Perhaps Some Climate Hope
I may be too old to see it ...
Mourning Mankind, just a few days ago, was my personal admission of defeat. Having noticed an existential threat to our species in 2007, everything I’ve done since then has been aimed at least in part in averting this. The election of Donald Trump has, at its core, oil money applied to the big tobacco playbook. This means at least another four years … and perhaps forty, wherein the United States heaves and grinds in an effort to maintain our collective recto-cranial inversion over the aforementioned existential threat.
This Weathered episode with Maiya May offers a different view. Things are bad, but not hopeless, in Millennial world.
The big concern here? Do we get to continue the hopeful conversion to renewables in a world where China is coming apart at the seams? So much of the improvement has rested on China’s centralized investment driven economy.
There’s a thing on the margins that is shaping up to perhaps change things VERY quickly, and I’m sure concern over this is part of the anti-science dogma of the American right. Recent studies find that not just our oceans are full of microplastics, our bodies are, too. Fully 25% of this type of pollution is due to the normal wear of car tires over the road.
If microplastics are the enormous threat they appear to be, a rapid move from large four wheeled vehicles to lighter, cleaner electrics, and a restoration of public transit, would do much to dispel our oil addiction.
Maybe some of you kids can turn your attention to this … before it’s too late.