Rain, Finally Coming

THE MUCH NEEDED much anticipated rain finally came to my dry, drought stricken neck of the woods, and I, and I presume everybody else, am extremely grateful, to whomever. To God, to nature, to human enginuity, whatever. It started slowly, as a sprinkle, then, after several hours, began to rain harder, nice and steadily, nourishing our parched region with mucn needed nourishment. My personal gratitude to the elements is enormous. My yard, being full of maturetrees that I plantedmyself twenty one years and which I truly care about, will live to struggle and fight for surviver another day, in our land of icnreasing climate change, otter weather, more violent weather, and less moisture, as I see it. Climate change, already here and increasing fast, is our number one, primary problem and concern. Blocking a small part of the sun's radiation by spraying millions of tones of silver oxide into the atmosphere, is one porribility to alleviate global warming, but not nit be teh best answer. Changing our fossil fuel burning lifestyle is the best option, an option which we are beginning to pursie, albeit much to belatedly. The first cuple of days in October have been distincely summer like rather than autumnal, temperature-wise, and recent Octobers, over teh past fifteen or twenty years, have indeedery strongly tended to be summer rather than autuma weather wise. Somebody said that thsi coming wintere is going to be, allegedly, rather severe this year, but didnt go into details Mabe they were talking about ice and snow, bold weather, sub freezing or sub zero temperatures, etc.. Cimate change is, arguably, always happening, somewhere on Earth, and is as natural and normal as other forms of weather and climated. Tru enough. But that fact does nto prohibit human beings form adding to climate change by pumping their own addedpollution into the atmosphere, industrai chemicals, and, more significantly, heat. The accumualted mechanical industrial activity of mankind, including and particularly automotive transportation, is rapidly changing the EArth'sclimate,heating it upt rapidly, and if we dontdo something about it, something to stop or change it, we have no chanvce for a continued,sustained existece on this little fragile vulvernable planet as a species, and we humans will become extincet within a relatively short period of time, say, a few centuries if not before. Humanity and all the others species of life on Earth,billions of species of plant life and animal life, is currently grvely threateed by human activity, as we all know, or should by now. The situation is grave, teh situation is dire, and tat is the reason I keep harping on it in these essays: If I don't have a powerful, good essay written down or in my head ready tot upe into the internet, I type about climate change. Nothing is more urgent, orimportant. I won't live long enough to find out whether humanity survives it by reversing it, finding a miraculous marvelous way to eliminate global warming, by changing our human lifestyle, or whatever, but I hope that by the tie I die I have at least a vague general idea about the human future, about whether life of millions of species is going to thrive on this planetfor teh long haul, for centuries and millennia into the future, into the 26th century and beyond. I hope so,and i hope my life will have aided that process. The jury is still out on whether life on Earth will survive or be destroyed by people. Let's at least give it a chance, by changing our behavior.