Living in Bomb Time — 23

This Earth Day, here’s the last hope I have.

Because it really is, “Now or Never”.

Churchill famously observed.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing — after they’ve tried everything else.

That’s where I find hope this Earth Day.

Hope.

That after having tried every possible excuse for not dealing with Global Warming and the Climate Change it brings, we will finally do the right thing.

Saving ourselves, by saving the world together.

The alternative is starkly clear.

Shelled Ukrainian Apartment Building

IT REALLY IS “NOW OR NEVER” TIME.

The seven hottest years on record have all happened in the last seven years.

In 2021, global temperatures were between 1.1 and 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) above the preindustrial average. This happened despite it being a La Niña year in the Pacific Ocean, a weather pattern which tends to cool the planet.