Thinking on the anomalous weather across North America this past December, capped by a tragic, drought-fueled, out of season wildfire in CO…
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Nature is sounding the alarm; her civil defense sirens are blaring.
Humanities’ response is to design better hearing protection.
Photo of the Marshall Fire, Boulder County, CO on December 30th, 2021: by J.S.
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Image: a North Atlantic Right Whale with her calf. See: “New Research Helps Explain a Sudden Population Crash for Rare Whales”, in the NY Times, By Catrin Einhorn, Sept. 1, 2021 (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/climate/whales.html)
Right whales, wrong time. Human activities are leading to the demise of these majestic beings. Only 356 individual Northern Right Whales are thought to remain. Global warming (which affects their food supply and reproduction rates), ship strikes, and entanglements in fishing gear are the primary culprits. Every choice we make, every single day has impacts and implications that range far beyond what is immediately evident.
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Got heat? Global warming, it’s what’s for dinner.
The only viable form of mitigation to “climate change” at this point, is adaptation and resiliency. And a good place to begin is through cooperation and collaboration. The alternatives, competition and violence –the normal “go to” human response– are disastrous for everyone.
Another manifestation of mitigation, would be to reduce the human population. It would make all of the challenges we face today, and will face in the future, more manageable.
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Everything comes with a cost, it is often hidden in plain sight. I stumbled across this surprising and troubling factoid on the BBC: “Bitcoin’s energy consumption ‘equals that of Switzerland’.”
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In the U.S., today is “Bike to Work Day.” For the Dutch, every day is bike to work day! Check out this video “Dutch people cycle so much it’s equivalent to planting 54 million trees a year,” and this story “These are the world’s best cities to be a cyclist,” both from the World Economic Forum.
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About the Image: The clean, white snow melts more slowly than dirty (darker) dust-covered snow because it reflects more radiation from the sun rather than absorbing it. This Image was excerpted from NPR, and was courtesy of the Center For Snow and Avalanche Studies.
A day for celebration and reflection on our impact on the planet.
Through humanity’s alteration of the landscape in the Southwest, we’re disrupting Nature and fiddling with the water supply of 40 million people: “The Rocky Mountains Have A Dust Problem“.
Eventorum explained.
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Image: A receding glacier in northern Bolivia (phys.org)
Bye-bye glaciers. Subtitled, rising tides lift all boats without holes: Glacier shrinkage is past the point of no return [scientific journal – Nature Climate Change,
Eventorum explained.
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