Nature does not take sides

Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts

I hear the cracks on partially frozen pond... and all those melting glaciers...
 ... polar bears are losing their only home
     while
     geese enjoy this piece of melted world...

   Nature does not take sides...

Something SO Familiar

Moore's Swamp, Concord, Massachusetts

Jorgen Randers writes in his 2052 book, a global forecast for the next 40 years:

My third initial reaction to the summary of my forecast... is despair. Fear of losing it all... this is not fear for loss of my own well-being. I am comfortable now, and will be long dead when crisis strikes. It is more intense anxiety about the fact that humanity will voluntarily destroy the wonderful world as we know it... In short, I am scared on behalf of what it has taken nature hundreds of millions of years to create...

... Piping Plovers...

... Chipmunks are not threatened... not yet...
   ... she looks at me... I look at her... something SO familiar in her eyes...

CO2 brings Pleasure

Mauna Loa Observatory, Mauna Loa, Hawai'i aka Big Island

On May 2nd Mauna Loa Observatory released atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) data for the month of April. For the first time on record, the average amount of carbon dioxide — the main long-lived gas responsible for global warming — in the air passed 410 parts per million (ppm) for an entire month... Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist at TTU is quoted on multiple websites:

As to why the continued growth... is so alarming, it is because it is a continued indicator that we are conducting an inadvertent and unprecedented experiment with our planet, the only home we have. It’s as if we discovered that something we eat every day is causing our body to run a fever and develop all kinds of harmful symptoms — and instead of cutting back, we keep on eating it. If that isn’t alarming, I don’t know what is.

It is NOT... and Why? Because we humans love GOOD LIFE... A game of golf. Skiing slopes. A trip to Hawai'i. No-sweat summers. Virtual worlds... and all those SPECIALS... these are all CO2 pleasures and feel-goods of our lives... Are we ready to give them up? For the only home we have?... Marching on into the future... with SOLAR, WIND, and GREEN... the buzzwords that make us feel good about our feel-goods...