Why Aren’t We All FREAKING OUT about the Climate?
That’s the key question for the survival of the species. Reading an excellent article about why we keep ignoring climate change and I came across this...
For starters, it lacks the absolutely critical component—the “me” component. “Nobody wakes up in the morning and looks at the longterm climate forecast,” says David Ropeik, an international consultant on risk perception and communication, formerly with the Harvard School of Public Health. “They ask what the weather is today, where I live, and how it’s going to affect me.”
But the thing is I DO! Every day I wake up and I think this isn’t normal. This isn’t right. It all feels wrong. I’ve been feeling this for about 3 years now. At first questioningly. “Does it feel strangely a little too hot today?” To more recently, “this makes no sense, this is nuts. It’s summer heat in October and there hasn’t been a break basically since June”.
And now scientist are saying we’re 12 years away from irreversible calamity. Saying this just months after the double (quadruple?) barrel hurricane+typhoon insanity of the late summer/fall/whatever. I for one do not feel like any of this is OK, or is going to be without sh!ttons of effort. My wife and I will be 50 when 2030 hits. Sounds like It is gonna get super crazy F’ing real in our golden years.
We have the technology. The knowhow, the ability to drastically cut back and asap quit the carbon addiction. Let’s fix this sh!t! Tokenize it. Humanize it. Revolutionize it. But we gotta get going quick. Cause a dozen years ain’t nearly long enough... especially for distracted-ass humans.
Let’s wake up tomorrow and push for change.
Yours With The Fear,
Doug
If you’re freaking out, drop a screaming selfie or drawing in the reply for a full upvote. We gotta start yelling sometime.
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Me and hubby were sat discussing this last night- in particular converting to renewable energy and electric cars. All these changes take money, and not everyone can afford to do it, but as a planet can we afford NOT to?
According to you, @dougkarr. We must do something urgent for our planet! Every day the heat becomes so unbearable that it is killing many people. Too bad I don't have a camera nearby to show my desperate cry at this hour, when it's night and the heat is from an oven. Greetings
If you are truly ready to go down the rabbit hole it is more terrifying than you can imagine, over 27 HAARP arrays owned by private corps.. around the world these control the weather.... YOU MUST ACTIVATE your INNER HAARP and vibrate from your frontal cortex than your limbic system.... we need all Earth consciousness peeps on board... spin your chakras go within or go without.. .you too can control the weather with your heart and mind....
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have a nice day sir
I think about this too! I have the weather app, Dark Sky, and it has a feature called Time Machine where you can check the forecast for any day in the past. It's interesting to see how much more stable the weather was just a few decades ago. Last week we had nearly a 50 degree difference in highs from one day to the next. I don't ever remember that happening as a child or young adult. The phrases, "climate change" and "global warming" should be changed to something that reflects the severity of the situation like "planetary boiling pot" or "global catastrophe". Our politicians need to stop taking donations from corporations who make money off making the situation worse. There are those who'll argue until the end of time that this just is a natural weather cycle. The amount of C02 and methane we're pumping into the atmosphere has to be speeding things up.