Climate Change Effects Are Not Equally Distributed
The cartoon here has many societal implications surrounding the idea that our planet is actually a small island on which everyone is affected by the vast damage we’re doing to our environment.
The truth, however, is a bit different. The world’s poorest people are disproportionately affected by the storms, wildfires, and loss of land mass caused by sea-level rise, not to mention the pollution in our skies and waterways.
Rich people will not become climate refugees, like those whose homelands have become uninhabitable, nor will they suffer from the loss of natural resources.
An example: Southern California is known for its freeways–a total of 650 miles in all. Did you know that people who live within a mile of a freeway have rates of cancer that are several time higher than those who don’t? Guess what: rich people don’t live in these graveyards.
When 2GreenEnergy was launched in 2009, one of its most important claims was the one Pete Buttigieg makes here, i.e., that a nation’s commitment to cleantech is perhaps the single most determining point to its future economic prosperity.
When my childhood friends came to learn that I’d become an author of materials of environmental sustainability, they sometimes asked for my opinions on climate change. I explain that because climate change is a science, it’s inappropriate to apply the term “opinion” or “belief” to the subject. We have opinions on things like politics, art, sports figures, justice, literature, and philosophy–but not chemistry, physics, or math.
I had to laugh when I saw this.
Anyone who wishes to see an organized human civilization survive the next 50 years needs to hope that the GOP agenda embodied in Project 2025 loses at the polls on November 5th.
I’m reminded of the cartoon in which a corporate CEO is looking out of his conference room window and sees the entire city and surrounding countryside in flames. He tells his people, “We have to monetize this.”
In a post yesterday, I quoted a boyhood friend who claims that Kamala Harris has no career accomplishments, and thus is not qualified to be president. Her resume summary at left speaks to that.
Two friends from my youth are interacting on Facebook. One posted the meme at left and the other wrote: So true! Kamala never WON any election and yet, she could be our next President. So sad.
Henry Price writes: I don’t get it. I’m a veteran and no one anywhere has ever asked me to apologize for it. Who’s asking? Where? This veteran wants to know!
I can’t comment on the meaning behind Trump’s new outfit, only to say that he has already cultivated 100% of the white supremacist vote, and there is nothing he could possibly do to lose a single ballot from the constituency that could be called “the hateful morons.”
