There are times I yell at my car radio.
Yeah, it's stupid, but boy does it feel good. The latest was today listening to a story on my local NPR station KUOW. The Pacific Northwest is having a bumper crop of berries this year. They're coming in earlier (3 weeks) and larger. For some crops which grow for the length of the season this will be a windfall. Record profits. So what got me screaming at the radio? It wasn't what they said but what they didn't say. Not one single word about Why we're having this record season. Climate. Climate change. Global warming. None of them were mentioned. A brief, "The mild winter we had this year" is as close as they got.
Here's a story about climate change visibly and dramatically changing our environment and they couldn't muster up even a peep about it. On public radio. We're so fucked.
So I yelled at my radio in frustration that the narrative is still being set by the oil companies and the Koch brothers.
At least we'll have strawberries and cream at the Apocalypse. Bon appetite!