Saving Earth: Don’t Fall Into Climate Change Fatalism

You reap what you sow. The chickens have come home to roost. The ship has sailed. The s**t has hit the fan. The English language has no shortage of idioms describing lost opportunities and the consequences of failing to act. And we’ve failed to act on human-caused climate change. It is here, with a vengeance. 

Forest fires burning near Ljusdal, Sweden on July 18, 2018.

We see it in massive wildfires sweeping across the western United States, Scandinavia, Canada and Siberia; the brutal heat waves and rising seas; dying coral reefs and acidifying oceans; the destruction of the Arctic and melting of Antarctica; crop failures and supercharged hurricanes.

We told you so, over and over, but you wouldn’t listen. (There, I got that off my chest.)

Read the opinion piece by Peter H. Gleick from the HuffPost - “Saving Earth: Don’t Fall Into Climate Change Fatalism.”