Lots of media reaction has us staring at the obvious (and usual) suspects when we speak of concerns about greenhouse gases, climate change, and the like here on the Big Blue Marble. And I get that sentiment but it's too easy to harumph about what Donald Trump is or isn't (mostly isn't) doing to safeguard the environment, because we were going to Hades in a handbasket before he became President so it's on all of us and not just him or any other leader anywhere in the world.
And it's not just that I'm a polar bear lover or a giraffe devotee, though there's a charm to both, and all, animals (and I'm as big a fan of Blue Planet as the next person) but relentless pragmatist that I am, we have hard science telling us that we will run out of breathable air and drinkable water sooner rather than later.
Since we're a life form that needs both to survive, worrying which one will run out first is pretty much a moot point. For the self-proclaimed smartest species and crown of creation, we don't seem to fully grasp that we do not have a Plan(et) B; and that each of us, for all of us, from treehuggers to climate skeptics and everyone in between must do what we can when we can or will won't be able to do or be anything anymore.
It's not politics, it's the survival of our species and hopefully, we're smart enough to understand that.
-bill kenny
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