Duppers
Duppers's JournalPlease, please cross-post this in General Discussion.
This OP needs max attention. These threats need to be recognized as not being in some distant future but here, now. And it will become exponentially worse.
😞🌳Gone in a Generation: How climate change is disrupting American lives - WaPo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/gone-in-a-generation/
🌳 📣🌳 Will These Massive Geoengineering Projects Fix the Earth—or Break It?
Best idea from the article (my hubs and another NASA scientist, a DUer in fact, also had THIS very idea!!):
For example, a 2018 paper from the Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management describes launching what the authors call the HSS, or Huge Space Shield. The plan is to put a thin, wide sheet of carbon fiber into a Lagrange point, which is a relatively stable point in the complex system of gravitational pulls between the Earth, moon, and sun. The sheet would only block a small portion of solar radiation, but it could be enough to drop global temperatures below the 1.5 degrees Celsius limit set by the International Panel on Climate Change.
We voters need to champion these ideas. Our very lives will depend on our actions.
Thank you, Matilda! 🙏
💘 We had a wonderful vet who did this!
Kindest, best vet ever!
He kept his own dog at his clinic for emergency blood transfusions and to visit his patients who were nervous under his care. ❤
He also sent us a sympathy card after having to put our old BC girl down for us. I've kept that card. 
He retired after 40+ yrs. We miss him.
K&R this post!
One small thing tho: Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace are two different orgs. I've given to both and support all their actions.
- an Environment Warrior
Offer "traditional medicine shops free Viagra."
Great idea! Save many species... For awhile anyway.
Billionaire, my ass. nt
And THIS: remember Charlottesville riots?
Gov. Northam and the mayor ordered the damn statue(s) down. Then these wackos from all over the country, not Virginia, came in and mayhem and murder resulted.
How quickly folks forget.
Been sending my 31yo son climate warming info
For a over decade now as a hint. He's gotten it and is totally convinced that having children now is tantamount to murder/sentencing them to horrible suffering and death.
The info has been out there a long time. We as a species are coming to the end of our own rope. Our own self-made destruction.
It is a nightmare and all the prayers and denial will not save us.
Not happily and not just us.
I think most species will be wiped out, never to return.
May take 500K yrs for the planet to become green with vegetation again.
Look at "our" voting record
And the fact that you don't see pickups everywhere with racist symbols in New England, on the west coast, etc. So, generalizations can be made. I don't take offense about it because I hate these yahoo racists as much as anyone here.
Of course there are pockets of very liberal, intelligent people in the South. And we southern libs tend to be even more fervent politically than the rest of the country. There are many of us here on DU since we require such havens because of our closeted status here in R-land.
Yes, I also don't like people assuming that we're a homogeneous, inbred, ignorant racist block. But I think most DUers know we're not. Besides, I also trash southern racists all the time myself.
(And, btw, this closeted atheist hates those 60' crosses stuck on hills everywhere too.)
- an E. Tennessean born Virginian coming back home to our beloved Smokey Mtns.
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