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The UN recently issued a direct report that climate change is irreversible. The oceans are warming, polar ice is melting, storms are getting more powerful and frequent, wildfires are burning everywhere, and the Gulf Stream is getting weaker and could even cease altogether.<\/p>\n
In other words, we’re f####d.<\/p>\n
Or are we?<\/p>\n
It may be too late to avert some of climate change’s effects, but there may still be time to avert total calamity. We will have to face rising seas, fiercer hurricanes, more wildfires, and possibly new and nasty diseases; but that doesn’t mean civilization is doomed. Disasters will certainly disrupt society, but they won’t necessarily cause everything to break down. We need to prepare for the worst while doing all that we can to mitigate global warming. Even if we have passed a tipping point – thanks a lot, President [sic] Trump! – we can still survive, and avoid worse tipping points. Areas around the equator may be uninhabitable for part of the year, if not all.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, some countries and regions will benefit. Canada and Russia will have longer growing seasons so they will become the new global breadbaskets. The Great Lakes area and the Nordic countries will enjoy milder winters, according to some projections. Being the tough and resourceful critters we are, we\u2019ll find new places to grow such vital crops as coffee, wine grapes and cacao.<\/p>\n
We all need to do what we can – use public transit when feasible, bike or walk more, combine trips, eat less meat (better still, none at all), stop buying stuff we don’t need, purchase items such as clothes that will last, donate or Freecycle usable items instead of throwing them away, recycle (and make sure what we put in that special bin actually gets recycled!), use less water, and so on. Also, we need to lean on our elected officials to pass laws and regulations that help the environment and reduce waste, as well as wean us off limited, polluting fossil fuels.<\/p>\n
The next several decades are going to be tough. Remember, tough times don’t last, but tough people do. So do tough societies.<\/p>\n
Just to be on the safe side, though, let’s start assembling Knowledge Arks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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