It’s warm up in them thar’ mountains — this time the Alps
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Posted on December 5, 2006
Filed Under Global warming/Climate change, Deep ecology, Greenhouse gas emissions, Ecological hope, Consumer culture, Fossil fuel dependency, Environmental disasters, Earth spirituality
Fostering Ecological Hope
Tonight from Margaret Swedish:
The Alps without snow — in December.
A week or so ago, I posted about the problem that the international skiing World Cup competition was having finding mountains on which to ski. Now comes the story from researchers saying that the Alps are experiencing their warmest period in 1,300 years.
No birds. No snow in the mountains. No, I don’t think I’m going to like this new world, the one we are headed for unless we make some drastic changes in a big hurry.
The evidence mounts. Climate change is here and now, already altering the world as we know it. There are those who say all we need to do is adapt. Okay, that would be sad resignation if we were dealing with what is now a new status quo. But we are only at the beginning of the changes, and a century of warming from the CO2 already spewed into the atmosphere is already set. So if you consider how dramatic and fast these changes are happening, with more destabilization of climate still to come, well, you get the idea of why waiting any longer to take action seems certain to commit humanity to a very, very great disaster –
… and incaluable loss accompanied by an ecological grief perhaps not experienced by this Earth since the last great extinction.
Don’t get paralyzed. Get busy!
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