But we also need to be preparing for the inevitable.Buddy, that's what people like me have been trying get across since the seventies. ?✌️
Ever hear the story pilots tell about the runway? “The runway behind you doesn’t do you any good.”
I’ve been witness to hell slowly rearing its head, as all the watersheds that feed the Colorado River are drying up. I’ve watched these mountains north of here from 1986 to '92. Worked for a few ranchers who made me aware of the snow pack, in them thar mtns, with the practiced eye of three generations. Why? Because the irrigation that kept them alive, and gave me some of my work, depended on it, and the better they could guess the flow, the better they could prepare, and repair the ditches, the better shape their fields were in. So I learned the landmarks, basically a couple mountain slopes that “held their” water. As in irrigation district.
Now I’ve been back here for the past ten years. Winters are sad, an anemic affair, snow lines that used to hold well into summer, are gone by April, May. There were couple good years in there, still not measuring up. The afternoon clouds build like they always have, but rather than the cloud bursts that would have us running for cover and waiting the few minutes it dumped and then get back at. Because the clouds were clearing and a wonder cool evening was in the air, Now it’s all so anemic. Every rain or snow storm is a blessing and temporary reprieve, but no relief. We get an after misting now and then when we are luck.
I actually think the next biggest thing will be mental, spiritual health, how will people (individually and collectively) deal with a world, not of diminishing returns, but increasingly hostile living conditions? With ever more horrors to deal with. While the fat cats continue their idiot greed driven games. Excuse me, guess I’m a tad emotional today and am venting here.
But what can I say, we are dealing with Earth’s global heat and moisture distribution engine. Play those numbers, consider mass and momentum, and what the f we are doing to it. It’s all so fundamentally simple and basic and yes, settled, f’n settled, and we still have insane sociopaths with greedy minds playing every head game and brainwashing trick in the book to make people look away. While people are sweltering away in 115 temps. Wait till the power starts going out. It’s terrifying. And many people really and truly believe nothing untoward is afoot.