Transitioning To Survival

FOR THE FIRST TIME, just recently, New York City integrated electrical power produced by wind turbines into its distribution grid. Along the east coast, wind farms, consisting of dozens of windmill turbines, are being built and put online to help power, and perhaps to even to eventually completely power, the huge population along America's eastern seaboard. Wind farms are not the most attractive scenery in the world, but they can be built and located in relatively remote places, and are certainly no uglier than a field of oil wells; indeed, old worn out oil fields can and probably should, if there is justice in the universe, be replaced by wind farms. Both wind and solar energy are coming online auspiciously rapidly, the amount of energy produced growing by leaps and bounds, by the day. This is cause for hope. Meanwhile, the news regarding climate change gets worse seemingly by the day. A new study released about heat waves clearly indicates that they are occuring with greater frequency than ever, are more severe, and last longer. What used to be an average eight day heat wave is now a dozen days. Increasing drought will be a major feature of climate change, indeed, already is. Drought stricken areas will increase in size, and agricultural production will begin to decline, as it apparently already has in the United States. Over the last few years, grain crop production has declined a little more than ten percent in America. The American west and mmidwest seem to be literally drying up. We must do more, much more, than merely quit using fossil fuels and transition to wind, solar, and other sustainable sources of energy. We must reverse the damage already done, and the enormous damage soon to be done. The massive planetary deforestation which has accompanied the ascent of homo sapiens to global supremacy must be reversed. We must now begin to reforest, globally, fast. At some point, and at some level, the human population must stop icnreasing, must level out, and, perhpas, decrease somewhat. The exact numbers are, of course, subject to various studies and opinions. If we don't change course, there will come a future in which the universe is stuffed full of human beings, and their material possessions. Sea level rise must be dealt with, as we are already dealing with it, and we must increase the amount of fresh water available for human consumption and agriculture. Also, the increased supply of fresh water must be moved from the oceans to the land, especially the driest, mmost barren parts of the world, such as Saharan Africa and the American southwest. All of this is perfectly feasible, with our current level of technology. During the next few years, climate change is going to become much worse, rapidly. Millions of people will be forced to flee the ocean front and rising ocean, millions more will have to abandon burned out areas. The economic disruption is already severe, and growing worse. The only way out is to motivate the entire world to cooperate in massive terraforming projects here on Earth, and drastic, fundamental changes to our personal lives and societies. It will be inconvenient and painful, but we can do it. We have no other choice, except death.