Living in Bomb Time — 16
If we are going to have meaningful votes on Climate Change policy, people need to understand it. Right now, that’s not easy.
So, I wrote my first climate piece here on Medium almost 2 years ago, “It’s Raining in Antarctica and the Arctic is on Fire”. I wrote it in response to a piece by Shaunta Grimes about how she and her family moved from Las Vegas to Pennsylvania because of her concern about the effects of Climate Change on the world (Deep Adaptation: Is It The End of The World as We Know It?).
I thought her actions were intelligent, farsighted, and brave. It’s not easy to pack up and move to a new place because you foresee disaster unfolding in the place you live. It requires a clear eyed acceptance of reality that most people just don’t have.
For example, people wouldn’t leave their homes around Mount Saint Helen’s even when it was clear that the volcano was going to erupt. They were sure that the danger was being “over-hyped” and “exaggerated”. They were confident that they could “ride it out”.
Then the volcano blew off half the mountain in an instant and they all died. From the bodies that were found, it was clear that some of them finally realized they had been wrong, and tried to flee. Of course, when you wait until the last minute to…
