Our natural,
survivalist skills deny us entry into the space that allows us to understand
climate change.
Traits have evolved over time limiting us in such a way that
we can best understand the moment and so how we deal with “the now”.
Humans, seemingly exclusively among the world’s life forms, plan
for what is ahead, but that is almost entirely a sophisticated extension of
what exists.
Rare among us are those who plan for something different and
those who do are mostly considered catastrophists or extremists and so are
forced to the edge of society.
Most of those devoted to alerting humanity to the dilemmas
of climate change are professionals, deep into atmospheric science and while
many of the world’s decision makers accept the proved science, there appears to
be a disconnect between scientific facts and understandings, and what they
claim is the “real world”.
That real world, however, continues to make its case and
another weather event driven by climate change is about to engulf New York
City.
North East America prepares for a snow storm and hurricane-force
winds that it is predicted will both seriously disrupt and disable a city that
is still recovering from Hurricane Sandy that swept along the U.S. east coast
in October, 2012.
A story in the New York Times headed: “Travel Bans in Place as Northeast Prepares for Harsh Weather” says millions of residents in the
Northeast are preparing for the storm that will bring near hurricane-force
winds along the coast and as much as three feet of snow. People in the area have
been urged to get off the roads and stay indoors.
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