The fierce urgency of now

This week, I was supposed to be on vacation. We had intended to head up to the Trinity mountains to do some hiking in this beautiful wilderness. 

We ALMOST cancelled our trip, though, when we started hearing about how dangerous the air quality was there, due to the fires in Oregon. 

Last week, the Washington Post published a story on the people in Oregon, who, though experiencing the fire, still deny the reality of climate change. HERE. 

It is shocking to me to see how resistant we flawed humans can be to recognizing the reality, when we feel like its not in our interest to do so. 

That so human reality showed itself again last week in yet another guise. You may have read about the nurses who are caring for patients dying from Covid. Most of these people are unvaccinated, and many of them beg their nurses for the vaccine. The nurses must be the ones to tell them that it is now too late. 

The good news, with regard to climate, is that it is not yet too late for us. It is getting close. An excellent piece in Bloomberg (not exactly a liberal PR organ) makes so clear the fierce urgency of this challenge. HERE. 

Because it is not too late, I am going to do my hiking this week, but I am going to come back and get to work. 

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