The Probable Future

   The Republicans have a plan to accelerate the decimation of the planet which they seriously hope to execute if re-elected to power.   Below is an excerpt from a POLITICO article about pivoting away from renewables and back to fossil fuels and also a projection of what North America will look like if, or, as I believe, when all the ice melts.  In the United States I do not see widespread adoption of renewable energy on the scales needed to halt global warming, and the world population continues to grow, so I predict the worst case scenarios which scientists have been warning us about for decades will materialize. We have entered what is called the Anthropocene extinction era where species are dying off and oceans are warming along with other serious planetary changes. Critics will dismiss this or say the Earth has warmed and cooled before so humanity will adapt. Perhaps, but not without tremendous social instability as countries and coastlines are inundated and crops fail and conflicts over resources increase-all because we lack the wisdom to proactively plan for what our intelligence has created.  (...click on photos to enlarge)

 

Bathroom Humor

    I passed a few days watching my granddaughter Renley last week, who will turn seven in August. The thing I remember most fondly was hearing her laughing while I made silly voices with her stuffed animals as we read books at night. She even was able to read my favorite book from childhood called  "Theodore Turtle" which, although tattered and torn, has been passed down to her. I can still recall my own mother reading it to me and being amused by how absentminded the turtle was. That is the privilege of reliving ones childhood as a grandparent, when generally one has less stress and more patience than the first time around-not working full time and doing all the other things parents have to do. 
    While in the east I saw this changing table in the bath house at French Creek State Park and had to laugh...Anyone who has ever had children understands the exasperation one sometimes feels at 3:30 in the morning when the baby won't stop crying...Patience is one of the primary qualities one learns from children...