An issue that is of apocalyptic importance is global warming. This administration takes it no more seriously than a guy who gets no exercise, eats entirely unhealthy foods, drinks and smokes heavily but insists that if the doctor can only guess at all the problems he's likely to have in the future and can't tell him the exact day he will become sick, with what disease and the day he will die, then there's no reason to take the threat seriously.
With the warning we've been given just recently in the gulf coast this is one of our most pressing problems. Consider . . . .
- Last year, the science textbooks had to be rewritten. They used to say, "It's impossible to have a hurricane in the South Atlantic." We had the first one last year, in Brazil. Japan also set an all-time record for typhoons last year: ten. The previous record was seven.
- This summer, more than 200 cities in the United States broke all-time heat records. Reno, Nevada, set a new record with ten consecutive days above 100 degrees. New Orleans -- and the surrounding waters of the Gulf -- also hit an all-time high.
- This summer, parts of India received record rainfall -- 37 inches fell in Mumbai in 24 hours, killing more than 1,000 people.
- The new extremes of wind and rain are part of a larger pattern that also includes the melting glaciers worldwide, increasing desertification, a global extinction crisis, the ravaging of ocean fisheries and a growing range for disease "vectors" like mosquitoes, ticks and many other carriers of viruses and bacteria harmful to people.
I guess my point is that with this administration, if you don't keep your eyes and ears and mind on point we are almost certainly headed for disaster in the form of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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