Is anyone else sick of the weather? I am. When it’s Winter, I expect Winter weather: cold, wind, snow, sleet, ice, etc.). Well, I will be getting back to that kind of weather over the next week, but the last two days here in the ‘burgh have been well, Spring like. Some of the trees have buds, I’ve heard baby birds (and seen them) and we were able to have the windows open for almost two entire days. Mind you this is occurring now, in February. We also had a four day stretch of this at the end of January, when I observed the same phenomenons.
Yes, I know you are going to mention ‘Climate Change’ and ‘Global Warming’. But, as the Republicans have informed us, those things don’t really exist. I mean, I believe they do. Do I think we have caused them, no, but I do think we have added to their severity and probably rushed things along. The only thing that I know for sure is that Mother Nature is tired of us. Though ‘we’ think that we have found ways to conquer her, she is still as feral as the inner thoughts of house cats. I’ve seen footage and photographs from Prypiat and Chernobyl. I know that less than 20 years after we are gone, Mother Nature will prevail and envelope and hide most if not all signs of us.
I want seasons, seasons that are consistent. Living in Pittsburgh, has allowed to me to experience four definite seasons, but even they are on rocky ground. I am not looking forward to only experiencing very extreme Summers and Winters with no in-betweens. Does anyone else feel the same?
So, it’s going to happen. Something. And on a global level. I am determined to keep that something at bay as long as I possibly can. I just wish that more and more people would see that our only two steps are to make the lifestyle changes necessary to become renewable energy independent (as individual persons & communities, not a national system, because we have seen how tragically our national systems breakdown) , thus lessening our pollutive contributions to the problem. The second step is to prepare to rebuild after the something. Yes, I mean what I say. Think Hurricane Katrina, but on a global scale and to the nth degree. You can see what I mean about preparing to rebuild.
Obviously, there are other steps to take, but those seem to me to be the most important ones. We have to kill Monsanto and other monopolizing entities or at least cripple them enough that their buying off and paying off powers don’t render us completely helpless. We need to convince people that ethanol fuel is only a kludge in the system and not really a solution. We have to stop sending our children to public school, so that they aren’t dumbed down and can grow up as free thinking individuals. We need to bring the community back together and find our tribes, so that we have resources for our children and elderly and for those who take care of our children and elderly. We need to stop hunting down and killing off our wise ones, our elder patriarchs and matriarchs, our sages and healers, our midwives and shamans. There is a lot to be done, but those two main steps alone could save us…sadly though, not all of us.
Any thoughts?
