Moves and (climate) changes [View all]

[GliderGuider]

I live in Ottawa, exactly halfway between the equator and the North Pole. Here we are strongly affected by the polar jet stream - a jet stream that is going ever more berserk as the polar-equatorial thermal gradient flattens out due to polar amplification.

I expect to live until 2040 or so. If I am so blessed I will experience the average temperature at this latitude climbing by over another degree. Possibly it will rise even more, since the projections I ran this morning obviously can't include the effects of accelerating methane feedback that is just beginning.

My heart breaks for the world, and especially for the new-born children.

I will not be moving away from here, in some desperate attempt to beat the odds and find a place that might better nurture my personal survival. There are people everywhere. All of us will need help, compassion and understanding as events unfold. Those who live around me, right here, will need as much help as those anywhere else. This is my choice.

As our awareness grows, those of us who are in the vanguard may find ourselves cast in the unanticipated role of Bodhisattvas to a world plunging deeper into physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual suffering. May my awareness be in the service of all who are in need.