OK, I am starting to get seriously worried about global warming and climate change. I’ve always been “aware” and “concerned” but now I’m starting to “freak out.” These are the reasons:
It is mid-March and it is hot.
The apple orchard I live on is budding. If it gets below freezing between now and “real spring” (which occurs 2 months from now) the crop will be lost…again (this happened in 2010)
We never put our little tick-removing device away.
We have a lot of mosquitoes in our living room.
We went canoeing on Sunday on the Mohawk and the Erie Canal in the vicinity of Vischer Ferry and the Northway. Everything was brown and gray. There were no ice floes. Though there was not a speck of green to be seen anywhere, (even the water was brown with this funky bumpy algae floating in it) it was hot. The shoreline was choked with garbage and debris from last year’s flooding during Tropical Storms Irene & Lee. We had a great time but it was weird. If it weren’t for the roar of traffic from the Northway, signifying for better or for worse an abundance of human life,
I would have thought we were paddling in some kind of post-apocalyptic world
I recently got an e mail from Barack Obama. (This is not unusual. Michelle e mails me too.) He was telling me that for a donation of $2 or more I could be entered into a drawing to have dinner with him. I got to thinking about it. If I did have dinner with Barack Obama what would I tell him? After this weekend I think I know. We’ve got to stop climate change. The U.S. has to lead the way because no one else will or can. I understand he has to play his cards right to get re-elected because the alternative would be very bad. But after that---we need to get to work.
A book everyone who lives in the Capital Region should read:
"World Made by Hand"
James Howard Kuntsler (lives in Saratoga County)
It’s a novel that shows what it would be like to live in this region in the future if we don’t do something now. I highly recommend it.
We drove over the Mohawk on Sunday and I too thought it had an odd look even said something to Paul who brushed me off.
ReplyDeleteThe ticks are starting to gross me out I have pulled 3 out of my skin since December they never went away I walk at the farm nearly everyday.
I too get lots of emails from Michelle and Barack Obama I have seriously thought about donating $2 because I have a lot to say to him. I agree if he does not get re elected our country in in serious trouble. On a brighter note pretty much everytime one of the Republican candidates opens their mouth the Obama campaign gets another vote.