Climate Change is Probably Far Worse Than We Think

And there’s a reason for that

MartinEdic
2 min readMay 11, 2022

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Photo by Daniel Mizrahi on Unsplash

Target dates for the apocalypse: 2030, 2050. Arbitrary deadlines for climate tipping points. Everyone sees them.

And they are total bullshit.

These dates are made up targets designed to make us complacent. 2030. That’s pretty close, right? Only eight years, except eight years, especially when you’re younger, is almost unimaginable for many.

As for 2050, think about this: virtually every fossil fuel exec, politician, and denier alive today and responsible, will be dead or otherwise out of the picture. It’s a very convenient target for them to talk about, to keep us from dealing with the reality now.

And that’s the game. Distract us with unreal predictions that push the disaster down the road, while it is actually all around us.

I don’t have to list all the things happening right now, 2022, that are not due until 2030.

Nobody told Mother Nature the schedule.

Well, let’s look at one stat. Over 60% of the US is currently in a meteorological drought. More than 70% of those areas are in a five year or longer drought. All this in spring, when we should have snowpack runoff re-energizing the western rivers and watersheds. Droughts normally…

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MartinEdic

Mastodon: @martinedic@md.dm, Writer, nine non-fiction books, two novels, Buddhist, train lover. Amateur cook, lover of life most of the time!