Talking Climate Change, Again...and Again

CLIMATE CHANGE may be the most often written about topic on this essay website. It certainly is the most important, here, there, or anywhere. It goes directly to our survial,like nuclear bombs, and human environmental pollution, which are closely related.That,and Donald Trump. Essays concerning Trump keep piling up here, like cat feces in a neglected litter box. This website came into existence on Occupy Wall Street day, September 17, 2011, quite by chance, before Trump made his dramatic golden escalator descent into politics and political crime in June, 2015. But ever since he descended on golden moving stairs into historical ingnominy, Trump has been impossible to ignore. And it'll be awhile, unless god and good fortune intervene, until we can enjoy the fresh air and supremely pleasant liberation from forced attention giving to Don the Con-vict. After that, the historains weill take over, as to an extent, they already have, getting an early start on a sordid subject. More than a quarter million books have been writen about Napoleon Bonaparte,and Abraham Lincoln is a close second. Jesus of Nazerath must be in there, someplace, although the New Testament is a hard act to follow. Who knows how many books will be wrtten about Trump before the day is done? New books are still coming out about Lincoln and Washington and all the other big names, and the pattern is, the more recent the publication date, the better the book. Our modern historians are standing on the shoulders of giants, as Isaac Newton said he was doing in science. Historical knowledge and writing keep improving because research keeps chugging along. You'd be amazed at how much new information, often recently discovered primary source material and documents, is "unearthed", uncloseted, in the dim recesses of ancient libraries, attics, and basements, among othr places, daily, and yearly. We're still not finished with Jesus, Napoleon, and Lincoln, despite the vast trove of extant material, available to all who like to spend a romantic, cloistered few weeks among the dusty stacks. All well and good. But here, on this website tucked away in a remote corner of a nearly infinite internet on a small planet in a remote galaxy in a universe of trillions of galaxies, let it be said, whether or not anyone is listening, that climate change on planet Earth was the driving, seminal, most mentioned topic of short essays. Again, the assertion is that this is because it is the most important subject of discussion in the world. What, if anything, trumps it? (oops, sorry). We preserve our human cultural heritage. The Library of Congress has something like forty million books and objects, or is it now one hundred million? It keeps growing. Thomas Jefferson's much expanded book collection, which numbered a paltry few thousand when Jefferson donated it to America, could conceivably reach about a billion books and other objects before this century ends. Thank goodness for digital information presrvation. Otherwise we'd have to build acomplex of skyscrapers and underground warehouses to store it all. (Hell, we'd do it.) I once had a personal library of several thousand books. When my father died, I inherited several thoousand more.I was overwhelmed, and understood that computers would soon make books obsolete,(which they have not). I gave them all away, to a friend with a book store. He was overwhelmed. Spread the wealth. I can write as many essays on climate change on the internet as I pretty please, and, lord willing, will.