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Dr. P-J's Blog

You Can't Make This Stuff Up

10/25/2021

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​A dark future is clanging its bell at my window.
Thunderbolt and lightening, very very frightening,
that same storm that ravaged parts of the Pacific Northwest lately.
But Oroville Dam picked up 20’ of water I heard
There is a light snow-pack on the western mountains.

Gotta build up that ice on the mountains to recharge the water table
or else we’ll survive because we divine the production of clean water from sea water.

The hydrological cycle is starting to wobble.
If we are passive, it will get worse.

We already must adjust our thinking
about how and where we build our homes
in the coming relentless storms.

So we can rebuild the same way in hurricane ravaged areas near Houston,
or we can design homes in safer places,
or safer homes for places with risk of predictable natural disasters.

If we stop all carbon today
it will not cure massive changes
in world weather patterns.


Grow local economies with
green investments in homes
Energy-efficiency retrofit and solar panels . . .
tax relief for capitalization than puts local people to work.


The past predicts the future
but TODAY DECIDES TOMORROW.


~ Dr. P-J
10/25/21
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1 Comment
Diane Charles
11/9/2021 09:28:28 pm

I wondered why no one commented especially me. I certainly agreed with your comments. Remember (maybe not) I used to carry a sign which warned against apathy? I think I must have succumbed. Jesus! Is that pathetic or is it because I am at 77 more concerned with my own impending decrepitude ( a battle I am barely holding my own in, let alone Ron's). In the words of the late great Jessie Jackson, (is he alive, decaying or dead?) Keep Hope Alive!

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