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   "Everywhere I look there are opportunities to be addressing climate change and everywhere I look we are not doing it."        Bill Nye    

                                                                Guest Opinion | January 17, 2021        

       How greed and politics are slowing the switch to renewable energy

                                                               By Andrew Dessler                                      

   It is (with apologies to Charles Dickens) the best of times; it is the worst of times.

   Thanks to fossil fuels, billions of people in 2022 enjoy lives of wealth, comfort, and material possessions unimaginable before the industrial revolution.

   But fossil fuels have their dark side. You might think you understand that, but it’s likely fossil fuels are even worse for the world than you think. Let’s start with climate change. Contrary to what you might hear listening to Fox News, the scientific understanding of climate change is good and it is progressing at exactly the rate predicted decades ago by Exxon.

   What you probably don’t realize is how massive these changes may be. In the depths of the last ice age 20,000 years ago, the Earth was only 6 degrees Celsius colder than it is today. That world—with thousands of feet of ice sitting over much of North America, sea level 300 feet lower, and completely different ecosystems—would be unrecognizable to those living on today’s Earth.

   This helps us put predictions of future warming into context.

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                          TOGETHER IN A CLOSET                                                                 by the Ecologist

Imagine that a whole big bunch of us is in a closet together.  We can make it a really big closet, but it’s a closet.   No windows and only one door.  And if we open the door, everyone dies.  So we have to stick it out and survive until tomorrow in this closet together.  We’ll always have enough air, but if we allow that guy over there to light his cigar the air will smell like cigar smoke.  For a long time.  With just that one cigar.  We're gonna have to make it past tomorrow.

But no one is willing to tell him to cut it out.  He smokes one after another and now the air is getting really bad because of it.  Someone needs to tell him to stop.  There are actually some folks being sickened by the smoke.  It looks like it’s going to have to come to the point that a group of us get together and make him stop.

That’s what Extinction Rebellion  is all about, that’s why they exist today.         Greenpeace  exists for the same reason.  Whiners and deniers say 17-year-old Greta Thunberg hasn’t offered one concrete idea about what we should do, or how we should do it.  Neither has X Rebellion or Greenpeace.  They’re all just trying to get us to STOP what we’re doing and how we’re doing it.

Like that group of us who, sooner or later, is going to go make that guy stop lighting his cigars inside our closet.

So, for yourself, what’s it going to be?  Sooner?  Or later?

"Now is the time for each and everyone of us to decide which side of history we are on." Extinction Rebellion, 4/28/19

So for you, what’s it going to be?  And when?   



"We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow."  Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu