While I am definitely going to address man-made climate disruption, sea-level rise, over-population and the need to live a "one planet lifestyle" or die; the antiquated Electoral College met today and despite polls, popular vote and admissions of hacking the election, voted for the "winner" of this critical election. I had to write one more time about politics. I needed to state my position and then move on to what little can be done and the need now, more than ever, for us all to be prepared, to "prep" for disaster or apocalypse.
Below is that article and I have posted to FACEBOOK and more. Please read it comment and do join the "One Planet Lifestyle" FACEBOOK group!
So, today the Electoral College failed to do the job they were created to do and certified that America lost its mind and elected a buffoon as our leader. It will never be MY president, but it does lead the country for four years or the rest of its life. Hopefully THAT will come first!
Where does that leave America's role in mitigating man-made climate disruption? Usually, when a President leaves office, it take about two years for his replacement's policies to change our policies. But with the "dreaded and reviled" Goldman-Sachs executive as Treasury Secretary and oil-based Texan Rick Perry as Secretary of Energy, something tells me it may be a LOT faster!
After all, we have the problems we have DESPITE the best efforts of professional, career politicians, NOT because of them. With an egomaniac with zero political experience as out leader, I fear the downward spiral will accelerate.
According to 97% of the world's scientists, several of Earth's systems are approaching the "tipping point" where we cannot undo the damage. However, with 7.3 billion people, it most likely was crossed sometime in the 60's at four billion. For all of us and the 1.7 billion more that will arrive by 2040, trying to live a "one planet lifestyle" may well mean we would need to live like 12th century peasants due to our numbers anyway!
The solution is and has been since we first spoke of over-population in the 60's, LESS HUMANS. But that is reviled as "racist" since those having the most children, misguided evangelicals aside, are non-white. So perhaps the planet's best hope of reducing the population, IS the abomination that the Electoral College voted for today. This person with its "TWITTER WARS" and ceaseless poorly thought out rhetoric, stands the best chance of initiating a nuclear war, better than Kennedy did in October of 1962.
So "IT", our inexperienced, bankrupt novice leader, may actually reduce the planet's population and save the ecosystem! It just may do this in much the same way as the "Black Death" did in the mid-fourteenth century..... grotesquely!
I have had time since the hacked election to think about what I can do in the time I have left in Life, to help, to mitigate. It is depressing to see how little can be done, particularly now that we are facing a potential six year, minimum, departure from doing ANYTHING, except putting coal miners "back to work" (like fracking will disappear and make that cost-effective again) , persecuting gays and women and promoting white men and ONLY white men.
Tipping points will now be reached. Sea level will continue to rise and will affect more than a few Pacific atoll nations. "IT" does not understand that New Orleans, Miami, Savannah, Corpus Christi and it's beloved Manhattan are lower that The Maldives...... but IT will learn, FAST! Humanity will continue to fail to stem it's Leporidae-like breeding patterns until the bombs fall or Nature cures the problem with another "Black Death".
So despite not having "dogs in the fight": children, I will continue to care, to preach & teach man-made climate disruption, to strive for a negative carbon footprint and teach a one planet lifestyle. Part of this, is being prepared for disasters. So we will "prep", build and talk to all who will listen, while America's Nero fiddles with being a leader while the planet burns. This too, I will preach & teach.
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