{"id":290,"date":"2023-03-05T20:14:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T20:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solarutopia.org\/onehuman\/?p=290"},"modified":"2023-03-05T20:14:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T20:14:48","slug":"do-we-remember-the-day-both-poles-went-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solarutopia.org\/onehuman\/archives\/290","title":{"rendered":"Do we remember the day \u201cBOTH POLES WENT CRAZY\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yes, think back a year ago. Do you remember the day? It may be the most significant event to occur in our lifetimes. Yet, most of us don\u2019t remember it. Is this a sign that we are genetically \u201cprogrammed\u201d to ignore a \u201cfire\u201d of this magnitude or that we are corporately programmed to focus on much more mundane and irrelevant (yet profitable) things?

The weekend of March 19-20, 2022, both Earth\u2019s poles saw temperature variability on a scale unprecedented. Both the North Pole and the South Pole exceed their normal temperatures by over 50 degrees Fahrenheit! Yes, that is right! Read about it here: LINK<\/a>. It got very little coverage by the media and it took several days for the information to be communicated, if it was shared at all.

The year anniversary of this extraordinary event occurs later this month. Do you think anyone will remember? How can we expect to make sufficient headway when something of this significance happens on the only planet we have to live on and we collectively barely blink?

What can you\/we do? The list of the things we can all do is very long, just do a \u201cgoogle search\u201d on \u201cways to reduce climate change\u2019s risks\u201d? They are all one \u201cclick\u201d away but the vast majority of us won\u2019t do this search and don\u2019t think anything we can do matters. Let me suggest this: Go to your City Council meeting and ask them to demonstrate what they are doing to reduce the severe consequences that may come with unmitigated climate change. If they look at you with askance, give them some suggestions.\u00a0 I am the mayor in a U.S. city and such requests are not made (people are much more concerned with \u201cgoose poop\u201d and \u201clong grass\u201d). And, believe it or not, some politicians actually will do what their constituents will them to do! So, why not \u201cshow up\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something else you might do? Well, remind people of this ominous event of March 2022. And, rather than leave them in fear, remind them that there are real options to avert the worse impacts of climate change. What are they? Most are rooted in expanding renewable energy resources (solar and wind) and displacing all fossil and nuclear fuels. Check out The Solution Project for a great resource on how this revolution might occur: thesolutionsproject.org<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t heard of this, or you doubt it can\/will happen, ask yourself why? Perhaps a change in attitude is the first step for you, me and others.
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Yes, think back a year ago. Do you remember the day? It may be the most significant event to occur in our lifetimes. Yet, most of us don\u2019t remember it. Is this a sign that we are genetically \u201cprogrammed\u201d to ignore a \u201cfire\u201d of this magnitude or that we are corporately programmed to focus on … Continue reading “Do we remember the day \u201cBOTH POLES WENT CRAZY\u201d?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenges","category-climate","category-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7BrNb-4G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarutopia.org\/onehuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarutopia.org\/onehuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarutopia.org\/onehuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarutopia.org\/onehuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarutopia.org\/onehuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solarutopia.org\/onehuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/solarutopia.org\/onehuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarutopia.org\/onehuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarutopia.org\/onehuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarutopia.org\/onehuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}