While I'm Doing Research...
Good evening, folks! While I'm still researching methane, and how to cool down the planet, what shall we discuss meanwhile? I'm doing my best to post here at least once a week.
So far, there's no discernable wildfire smoke choking us here in Seattle; but southern coastal Alaska has dozens of wildfires yet to be contained. Maybe we're evading the smoke because we've had more rain this summer than we usually get. Let's keep our fingers crossed, or something. Here is a current Public Wildfire webpage to keep things updated.
My favorite Irish folk musician, Liam Clancy, who passed away ten years ago, was also an activist for Irish reforestation and alternative energy. He built the first fully solar-powered home in Ireland (in Ring, County Waterford, a bilingual/Irish-speaking community on Ireland's southwest coast); and planted over 7,000 trees, of all native species, across his stretch of property on County Waterford's Helvick Head. He and his family were forward-thinking, both on environmental issues, and on righting the injustice of centuries-long Irish deforestation by the British government. I hope to write more on this later.
The 2020 U.S. election campaigns haven't even started yet, and I'm getting tired of them already. However, thankfully, Democratic candidates are beginning to sit up and pay attention to climate change, and other environmental issues. Activists and climate strikers had to put a good deal of pressure on some of these candidates and the Democratic National Committee (who were dragging their feet on putting the issue up for debate); but the majority of candidates appear to be on board for an upcoming debate in which climate issues are front and center. As for the GOP camp--well, the Orange Guy still thinks fossil fuels and plastic straws are A-okay. Surprise, surprise.
Finally, I'm trying to keep up with the dizzying speed of the progress being made by Climate Strikers the world over, as well as technological ideas on mitigating global warming. This is one reason why I'm campaigning to get Wifi installed, somehow, in my apartment building sometime this century. In any case, keep striking, talking and demanding action! Despair Not, Nor Surrender!
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