5:30 pm Columbus Ohio and the smoke is all around
Good God in Butter this is depressing. And yet we have
a party, much of the media, Joe Manchin, and TPTB in lock step with the fossil fuel industries who right now are killing the supportive capacities of our home aka the earth. Until our sun becomes a red giant the earth will be here but humans not so much.
Sunday evening we had a short thunderstorm where you could here and feel it coming in but you could not see the rain clouds because of the smoke but the rain fell through all that forest fire smoke and Dog only knows what kind of potentially toxic compounds those rain drops brought down with them.
this is the end of the world as we know it.
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but maybe it'd help maintain courage and perspective to keep in mind that fire has always been a critically important, necessary tool that nature uses to maintain healthy environments. That rain has always fed the soil with smoke particulates, and that fire actually accelerates release of most nutrients from organic matter into the soil when it burns instead of decaying over time. Etcetera x incredible complexity.
Doesn't make it not a disaster of unimaginable scope, but it's incredibly complex alterations to incredibly complex systems. It's not all loss, and it's not the end of the world. And even if it ultimately changes our lives in ways we don't want, at least the planet's adjustments are really even not all about us.
this develop for nearly 60 years. For half really thought we'd stop before it got this bad, even proud of things we Democrats mostly managed to do against great opposition, really feeling change itself would force action.
But since, as more and more people instead seemed willing to run the world off a cliff to act out tribal antagonisms...
Horrifying, sickening, all the emotional reactions -- over this century of insanity especially. I was a passionate gardener for decades; my world changed dramatically long ago, and my personal losses and adjustments were wrenching long ago, and of course continue.
So I've just had more time to arrive at grim acceptance of what's too late to stop and determination to work with what we have. It's never too late for what we CAN do.
