By the end of this century! (That crashing sound you hear is Northeast Seaboard property values … and not just Jersey and Long Island either….)
Report from America’s NOAA, ‘liberated’ on January 20(!). I’ve been saying up to 2,000 years more at least; worse if we continue doing very little about it. This report says the problem is that while some carbon dioxide precipitates out of the upper atmosphere after a shorter amount of time naturally, other CO2 takes much longer: it’s a mixed picture, a complex system. They don’t mean “irreversible,” as a read of the article indicates, so they shouldn’t say that; they mean very long term — way beyond the next Electoral Cycle! The thing is, we have to get cracking, because everything we can do now will make a difference down the road, even if not for us or our children or grandchildren. It’s way past late for political games with China and India and the Third World, Bushies! As Red Green says, we’re all in this together. As we started learning about trash in the ’80s, There’s no more “away”!
Will life on Earth survive such a prolonged assault, is the question.
I just read here about Inuit (Canada Eskimo) traditional knowledge being called (in the Inuit language, Inuktitut) Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, or IQ. LOL! That’s so cool! I know *I* couldn’t pass this IQ test!!! Hell, if what we laughably call civilization collapsed tomorrow, I’d probably unknowingly eat some noxious weed growing out of the ground and croak! That’s right, we’ve all been “taught” how to survive in a supermarket – or worse yet, McDonald’s – and Heaven forbid we should ever find ourselves without one! Seriously, we should all learn some Native knowledge about wherever we live, in case we need it someday;* we probably need it NOW! It might help us more to “walk lightly over the earth.”
(*–Interestingly, it took the Peanuts gang to remind many of us that when Squanto, one of the last Patuxet Indians after a British smallpox epidemic devastated “New England” and the Maritimes, taught the Plymouth “Pilgrims” and Co. how to survive in their accidental new home in Massachusetts [vs. New York], he was passing on to them the traditional knowledge of his by-then-dead village nation, something not done lightly by Indigenous Peoples today because they usually end up regretting it. Had he not done so, the colonists might have died, or abandoned the colony.)
Is Prince Charles crazy, or Maclean’s?
March 15, 2010 — Tiernan O FaolainA ‘newsmagazine’ I hardly recognized, on the eve of the ‘critically panned’ Fall Homecoming of the Heir to the Throne (including of Canada), published an opinion that he’d taken leave of his senses. Is it possible that His Royal Highness is just a Classic, ie Progressive, Conservative, such as I’ve tried to be*, rather than the U.S. regressive Republican (GOP) kind?
Is it also possible HRH is “becoming Orthodox“?? Certainly he has opportunity to reflect on the world he sits almost at the top of in terms of wealth, fame, and access to power. And/Or just chat with our First Among Equals, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople (yes, that’s Istanbul in Turkish), “The Green Patriarch.”
But children must play … instead of providing reportage and analysis that knows what on earth it’s talking about. Looks like I got out of journalism just in time – ‘My skills, it seems, are no longer required!’
(*–He said humbly!! 😉 )
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