Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Organizing For Action is sponsoring the showing of the documentary, Chasing Ice. I've seen it three times now. Each time I focus on different details, the beauty of the visual images, the single mindedness of James Balog's mission, and of course the precariousness of our current ecological situation. I'm not going to lie, the film leaves you with a sense of futility and sadness, but I believe in the survival of humankind. I just don't want to be the part of my generation who did nothing, the equivalent of Nero fiddling while Rome burned, except on a global scale. I've recognized that the things that I've been doing, reducing my carbon footprint by riding a motorcycle for my commute, eating from my garden during the summer, teaching the teeny tinys an appreciation of nature and the importance of it, beekeeping, knitting. I've even joked on facebook about knitting being a post apocalyptic skill. Yeah, that's not really that much of a joke.
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Good for you. Climate change is real whether some folks choose do deny it or not.
I'll have to watch that documentary. I know it is sad what is happening to the polar bears and other wildlife that depend on the sea ice.
I think the biggest thing hubby and I did to help reduce our carbon footprint besides recycle like crazy was to go vegan. I can hope that by not eating meat we are reducing greenhouse gasses by that many animals a year. Works in theory.
Tobairitz,
I think every conscious effort we make to improve the situation is a good effort and worthwhile. Somehow we have to break through the feelings of hopelessness and for some, apathy or we're going to be in dire straits very soon. If not our generation, then our children and grandchildren. The loss of icebergs is releasing ever increasing amounts of methane that had been trapped under the ice, which in turn exponentially exacerbates the man made problem of increased levels of carbon dioxide. I think earth sheltered homes are going to become much more popular, and beach front property much less so over the next few decades. Moving underground and away from the coasts will be the only way to survive the severity of storms, flooding, and heat.
Good for you Julie. I think it's a wonderful cause. I hope you give us ideas of small things we can do to help. Some things that we might not think of doing.
Cindy Bee
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