In a changing climate, we are all at ground zero.

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2024 was the year we reached 1.5C above pre-industrial global temperatures. This isn't a 5 year average, but it is the first data point in the famous tipping-point threshold. A threshold which, once crossed, causes large and irreversible changes to the climate system. This first data point is 25 years ahead of original predictions. We are already feeling the danger signs across the globe.

Here in the US, consumerism and making money rule the day, and the current batch of people deciding things have chosen magical thinking, delusion, and/or nihilism. They are intent on taking us backward as fast as they can.

The following is a warning to pay attention to our priorities in ecological stewardship (from 53 years ago!)
"When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money." by Alanis Obomsawin, an Abenaki from the Odanak reserve, northeast of Montreal, Canada.

From the essay, “Conversations with North American Indians” by Ted Poole, in the collection of essays, “Who is the Chairman of This Meeting?”, edited by Ralph Osbourne, 1972