The wildfires in California replicate the massive fire storms in the boreal forest in Canada and Siberia, the lungs of the earth. Our addiction to fossil fuel has ignited an age of fire.
We are all goners, now. The Trump/MAGA stupidity is pretty much irrelevant at this point. Pick yer poison. "Free market capitalism" has won the day and doomed all of us in the same moment.
I am deeply committed to environmental conservation, to the extent that I adopted a vegetarian lifestyle approximately eight years ago. While I align with George Galloway on political matters, I find myself differing with him on environmental issues. That said, Chris, the recent wildfire in California occurred in the middle of winter, despite morning temperatures nearing freezing and daytime highs only reaching the mid-50s.
I beg to differ. We are not addicted to fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are extracted, refined and sold by a very small number of people. Fossil fuels are controlled by monopolistic behavior, conglomerations and sociopathic greed, that will not allow us to transfer to green energy as quickly as we need to. The fossil fuel businesses have the money and influence and network, and are now their own global authority. They do as they please, and are detrimental to life on earth. As Hansen says, we need to immediately stop them and charge them for their global crimes.
Living here in northern NM, I am likely to see our mountains on (very big) fire sooner than later. After a rather dry winter, it's only a matter of time. Global warming and human folly have delivered -- paradise lost / destroyed -- for assorted bling.
We are all goners, now. The Trump/MAGA stupidity is pretty much irrelevant at this point. Pick yer poison. "Free market capitalism" has won the day and doomed all of us in the same moment.
I am deeply committed to environmental conservation, to the extent that I adopted a vegetarian lifestyle approximately eight years ago. While I align with George Galloway on political matters, I find myself differing with him on environmental issues. That said, Chris, the recent wildfire in California occurred in the middle of winter, despite morning temperatures nearing freezing and daytime highs only reaching the mid-50s.
got it.
sooooo
what now
as more people get it
than
maybe we can turn this around
til them
we wait
untill it's
too late
Chris never minces words, all straight talk, no beating around the bush.
“Our house is on fire” GT
I beg to differ. We are not addicted to fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are extracted, refined and sold by a very small number of people. Fossil fuels are controlled by monopolistic behavior, conglomerations and sociopathic greed, that will not allow us to transfer to green energy as quickly as we need to. The fossil fuel businesses have the money and influence and network, and are now their own global authority. They do as they please, and are detrimental to life on earth. As Hansen says, we need to immediately stop them and charge them for their global crimes.
Living here in northern NM, I am likely to see our mountains on (very big) fire sooner than later. After a rather dry winter, it's only a matter of time. Global warming and human folly have delivered -- paradise lost / destroyed -- for assorted bling.