Maya Angelou once opined: "Every storm runs out of rain." This regime will end. The idiot pretending to be our president will end (though not soon enough). Then the tasks before GenZ and GenAlpha will be to figure out how to cope with extreme weather to moderate its effects, and to curse their grandparents' stupidity and greed. They will be as mystified and annoyed looking at us as we have tended to be when looking at Europe's religious wars of centuries past.
Ever since I heard Gore’s prediction in 2006 that our climate disruption would pass the point of no return in ten years, I couldn’t help but note that this deadline then became a moving target, generally shifting farther into the future as the future kept catching up with it.
Although manmade global warming seems undeniable and there certainly must be a real tipping point, the uncertainty gives us both despair and a glimmer of hope.
As Churchill said: "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense".
Good read that I almost didn't read. I saw Michigan League of Conservation Voters as Michigan League of Conservative Voters. Glad I looked at it twice.
Always good to read about supporting hope and keeping despair at bay. As LaTosha Brown, the founder of Black Votes Matter states, we’ve been fighting hopelessness and despair for 400 years and turning it into hope and change. You don’t give up. You rest. These are century long fights. And then you get back in the fight. Like others have said, this level of imbecility won’t last. It’s what we are planning to do afterward that counts.
Maya Angelou once opined: "Every storm runs out of rain." This regime will end. The idiot pretending to be our president will end (though not soon enough). Then the tasks before GenZ and GenAlpha will be to figure out how to cope with extreme weather to moderate its effects, and to curse their grandparents' stupidity and greed. They will be as mystified and annoyed looking at us as we have tended to be when looking at Europe's religious wars of centuries past.
Superb analysis and reasoning
Ever since I heard Gore’s prediction in 2006 that our climate disruption would pass the point of no return in ten years, I couldn’t help but note that this deadline then became a moving target, generally shifting farther into the future as the future kept catching up with it.
Although manmade global warming seems undeniable and there certainly must be a real tipping point, the uncertainty gives us both despair and a glimmer of hope.
As Churchill said: "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense".
I appreciate this, and even more that you know history!
Good read that I almost didn't read. I saw Michigan League of Conservation Voters as Michigan League of Conservative Voters. Glad I looked at it twice.
Always good to read about supporting hope and keeping despair at bay. As LaTosha Brown, the founder of Black Votes Matter states, we’ve been fighting hopelessness and despair for 400 years and turning it into hope and change. You don’t give up. You rest. These are century long fights. And then you get back in the fight. Like others have said, this level of imbecility won’t last. It’s what we are planning to do afterward that counts.