Seventy years ago, we would be entering what we jokingly called the monsoon season. There would have been wet weather with thunder and lightning. It was these rains that put us in the category called tropical. This no longer exists.

Now we are more semi-arid than tropical. We are hot and humid most of the year, with few downpours. But we have a president who wants us to ignore climate change, calling it a hoax. People my age know this is no hoax, but a terrible reality.

Donald Trump wants us to pretend with him that the Earth’s climate patterns are unchanged. This point of view is very alluring because we don’t have to do anything. But it is our demise to do nothing. We all need to look to the future with eyes fully open, and shout down the people crying hoax so our planet can heal.

Urs

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