Recently the IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - published its latest report concerning the earth's warming climate. It makes grim reading with dire predictions if the world powers don't unite in making major changes to fossil-fuel use. In October the UK will host COP 26 in Glasgow, Scotland, where there will be major pressure for urgent action to try to prevent a global catastrophe as our world gets ever warmer.
Even if countries and nations agree to act swiftly and decisively - do they ever? - many changes are already 'baked in' and their effects will be there for decades to come. Of course there will be climate-change-deniers and that's the nature of humankind - there are always those who refuse to heed the details.
My generation - we baby boomers - have lived very privileged lifestyles and subsequent generations will probably not enjoy similar freedoms of leisure and travel. I for one consider myself exceedingly fortunate I've been able to live the way I have but the storm clouds are now gathering. Various freedoms may not be there for most of us in future. This world is getting warmer, the climate more unstable, weather patterns less predictable, extremes of weather more extreme and more commonplace. The effects will be widespread and deep. Our homes will need modifying to cope with heat and storms and some people will have to move as areas flood more often. Agriculure and farming/ranching will have to change markedly. The term 'New Age' will mean something very different just as 'BC' now does.
Daily I listen to what's being proposed in an attempt at dealing with climate change. Changes will impact the everyday lives of adults and children alike. Kids will be taught how the world they're growing up in will be different from the one their parents knew. Just about everything we're familiar with faces change. Some of those changes will be radical and shocking, some are already underway and can not be changed - period. The citizens of the world to come will have to accept they can't influence those particular changes but they may be able to put the brakes on even greater changes. Time will tell....
I've often remarked I am more an observer in this world than a participant. I feel I mostly came to watch what's happening. As I metaphorically cast my eye across the world I see with deep concern the changes that are imminent. Living in this dimension is set to become an even bigger challenge than it has been thus far, few will be unaffected and many will face major upheaval. I expect to have passed over and to have missed much of the worst of these changes but I could be around another quarter century and I might see and experience many of them. That would be quite the experience but I'm not sure I would consciously choose it.
Even if countries and nations agree to act swiftly and decisively - do they ever? - many changes are already 'baked in' and their effects will be there for decades to come. Of course there will be climate-change-deniers and that's the nature of humankind - there are always those who refuse to heed the details.
My generation - we baby boomers - have lived very privileged lifestyles and subsequent generations will probably not enjoy similar freedoms of leisure and travel. I for one consider myself exceedingly fortunate I've been able to live the way I have but the storm clouds are now gathering. Various freedoms may not be there for most of us in future. This world is getting warmer, the climate more unstable, weather patterns less predictable, extremes of weather more extreme and more commonplace. The effects will be widespread and deep. Our homes will need modifying to cope with heat and storms and some people will have to move as areas flood more often. Agriculure and farming/ranching will have to change markedly. The term 'New Age' will mean something very different just as 'BC' now does.
Daily I listen to what's being proposed in an attempt at dealing with climate change. Changes will impact the everyday lives of adults and children alike. Kids will be taught how the world they're growing up in will be different from the one their parents knew. Just about everything we're familiar with faces change. Some of those changes will be radical and shocking, some are already underway and can not be changed - period. The citizens of the world to come will have to accept they can't influence those particular changes but they may be able to put the brakes on even greater changes. Time will tell....
I've often remarked I am more an observer in this world than a participant. I feel I mostly came to watch what's happening. As I metaphorically cast my eye across the world I see with deep concern the changes that are imminent. Living in this dimension is set to become an even bigger challenge than it has been thus far, few will be unaffected and many will face major upheaval. I expect to have passed over and to have missed much of the worst of these changes but I could be around another quarter century and I might see and experience many of them. That would be quite the experience but I'm not sure I would consciously choose it.