I just found out one minute ago that it is Blog Action Day 09- a day of worldwide blogging on the issue of climate change.  Well, I have ten minutes before I have to pick up my daughter so, readysetgo!

Climate Change!  (Formerly known as Global Warming)  Scarier than terrorism, running in a dead heat with nuclear holocaust.  It’s not about people feeling slightly warmer in the summertime.  It’s about people dying on a massive scale- worldwide crop failure, rising sea levels, refugees, and wars over land, water and food. 

The polar ice caps melting could cause vast dead zones in the seas causing mass die-offs of our already scarce fish populations.  The caps melting could also change ocean currents which would change the worlds weather patterns which would render all of our knowledge of crops useless.  Have I paralyzed you with fear yet?

I hope just the opposite is the case.  We should be galvanized into action by these truths.  We need to stop living in the past and take charge of our future.  Lets imagine our cars growing a little lonely as we foot and bike it in our everyday lives.  Lets give the trains and buses a little attention too, they do good work.  Cars are not going anywhere, so lets also imagine a world of clean alternative fuels and electric vehicles powered by wind and solar. 

The environment is not just in some distant forest in Brazil, it is right here- right now, It is the air and fine particulates I breathe through my asthmatic lungs and it is the grass and pesticides my daughter walks through on my neighbor’s lawn. 

Climate Change is also right here, right now- lets talk about it to our families and friends, and what we can do about it,  and lets watch the world wake up from history.