Time, Ticking

ACCORDING TO THE EXPERTS, at our present rate of production and consumption of material goods, we humans have about seventy five years left of reasonably decent planetary health left before the cumulative effects of cliamte change and all manner of human pollution and degradation of the Earth finally accumulate sufficiently to throw the planetary climate totally off kilter, with catastrophic amounts of added heat enrgy accelerating the motion of the atmosphere, aka wind, sufficiently to produce constant, violant, unliveable weather, a climate out of control, deadly rather than amenable to human life, like a planet gone wild, out of control, vastly departed from its former self. Granted, seventy five years is a fairly long ways off, but not really. Hell, soon I will be seventy five years old, and it certainly does not seem to me as if the time I have lived is all that lengthy. In fact, its gone by fast, and as we all learn by living, the longer we live, the older we get, the faster time seems to pass. Many explanations have bene offered to eplain this seemingly universal pehnomenon; none totally fill the bill. One "expert" suggested that the older we get, the smaller, as a percantage of our lives, any given amount of time becomes. Fr a young whild two weeks is a very long time, a high percntage of their life thus far. Not os foraloderfolks, t wom two wees,or yws months, or two years goes by in a seeming flash. You could think that we could do something about that, something to reduce the sensatin of our lives passing like lightening; maybr a pill or something. A pill which seems to make time go more slowly.But that would probably only bore us. At my age, seventy oe, I won't live long enough to experience the worst effects of climate change, even though I am, we are, let's make no mistake, experiencing them now. The climate, where I live,and where everyoe els lives, has changed. Unless I'm dreaming, people, most people, all over the world are now agreeing on this. climate change denial is vanishing as it becomes more and more difficult to deny the obvious. It lokd like I am going to get out of her in teh nick of time. Even if I live to be a hundred, I won't see the worst ofit, but, on second thought, I will see as much if nor more than I want. The scientists keep shortening their estimates of the amount of time we have left before we suffer severs climate change, and recently the number seventy five years is being suggested. There are, we now think, about seventy five years left of sane climatic conditions before the Earth's atmosphere collapses in chaos, with straight line winds of perpas hundreds of milse per hour, wildly fluctuating temperatures from extreme cold to heat, and constant violent storms, tornadoes, and hurricanes. All this is coming just as sure as can be, and we must do two things. One, we must start to do something about it to change it, and two, we must begin to prepare to live with that which we cannot change and control. Between now and then humanity will doublless learn much more about Earth's atmosphere, weather, and climate, and will develop methods of ameliorating, to whatever extent, the worst effects of global warming, We can slow it down, maybe even stop and reverse it. We can make Earth green again, We can control population growth, and so forth. As I age, and approach the end of my life, my growing obsession is with the preservation of life on Earth long after my lifetime. I don't have children, but all children ultimately belong to all of us, in a sense, and I want the children of the future to come into and live in a healthy world, and maybe remember us.