Climate Change

The crazy heat wave in the Pacific Northwest has me thinking about climate change lately.

That's not to say that I didn't think about it before, it's just that people have been talking about it my entire life.

And there's almost always some global agreement to 'do something', though it's pretty much always known that it wasn't enough...

But having that out there for decades makes it seem less immediate, I guess. Or we compartmentalize and don't really think about it.

But it's really here, it's really happening, and yet again there doesn't seem to be any real action to address it.

I've heard people talking about how the pandemic has divided us much like climate change, except it's happening on a faster scale...

And the thing of it is, there does seem widespread support for action. Maybe not among the same people who don't take the pandemic seriously, but almost everyone else accepts the science.

So it feels like the real problem is that there's a group of powerful people who are successful at stonewalling things.

And I couldn't care less if they were the only ones affected, but that's not the case.

It really sucks that there's going to be so much pain and suffering (and already has been) because a group of foolish, selfish, powerful people are basically ruining things for everyone.

Its true... There's only so much I can do by trying to recycle (and I've heard stories about how impossible it is to really recycle plastic, and about how much actually winds up in the garbage exported to poorer nations) and its just...

Really rather maddening.

This sucks, so much of it sucks, and the fools who've convinced themselves it's not real seem determined to force everyone to suffer the consequences of their delusions.

I suppose we can still hope that the 2022 midterms will change the current political situation. Despite my comments here, it seems highly likely that Republicans lose (barring actions some of them seem perfectly willing to take, no matter how destructive and illegal they are). 

Because no amount of 'we told you so' is worth the crap we're all going to be dealing with if these selfish assholes succeed at what they're trying to do.