What about our environment?

That reminds me of my childhood. Standing in snow covered London zoo in the freezing cold because dad hated crowds.

I likely should have reviewed this, but years ago somebody proposed the "Butterfly Effect".

(A butterfly flutters it swings in Venezuela and a tornado occurs in North America. Something like that anyway.) The Butterfly Effect, I think, applies to climate science.

While something like "convection" (hot air rises) can be explained by simple equations. Predicting climate is next to impossible. Not because the equations are individually complex, its just that there are too many of them.

It really isn't surprising that the more complex a climate "model" becomes, the less accurate. A Chaotician may try to make sense of the immense numbers of variables and their relationships, the butterfly doesn't try. I suspect the results come out the same.

www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/environment/lagoon/2021/07/02/starving-manatee-titusville-struggles-find-food/7838322002/


This is why we need to care for our environment.. it's not just for us.

That's awful.

So sad...

You tend to overlook these side effects of natural disasters...

A friend on social media , Mike F Shaw wrote this..
I think if the earth could speak this probably is what it would say


Mother, what are you doing?

Nothing.

What do you mean nothing, have you seen your world, fires destroying countries in Europe and the Americas, floods sweeping across others not engulfed in flames. Plagues mutating out of control getting stronger each time so we struggle to fight them off. One half of the population dying of obesity while the other half starving to death. Reefs are dying, species extinct never to return, vast lands ripped down to deserts.

This isn’t my world, this is yours human, this is what you created in your quest for riches yet only a privilege few hoard the wealth from the poverty stricken. You live for only the day, the twenty four hours you exist in without forethought of the next twenty four. You cast aside what you no longer want to replace it with something that does the same thing but just a little faster or brighter like magpies chasing the glittering. The waste you pile high means the tides and the temperatures rise too because this life isn’t infinite. You rip apart the very fabric of life so you can feast upon its bones in your ravenous appetite to have everything on nothing but the rich men’s whim. This isn’t my world human, this is yours.

Ours? So what do we do?

Do as you always have, ignore the warnings I send to remind you of yours and your homes fragility, keep believing you are immortal and nothing can bring about your extinction. Your arrogance that something as simple as a bee cannot be your demise, a virus is nothing to fear. Stay on this path for even I can no longer deviate you from your end.

Will that not actually mean our end will in fact come? This is madness.

Your existence has been madness since the day I allowed you to walk from the swamp, you understood nothing about who you are or your place within the planets existence. You took what you wanted even though I provided everything you needed but need was never enough, want was all you demanded. I have warned too many times and yet you ignored me.

What happens now?

I leave you to your own destruction, I need do no more so I do nothing, I no longer counter your actions to try and keep a balance. I let the kilter continue until you can no longer stand upon this home, the wasteland will come.

But that will mean our end.

Yes.

But why?

Because I say again, you heed no warnings, you think you are beyond both me and all I provide and it’s never enough. I can no longer fight against your greed. You will be gone, I shall remove you with nothing more than a virus, those that survive will burn upon the wasteland and I shall wash this home clean, I can renew, I have done it many times but I cannot survive you even though I have tried but my patience is defeated. You had it all human, you had it all but that was never enough. Now I do nothing, I leave you to your own demise and await my rebirth without you. You heeded nothing.

Mike F Shaw

...and the warming continues

www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/08/rainfall-greenland-ice-cap-first-time-on-record-unprecedented-melting-climate-change/

Simply put. NOT GOOD. The signs are all around us and so many still deny this is happening.

I have come to a conclusion which actually gives some really difficult things to work out.

The only real way out of this is to halt, then reduce the population of the world. We will be able to reduce the 'carbon footprint' of each individual person in the world but, given say a 20% reduction in someone's carbon footprint (world average), during the same period the world population may well have increased by 20% so the actual reduction is zero. You get where I am coming from?

The issue is how to do this without doing anything nasty.

I honestly think history will decide that it was my generation that 'had it all'. 

But I wonder which generation will get the blame for it all.