Well
aren't you relieved that it isn't too late yet? Aren't you happy that until the
equator gets so hot you could probably fry hot dogs - without using any sort of cooking device - where the surf's breaking that it's not time to panic?
Yes, it's not too late and if drastic actions are
taken by people everywhere -- if lifestyle changes are made in each earthling's daily life that we take for granted -- then perhaps this climate change prediction won't come to
pass. Or at least they won't be as bad as what' s been predicted here.
And now we've come full circle to what John Oliver alluded to in the quote on top of this article: What can we do? Well don't ask me, I don't want to get hit with a mean punch if I suggest that
you walk or ride your bike to the grocery store today to get your bread, milk, and eggs. Or if
I suggest that you turn off the lights in a room once you leave the room. Or
that you not use the A/C when it's breezy and cool outside -- open the window,
instead. Or that you wrap yourself in a warm blanket instead of turning up the
heat on colder spring nights. Or that maybe you could invest in a wood-burning stove to heat part of your abode in the colder months (oh, that aroma of a wood fire is so nice - especially around the holidays!). And if I tell you that you don't need that
tropical vacation this year -- when you and the entire family fly in a plane --
well, I don't really want to get shot, either.
Actually, I don't
know if any of this will matter, anyhow. Maybe we're all doomed. For the time being, I'm thinking of buying some property on the Bering Strait in which I can sweat out my elderly years. That is, if God graces me with such a golden years' existence. Yeppers, I'll have my old Jimmy Buffett CDs blaring, I'll be wearing my Bermuda shorts with no shirt on the sultry steaming beach, and I'll thank climate change for bringing me, at last, to a tropical paradise!
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