It is going to be in the 60’s tomorrow. I am a little surprised, and somewhat scared that it is going to be so warm in the middle of January. But I guess since I plan on living for at least 40 more years, and the world doesn’t seem to be getting its act together very fast on solving global warming that I had better get used to stuff like this.
I wonder if I will be that old guy that says things like “in my day we had snow” or “in my day a man could buy cloths from a store” or “in my day kids used to go to school instead of labor camps.” Or maybe I get to be the guy that says things like “in my day we used to burn fossil fuels for transportation, not like your high falutin E-lectric hot rods you kids are driving around today, too damn fast I tell ya.” or “in my day wind turbine technology had just gotten started, we didn’t have your fancy high altitude gigawatt turbines like you wipper snappers do today.”
I sure hope I get to be the guy telling stories of the last carbon war, and the last dirty power plant, and how we saved ourselves with peace and renewable energy. I really hope I am not the guy explaining to the dregs of human civilization about how we used to be able to feed ourselves without slave labor. I once read that you don’t inherit the world from the previous generation, you borrow it from the next generation, I have been thinking about this a lot, and I wonder what kind of world I am leaving them.
It seems we are such a focal point for change, such an important turning point in the history of our species. I can only hope that we pull our heads out of our collective ass’ and do something about the problems we face. I will be thinking about this stuff when I vote for our next president, when I make my next purchase, when I choose what food I eat, when I decide what to use for transportation, and most importantly how I live my life on a daily basis. I welcome you to do the same.
Reading this post makes me know that I’m not alone. Reading your thoughts and worries makes me have hope that one day, not very far from today, there will be many who will think alike and worry and act to stop this mess.
Reading about your dreams of a better future makes me know that maybe the future leaders won’t be selfish crap who care about their own stupid and imperialist life and families.
And maybe, just maybe, this world will change and our kids will say :This world exists because there were caring people who dared to act beyond the globalized structure and gave us what we are now protecting and preserving.
Maybe one day…
I could not agree more. I live in Michigan and the weather here yesterday was 61 degrees out and supposed to be pretty close to that again today. Then of course tomorrow is supposed to get colder again and possibly snow. All I know is that it was pouring rain this morning and once again I am reminded of the fact of global warming. It is always the first thing that goes through my head when I hear people talking about the weather around the office. I just cannot help it. It is by far the most pressing issue we will face over the next 30 years and it just frustrates me to no end to see that we here in the US are doing next to nothing about it.
The second thing to go through my head when I see it pouring outside is that I really need to go out and buy a couple of rain barrels to use them over the summer!