ROTHENBURGER – We’re all doomed and that’s the sad, absolute truth
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IT SEEMS AN APPROPRIATE TIME to remind ourselves that we’re all doomed.
July has been the hottest month in the history of the world. The past three weeks have been the hottest since we started keeping records. July 4 was the hottest day ever.
Global warming has come and gone; we are now, according to United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres, into global boiling. Climate change is winning.
“Humanity is in the hot seat,” Guterres said at a news conference Thursday. “For vast parts of North America, Asia, Africa and Europe, it is a cruel summer. For the entire planet, it is a disaster. And for scientists, it is unequivocal — humans are to blame.
“All this is entirely consistent with predictions and repeated warnings. The only surprise is the speed of the change. Climate change is here, it is terrifying and it is just the beginning. The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.”
As we swelter under the heat dome, choke on the foul air of the forest fires and watch our communities flooded or torn apart by storms the likes of which we’ve never seen before, we desperately look around for solutions.
Guterres believes we can still save the planet. I’m not nearly as confident. Maybe we could, temporarily, but will we put up with the inconvenience?
Even if we wanted to, too many things are out of our control in the long run.
Mel Rothenburger is a regular contributor to CFJC Today, publishes the ArmchairMayor.ca opinion website, and is a recipient of the Jack Webster Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. He has served as mayor of Kamloops, school board chair and TNRD director, and is a retired daily newspaper editor. He can be reached at mrothenburger@armchairmayor.ca.
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Yes, there are those of us who remember clearly Burma Shave signs.That was during our youth in our world as it then existed. It was totally different than that of my grandfathers, and equally so my grandmothers. My world of youth as I knew it has completely disappeared. I was one of the few guys in Vancouver to drive a model T Ford as regular transportation. It,s down in the barn right now. The future world on our overpopulated planet will be as Mel predicts. My biggest regret is I won.t be around to witness it.
Bill Hodgkiss mentioned Paul Hilliers talk so I just watched his speech on UFO’s. They of course are a reality,having seen two. A friend who flew jet fighters in the RCAF has seen them as has his wife at their home on Pender Island.
Right on Mel and onward ho the wagons.
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There are too many of you moping around in your echo chambers not able to see what you are looking at.
Yesterday, Saturday, I was with a group at a slow pitch, pot luck. After a great day, in the evening we were listening to and chatting with Dr. Charles Hoffe from Lytton.
We are in a very turbulent but possibly exciting time, because the questions that require a common sense approach to discussion are ignored because of an unrealistic protocol. For the record, see what Paul Hellier said about ET’s before repeating an anonymous prediction.
A study of why, may show a new way to do something that improves the desired results for more of us.
[Allows Discussion] = [Creating Improvement] = [FREEDOM]
Remember the old “Burma Shave” signs on the US highways in the 50’s.
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I completely agree with both you and the scientists and their doomsday predictions. Extinction is the normal course of the history of all life forms.
99% of all species in the past have been extinguished. Evolutionary extinction is the only reason for the disappearance of us Homo sapiens which you’ve missed in your article. We’re very close to the end of days for us. Anybody who doesn’t believe this is suffering from a lack of brain and/or background.
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Take a deep breath. Then go out there and do whatever you can, be it in a big way or a small way, to save mankind and the planet. Then you might feel better.
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