66 bar rises 30.07 2mph NNE dew-point 56 Sunset 7:22 Summer night, cool and clear
Waning Gibbous Thunder Moon
National Geographic Channel had a program called Six Degrees Can Change the World. Geez was it depressing. A lot of the early stuff was material I’d heard before, but as it went on from 1 degree to 2 degrees, then to 3 degrees with the Amazonian rain forest becoming a scrub land and the Greenland ice sheet melting down and other very nasty stuff, I began to feel powerless, a victim before the inevitablity of increasing energy consumption which will drive the very worst scenarios into being.
Those of you who know me well know I don’t like victim status. A passive victim does not act, but allows reality to act on them. Not my way. So, once I got over the feeling of powerlessness, I reminded myself that I have made several distinct decisions related to effecting change. The Sierra Club work. The optimal suburb/exurb home. Keeping the red car intact. Our plan to purchase a hybrid or all electric when Kate retires. Growing vegetables. Turning off the computer at night. Working over the next few years to find even more ways major and minor that we can reduce our carbon footprint and encourage alternative energy. I am not a victim, nor do I want to be a rich world antagonist of mother earth’s. The struggle of our time.
