It’s a great paradox that the two biggest stories of our time are invisible.
COVID for one. You can’t see it. And that’s what makes it difficult to convince, say, 700,000 bikers at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota this week that they should socially distance, wear masks and get vaccinated. Of course, you do see COVID when the hospital fills up, or your uncle dies.
Climate change is the other one. Like COVID, it’s been hard to get doubters to believe. Evidence was dismissed as "a little heat wave" or "ice melts, so what?"
Alarmingly, it’s now impossible to deny climate change. How else to explain horrific fires all over the world. (And more fires.) Crazy flooding in Germany and China. Unprecedented heatwaves. (July was the hottest month ever recorded.) Massive ice sheet shrinkage. Summer fire seasons out West that have become apocalyptic. Fact: Seven out of 10 of California’s largest wildfires occurred within the past decade. And of course, there’s a shortage of firefighters. Too much demand, not enough supply. (The job pays around $45,000 a year.)
In Maine, where I am currently, smoke from the fires out West and Canada filled the skies recently. I’ve been coming up here for 59 years, and I’ve only seen that once before. Last summer.
This week, the United Nations released a devastating report — technically from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, a body of scientists convened by the U.N. The report is a tome. The whole enchilada is 3,949 pages, with a 42-page summary.
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למה עשיתי רק 5 יחידות למה?? :cry:
למה עשיתי רק 5 יחידות למה?? :cry:
קלוד אתמול, 20:37