Does that image disagree with my topic? It appears that it does and here’s why. I don’t live in an area that has been impacted significantly- yet. So I don’t have pictures to post on this topic. So, I thought I’d show you what it is supposed to look like. But I’m not going to tell you where I am, if you want to come here you have to guess it. If I announce my location, everyone will come here and I won’t be able to afford to live here. I can’t really afford to now, but I’m staying as long as I can. It still gets down to 60 most nights and sometimes less. I’ve seen the thermometer on my porch reach 90, that’s Fahrenheit, but it has never stayed there more than minutes. And I’m cold a lot of the time, but I refuse to turn on the heat and waste energy. I do mentally chastise my nearest neighbor because I can hear their air conditioning most of the time. They do waste energy, as well as pretty much every public building I find when I go to town.
I do not understand people who refuse to acknowledge what is happening. Even if a person NEVER turns on a news program, they can’t be so stupid not to have heard about what is happening pretty much everywhere except here.
I called my cell phone company the other day to report a billing concern. Business only took seconds so we got to chatting and the agent asked me how global warming was impacting us here. I told her, not a problem. But, how is it where you are, I asked in reply. I could hear the stress in her voice when she told me that they had orders to evacuate “But people here have nowhere to go and no way to get there… and there are so many children in the streets. I worry about the children,” at which time I heard the tears she couldn’t stop. I asked where she was and she replied the Philippines.
It about broke my heart. I told her, “I sure wish I knew how I could help.” What I said just sounded too trivial. She tried to assure me that someone will rescue them, they would be ok.
I’m 71 years old and I’ve felt helpless since I was three years old and my younger sister was being beaten for having been born with a birth defect. I’ve been homeless much of my adult life. But that day I felt more helpless than ever in my life and all I could do was cry.
I fought back against the handyman with the weedeater who got too close to my Milkweeds and chased him completely out of the yard. I almost got evicted because I got upset over the nest of pollinators my landlord ordered a different handyman to kill.
But alone, I’m pretty helpless. Please watch the news, and I mean every day. Let yourself see the devastation. Listen when they list how many construction workers died of heat stroke each day, how many died from fires, or how many died in floods. If you feel that pain that I felt on the phone that day, then you will do something. Think about those children who won’t live to ever be adults, if nothing is done very soon. You won’t waste energy. Turn any air conditioning ten+ degrees warmer. There is one presidential candidate that is daring to talk about her plan to combat global warming, but I won’t go into the details here. And, if nothing else, share this.