Day: August 2, 2019

The little things – How green (is) my lawn

What’s wrong with this lawn?

Rain rain rain. All it has done is rain all last year and all this year. And when it rains here in Pittsburgh, it pours. The night before this video was taken, we had what looked like a small rain system on radar moving in.

Well, let me tell you, we had a wicked downpour. Five minutes after it began, the National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for Allegheny County.

Now normally, we get some kind of forewarning before this – a flash flood watch, an advisory something. This was like going from 0 to 100 in a second. The rain came through the screens and hit the inner windows.

So what does that have to do with my lawn?

Most of it should be dry and dead by now. But thanks to record-setting precipitation last year and now this year, a verdant, beautiful spring has been followed by a rainy summer. So the grass, for the first time in five summers, has remained remarkably green.

It’s the little things you notice when it comes to what’s happening with the climate. Perhaps earlier springs, later winters (yes)? Things like that. Anyway, look at my (all natural) lawn.

If you act now you can maybe avoid the worst of climate change. But you know you’re not going to | First Dog on the Moon | Opinion | The Guardian

From me: It’s a cartoon – so click on the link!

The rage inducing, sober reality of it, you could do it but you won’t

Source: If you act now you can maybe avoid the worst of climate change. But you know you’re not going to | First Dog on the Moon | Opinion | The Guardian

And Andrew Yang is getting beat up in the mainstream press for pretty much telling the truth. I know it sounds like conspiracy claptrap, but in this case, it’s true: they don’t want you to look too carefully at it. Don’t panic (no, really, don’t, it’s a waste of energy), don’t sell your stock, cash in your retirement, start hoarding, etc. The people who count need you to keep pushing away at your jobs so the CEO can be the last person on Earth to drive their Lamborghini into the sun.

Start being selfish. Start thinking about what YOU want to do before that’s no longer an option. And for God’s sakes, don’t help the bastards pile drive humanity into an early grave. Every little bit of ecological effort buys time.