You’re flying in a plane looking down on the fields or mountains or deserts below, before you go above the clouds...and realize how very small we are compared to the planet. Even if you have a bunch of polluted cars or factories down there, how much can it affect the climate or weather? Do we cause the temp
to be raised a millionth of a degree? Are we to blame?
The sea levels are rising so why did Obama buy a mansion on Martha’s Vineyard? Oh wait, maybe he solved the whole global warming thing. I live two blocks from the ocean. Nothing looks different. We don’t have six feet of water in the downtowns of Boston or NYC. We aren’t getting a huge increase in hurricanes. These megastorms are about as
frequent now as they were in colonial times.
How much do we affect the weather?
We’re going to run out of oil.
Millions will starve.
Killer bees are on the way.
Florida will get blizzards—no wait—
It’s the other way around.
“We could be seeing the end of snow.”
—New York Times Feb 2014
A year later the northeast got one snowstorm after another.
“Some numbers: Boston has already accumulated 96.3 inches of snow this winter — including a staggering 59.1 inches in February. The city’s now within 13 inches of the all-time winter record.”
—Vox, Feb 2015
Global warming..
Climate change..it’s all our fault..
Must change to electric cars.
What really struck me however were the massive forests that dominate the country east of the Mississipi and especially in the "urbanized" Northeast. For example, heading out of JFK in New York, once you pass the Jersey shore, you see almost nothing but dense forest all the way to the plains of the Midwest.
That really gives you perspective on just how rural our country still it today. Urban people tend to have a distorted way of seeing the world because they spend most of their time surrounded by concrete and buildings.