Heat Increasing, Life Diminishing

SCIENTISTS PREDICT that this year there will be a seventy percent decrease in the honey bee population in the United States. To make such predictions, scientists, biologists of all kinds but especially entymologists, utilize a fascinating mix of empirical factors, having to do with weather patterns, and growth patterns of insect habitat, among other factors. In each of the past few years, they have predicted various amounts of honey bee decrease, forty percent, fifty percent, and so forth, and most of the time, their predictions have proven accurate. It is verified that the decrease in the number of all species of insects, world wide, has, over the past few years, been alarmingly precipitous. The insect population of Europe, including all species, has declined by at least fifty percent in the past two decades. A roughly similar situation is ongoing in the United States. This year's predicted seventy percent decrease in honey bees in North America is particularly alarming; at this rate, honey bees will be extinct within a few years. Honeybees, like all other pollinating insects, are, of course, absolutely vital to the existence not only of humankind, but of every species of life on the planet. The usual suspects are to blame; habitat loss, environmental pollution, climate change, and pesticides. As the wind howls like a hurricane outside my window, and so howls with increasing frequency every month and year, I reflect that the amount of heat in the atmosphere has increased drastically in recent years, as has the amount of carbon, which of course absorbs the extra heat from sunlight. Its as simple as that. Any grade schooler is capable of understanding the basic cause of climate cahnge. By pretending not to, American conservatives, a majority of whom still deny climate change, reveal only their deliberate if unintentional ignorance of fundamental reality. The delusion of climate change denial is as delusional as, say, pretending that a presidential election was stolen, or that your God is going to return to Earth any day now. All these delusions tend, it seems, to be embraced by the same people, your basic white conservative Christian MAGA type. They tend, in general, to be not only climate change denniers, but also, environmental destruction deniers, and on those rare occasions when they do contemplate actual threats to life on earth, they immediately couch it in religious temrs, and they get right back to talking about their Lord Jesus Christ returning to Earth soon soon enough to render all climate and environmental threats irrelevant. Its hard to argue with that kind of stuff. I have acquired the habit of suggesting that it would be a nice way to honor and show respect for Jesus, by showing him a clean, healthy planet, human species, and environment when he arrives. Why not start now? I still like this approach, even though it doesn't seem to work, or, at least, they rarely have much to say in response. So the honeybee population will continue to plummet, glaciers will keep melting, and every year will keep getting hotter than the previous, as long as we humans don't start changing our ways and repairing the damage we have done, and are doing. The wind will blow ever harder, more storms, stronger storms will sweep across most areas, and weather related disasters will proliferate, the expense becoming enormous. It may be too late to save the planet, but it aint too late to try.