   It’s basically pollution.   Chemicals in the air.  Carbon mainly, but also CFCs.   We should alll be using less electricity and using renewables and trying to have a smaller carbon footprint, like bicycling or walking, or public transportation, instead of driving, say.  You can buy carbon offsets.  Airplanes use lots of fuel, make lots of carbon.  Trains are better.  There’s lots of activism, and government pledges at UN or Paris or whatnot.   (Some) Corporations are trying to be better.  Technologies are being developed.  Education is happening.   Ignorance is still a problem.  A congressman brought a snowball onto the senate floor to prove warming wasn’t happening.   There’s a difference between climate and weather.  If we don’t do anything, there’s like 5 results: 1. Extinctions and great animal suffering, and all the ecological ramifications for the web of interdependent living creatures, including us and our diets, 2. (Melting glaciers) Sea rise, covering islands and a great deal of Florida, for example, or even NY (worst case, 44 feet??), 3. Extreme weather events, like storms and droughts and floods and hurricanes.   So, death, disease, destruction, and displacement. 4. Temperature change, making life worse (or better).  Some places will actually get colder.  So, livability and property values.  5.  Politics and international relations: war, migrations, lack of drinking water, general disruption.