Coming To Terms With Reality; Facing Doom

FINALLY, we're really starting to see the effects of climate change, and more American conservatives who heretofore have denied its existence, are beginning to accept reality. Recent surveys indicate that as many as seventy percent of the American people now believe in human made climate change. Reality isn't pretty. The weather is going to continue getting and being crazy, with extreme events and conditions world wide. The latest information is dire. If we don't start significantly reducing carbon emissions by 2030, we're done. This is just as surely as if a large asteroid were approaching Earth on collision course. Every time we look up, the asteroid is closer, and now collision seems imminent, unavoidable. And the crazy thing is, I might live long enough to see it happen, to see climate change totally disrupt the world's climate. I'm sixty three now, so, if I live another twenty years, to, say, 2038. I might see some really crazy climate changes where I live, like triple digit hear all summer long, every year, and the growing season extending year round. Presumably, at some time in the future we will eliminate fossil fuels, and reduce carbon emissions to zero. The question is: when? Its happening now, and needs to keep happening. Even without any help from the American government, solar and wind energy are increasing around the world, giving us hope. We are replacing fossil fuels. Not fast enough, though. We need to hurry. As it stands now, ocean level will rise enough to inundate much of the world's land, and agricultural production will decrease. We've already raised the planet's temperature one degree, and we are going to raise it at least one more, no matter what we do. That will be dangerous. Its too late to stop human suffering due to climate change, because its happening now, and will only increase. Scientists started talking about global warming in the nineteen sixties, but, very few people listened, or cared. Greenhouse gases and global warming have been known about for two hundred years, and we're still ignoring it.