And I Helped

It has been so dang hot this summer. If I don't get my outside work done earlier than 9am, then it's just too hot outside to work. I live in the south and I understand it is supposed to get pretty hot in the summer but not this early and for this long.

Scientists say that the severe weather we've been having is due to the higher temperatures and they also say it's going to continue to get worse before it gets any better.

Some scientist say that humans are to blame for this climate change. I don't fully agree with that idea. I think that the world goes through cycles of heating and cooling, although I also don't rule out that the human race is now influencing that cycle with all of the airborne chemicals we have been putting into the atmosphere for the past 100+ years. And frankly, I've put in my fair share of those pollutants.

I've been trying to get better at minimizing my 'carbon footprint' on this earth. I try to drive as little as possible, use less electricity, less plastics and more reusable/sustainable products. After all, this is the only planet we have (I watched that NatGeo show on the universe and there is nothing close to the earth for us to run to). We have gotten to a point in our human evolution that we can easily destroy ourselves, by accident or action.

I am going to continue to do what I can to help our environment survive. I just wish more people and governments believed something is happening instead of turning a blind eye. It shouldn't have to take a enormous number of lives for those people to take action (usually it takes a threat to someones bank account before action is taken).

Occasionally I wonder if there is something to that December 21, 2012 end of calendar.