Things are happening to the natural world which already are affecting human civilization. Weather disasters are becoming more frequent. Natural environments have begun to show real strain. The world we have come to know is vanishing as we watch, being replaced with a world in rapid transition.
The expectation is that these ongoing changes will accelerate. The implications for civilization are almost unfathomably bad, causing a large fraction of the population to reject them out of hand.
What I intend to do with this blog is report things about this process of change from my own point of view. In other words, I will report events as I watch them in morbid fascination. Along with reports I will inject my own interpretations.
Specifically I am speaking of global warming and related effects like the acidification of the oceans.
Very few people are familiar with what is going on with global warming. Some reject the whole thing as a socialist hoax. Others accept it, but don't have a good feel for the severity of the situation.
There is a lot to cover, and a lot to digest. It might take a year or so for this to really sink in.
Along with a healthy dose of doom I intend to sprinkle in some sustainability. Not the expensive, technological, fashionable kind of sustainability, but real, down-to-earth, rubber-meets-the-road sustainability: basic technologies and practices that might very well make the difference for many of us and our children.
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