climate change.

This is Part Eleven. Part One is here.

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I know, I know. So many people still don’t think it exists. That’s okay, let’s go with the idea that science is wrong and that the record setting heat every year (we literally are setting a new record every year) the fires, the hurricanes, the Prosecco growers in Italy who told me that the grapes always froze by the end of October when they were kids and now they never do, the fact that crabs have disappeared from Westport and that the world’s largest glaciers are disappearing and… I’m exhausted… there’s so much to ignore but let’s ignore it.

Or let’s pretend this is all natural. It’s just what happens, because the Earth cycles. 

So let’s back out of any climate change agreements (see Paris) and let’s throw all the regulations that don’t let us put poisons on our crops, in our rivers, and in our air out the window because, hey, that stuff costs us money and hurts our economy which runs on capitalism which means making the most profit as possible and it does cost some money to not use poisons in stuff. Let’s pretend Roundup is not basically spreading cancer on all of our crops and let’s not ban it like Russ and Mexico have and are doing. Yes, Russia and Mexico.

Let’s come back to the way I started this thing to end it. 

What if this is one of the momentous decisions - not only in electing the next Hitler - but in literally saving the planet. I know I sound like Al Gore who made that silly film 14 years ago and, shit, we are living everything that film predicted. But, still, let’s pretend Al Gore is stupid and dramatized everything about climate change. 

I mean what if it’s true though? If we ignore it, we all die in a heap of toxins and poisons and dead fish stocks and no coral to snorkel around on vacation (also happening) and plastics in our blood (also happening).  That sucks. If it’s not true and we act like it is, we end up with a nicer planet, cleaner air, cleaner parks, less cancer, and yes, probably a little negative affect (maybe) on the economy that is currently “amazing” and very “unequal” and causing us to ignore this very paragraph because it makes us look short term and ignore long term. 

You see the dangerous cycle of this, right?