The Climate Change in Your Head
Complaining is getting us nowhere, fast
We’ve had forty years to get angry about global warming, to point fingers and identify the bad guys while communities burned and homes were swept away. It’s time to stop and reassess, because this thing is real, it’s here, and it’s not going away.
There’s a reason it’s called ‘climate change’. It is constantly evolving and, whether we know it or not, so are we, and fast. Faster than I would have thought possible even a few years ago. Did all our anger change things? Maybe, but more powerful forces worked behind that anger to shove deniers into reality.
Economics, for one. Actually it’s the big one, the reality the fossil fuel people with their bags of money couldn’t gloss over. Two big economic realities, macro and micro, stand out as agents of change.
The macro is (surprise!) the weather. Its severity and the reach of its effects accelerated way beyond those ridiculous schedules the oil people bought to convince us this thing was always on the horizon, never here.
Even they could not stop the weather from storming over that horizon like the fantasy backdrop it always was. The scenario planning scientists working for the oil companies always had the worst case situations in their pockets, never to be revealed. They knew.
