Future Fridays: Will We Learn?

Will We Learn?

With the people who are in power running around trying to stick their fingers in the holes of the dam about to break, let us, who think we have no power, take a moment as we sit at home, and reflect on the up-coming climate crisis.

We think this pandemic is bad... Just wait.

It took too long for some in government to heed the call of the Center for Disease Control and the World Health Organization.   The White House office designed to manage and prepare for pandemics had been closed. Some in power did not believe the public health experts and scientists for too long.  Some thought it would not affect them, so why bother to be cautious.  And look where we are...

Sound familiar?

Climate change is here and just right over there at the same time, threatening the human species as well as millions of other species.

We need to gird up our loins and claim the power we do have, from those who have power but have bungled the handling of this pandemic crisis. How?  Well for  starters... through our ballots, our voices, and our actions demanding:

• that a new office be opened in the White House, as well as a committee be established to address climate change in both chambers of Congress
• that billions and trillions of dollars be allotted to slow the progression of climate change
• that we actually heed the scientists and do what they say
• and finally, that we walk and chew gum at the same time... Meaning addressing the pandemic and climate change at the same...because both are threatening us now.

Will we learn?

For our children's and grandchildren's sake... I surely hope so.

- Kathleen

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