Looking at the smoke obscuring the sun is not exactly improving my outlook. Especially considering that people in the future will consider these days “the good days.” And people will care about this issue when it’s far too late.

And in case it may seem I’m being dramatic:

1. It should worry you that the Pacific Northwest, a typically rainy region, is experiencing intense wildfires decimating the afflicted areas. This isn’t normal. People forced to evacuate their homes due to climate issues will be a common phenomenon.

2. 90% of the world’s honeybees have died. Bees are pretty important for you know, fruit, vegetables, almond pollination. You know why vanilla is so expensive? A typical small vial of vanilla extract is about $20. Real stuff. It’s because it’s hand pollinated. Vanilla’s natural pollinator has gone extinct.

3. Warming temperatures + displaced habitats (deforestation, unsustainable farming practices)—> sick animals—> novel viruses. Like a certain COVID-19. And more will come.

2. Rising sea levels, warming ocean temperatures. Death of coral= death of keystone species. So so many ocean species depend on coral.

Important top of the chain ocean species like sharks are going extinct.

Our ocean is SO important for absorbing heat. So so important. And it’s taken quite a bit of abuse.

3. Worse and worse storms— violent hurricanes. Drought. Fresh water will be harder to access.

In a certain number of years, imagine, the population has never been so large. Yet the earth is becoming increasingly uninhabitable, and more and more people are forced to flee their homes. Your oranges are $6 a fruit because it’s hand pollinated. You are forced to flee your coastline cities because they are underwater. Water is difficult to obtain. Food is difficult to grow because the land is so ruined and destroyed by monocrops and unsustainable farming practices. Wildfires scorch the land.