I am 72 years old. I have always thought of climate change as a disaster that I would

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29. and.. what planet are you living on?

This is now the thread of the 72 year-olds.

On my planet, Chicago had years of frostbite-cold winter waves that would last for days, sometimes weeks, days when temperatures of 10F were a warming spell. When I moved to northwest Oregon over 30 years ago, a half-dozen 90F days per summer were a little above average.

Humans are absolutely wreaking the planet. And they're (eh... WE!) doing so because money is the reward. It's a centuries-old story that "modern" humans exploit resources with the intent of "conquering" nature and accumulating wealth, when our only path to preserving the planet is to act as if we are at one with nature and the Earth.

We know that the record of life on Earth shows that 99% of all organisms that ever lived are EXTINCT. We are just another species that can either adapt to nature's force or die off and take most of the more advanced life forms with us. There is no magic.

Tommy, when you are 82, and you watch those hurricanes wash over the Florida peninsula, leaving half of Florida under salt water, tell your grandkids what it was like in the 1960s, when the Amazon rain forests weren't being burned down so that corporations could raise methane-producing cattle for fast-food hamburgers and the oceans weren't being trolled clean of fish for cat food.