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By Rick Sklader in Minnesota
The rate of rapid destructive change of our entire climate and all the earth’s
distinct and interconnected ecosystems is as stunning as it is horrifyingly
frightening. The pace of these changes is quite difficult to come to and wrap
ones head around considering that what we’re witnessing has occurred in a
nanosecond when compared to geological or cosmological time.
I was born after World War 2 and grew up here in the greater Minneapolis area.
Even after moving to the West Coast in late summer 1981, Minnesota continued
experiencing relatively normal winters, which to you neophytes means sub-zero
temperatures and lots and lots of snow. Sometime in the late 90s Minnesota
started warming in the fall and throughout the winter although sporadically at
first.
Our first winter back here was 2010/11 and it was the cold snowy weather of
old, but that’s no more. It is December 2nd. I just checked the time and it’s
1:17am, but outside it’s 48 degrees Fahrenheit when it should be 18. Still, the
local weather clown declared yesterday was a “top ten weather day”. I’m hoping
by this weekend that this extended episode of The Twilight Zone will end even
though the handwriting so to speak, is everywhere.
Other species on the planet have been responding to these alterations in the
climate now for decades. There’s multiple reports in a range of scientific
journals (look them up) that discuss how every insect species globally has
either been moving north or south away from the equator or to higher
elevations, which had been going on for at least the past 20 years and perhaps
longer. Many species have already gone extinct because they had no place to go
or were deemed unimportant to the global bloodsucking class. Similarly we can
no longer talk of invasive species as adaptation to adverse circumstances is a
natural process for survival.
I mentioned this before, but it’s well worth repeating. Almost every bird species is getting smaller.
This is an evolutionary adaptation caused exclusively by changes to the climate
system caused by capitalism choking Earth’s atmosphere with Greenhouse gases.
For many years we’ve been told that Polar Bears could go extinct due to
shrinking Arctic ice. Polar bears have been migrating South and mating with
other bear species to survive.
These changes, drastic as they are, still do not seem to be sufficient to move
the mass of humanity. Maybe the fact that we’re running out of what’s needed to
make all the crap we don’t need that just makes us feel emptier and those
things we really do need (nutritious food and clean water only two prime
examples) we can’t since it no longer exists or do you honestly believe that
every supermarket is in cahoots to only sell 5 kinds of wild fish while they
increase farm raised “fish”. which is actually accelerating the degradation of
the oceans the principal source of our oxygen.
Before I forget there’ll be more rain than snow in the Arctic where it’s been
warming twice as fast as anywhere on the planet meaning more intense and longer
lasting Polar Vortexes deep in the heart of Texas as well as melting permafrost
which is holding countless tons of methane which no species can breathe. Once
we believed we’d be dead before the worst of this nightmare came to pass. No
longer.
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