I titled a journal of 2020 blog postings, “The Beginning of the End, or The End of the Beginning”. But the more I read about the two subjects, the more convinced I become that we are truly at the Beginning of the End. The End of What you might ask? Well, the Beginning of the End of the World, I might reply.
Every day now, I read about some new Climate Change fact. A
scientist is predicting that the Southwest US might hit 150 degrees in the near
future. And another doctor was speaking of treating someone who fell on a
sidewalk, and the sidewalk temperature was so hot that he was actually Burned,
and required burn treatment. And that made me even wonder about doing something
simple, like taking your dog for a walk, and the dog’s feet becoming burned or
the dog simply ran away from the walkway because it was simply too hot.
And then the waterways around the Florida coastline rose
above 100 degrees. So, what does that do to the sea life?
And all of the predictions suggest that these seemingly
drastic daily temperatures were actually cooler than we may ever see again
during this season. From the New York
Times:
“Last month, the
planet experienced its hottest
June since records began in 1850. July 6 was its hottest
day. And the odds are rising that 2023 will end up displacing
2016 as the hottest
year. At the moment, the eight
warmest years on the books are the past eight.
“The extreme weather
which has affected many millions of people in July is unfortunately the harsh
reality of climate change and a foretaste of the future,” Petteri Taalas, the
secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization, said in a
statement. “The need to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions is more urgent than
ever before.”
The world has entered what forecasters warn could be a
multiyear period of exceptional warmth, one in which the warming effects of
humankind’s continuing emissions of heat-trapping gases are compounded by El
Niño, the recurring climate pattern typically associated with hotter conditions
in many regions.”
So, Climate Change is here. The Climate HAS CHANGED. It is no longer arguable.
But then what do I read? Well, the Republican Party is not
so sure. Yep, that’s right. In the middle of a catastrophic global climate
crisis, the republicans seem to be imagining that Biden’s Impeachment would
easily Trump Climate Change. Yeah, why would we wish to actually do anything to
defer the worst effects of climate change? Well, for one thing, then we would
have to acknowledge we were wrong and Climate Change is real. And republicans no
longer do that—acknowledge errors. No,
but my next guess is that, for their next move, they will acknowledge Climate
Change, but blame it all on Biden and the Dems. Yeah, if only Joe had been paying attention
when the scientists told him that industrial carbon emissions were a major
cause of Climate Change. But instead,
Joe was going full time on Trump, and inventing stories about him, and so was
way too busy to devote any energy to Climate Change. So, it’s all Joe Biden’s fault.
And I sit here watching this growing crisis as I continue
aging out of existence. Yeah, at 88, I watch all this with even more sense of
terror than were I only thinking of my own age-related demise. Lots of stuff goes on in your head when you
suddenly enter your late 80s, 88 in my case. Seems as though every time I open a news
article, it begins telling me about someone I know who has just passed into the
Netherland. Sometimes it’s even broader.
Carol and I watch routinely reruns of a British show called “Are You Being
Served?” It ran many years ago and the series was on the air between 1972 and
1985. Turns out everyone on the show has now passed away. And at least some on
the show were “young” (now to be fair, they were “young” sometime in the
1972-1985 period). Still, we continue to watch this program, where everyone has
now passed on. Hmmm, that’s weird.
So this Death thing seems all around us. When I was young, people periodically passed
on. But then after a period of sadness, that was over and we went back to
normal life. Now, we seem surrounded.
And added to that perception, this Climate thing has begun weighing in. It’s
now a new element. And storms
are more ominous, because they bring more destruction, real or imagined with
them. A whole new era seems upon us, and
that new era is not promising, for our entire globe.
So, republican stupidity is just one added element in this
new doomsland era we seem to have entered.
To be fair, given my mindset about the Climate Doomsday, republicans
seem almost irrelevant. Like they really have passed on and are merely one more
poisonous element in our threatened globe.
I wish I could break out of this messy thinking process. But
instead, daily, it grows worse. Mainly because I’m old and will likely soon die
anyway. But also, even if I escape for a while, it merely gives me more time to
watch the gradual disintegration of our entire planet. And republicans are
simply bit players in their own doomsday play, a charade of life’s evil playmakers. So play on all you idiot republicans. You are playing to an audience of idiot-malenfants, who will soon disappear from the planet anyway.
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