Fresh water supporting wildlife, a cloudless blue sky bringing light for growth, mature trees supporting wildlife and producing oxygen as they consume carbon dioxide. These are the things we are destroying with our greed, complacency, and inaction.
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I’m posting a weekly photograph of our wonderful world here, but I’m also Tweeting one each day, with the hashtag #ourworldiswonderful, join me there if you wish. Sometimes, my posts on here include words. I hope you’ll continue to comment, like, and share these to spread the joy of natural beauty to as many people as possible. It just might persuade some to join the cause and fight the coming climate emergency and species extinction.
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Beautiful, Stuart. I hope that river is still full because I’d like to float down it in an inner tube! This has been a terrible summer and had certainly demonstrated what a limited water supply our planet has and we’re not taking care of it.
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It’s actually a small lake, Noelle, fed by natural springs, and drains into the nearby Mediterranean. It was full when we visited the Greek island of Skiathos in May, whether it is still, I don’t know! But it probably is. It’s a wildlife sanctuary, where birds and fish are protected, but I suspect you’d probably get away with a quick float on an inner tube!
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Thanks, Stuart!
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Beautiful picture, Stuart. And yes, we are an incredibly destructive species.
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Thank you, Lynette. I’d love to post these pictures of natural beauty without the accompanying warnings, but so many people remain unaware of the damage we’re doing to our world.
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I’ve been in the Northwest Territories for the past week, and the temperature has been around 28-30C. That is very warm for the subarctic in the latter half of August (more normal for June when the midnight sun significantly raises the temperature). It should be more like 15C. This is terrible as the northern ecosystem is actually quite delicate. Those who still think that climate change doesn’t exist probably believe that some sainted religious figure is going to save them.
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Yes, Lynette. Most of Europe is suffering from drought and high temperatures. There are wildfires all over the globe, destroying a major source of carbon capture from the mature trees, one small nation has now applied for rehoming as their island is no longer habitable due to sea level rise, but, as you say, many still seem to believe their mythical god is going to save them. But religion never worried about evidence, of course: faith is all! As for the non-religious who won’t see the dangers of climate change, they are either so ignorant of the reality, bent on continued pointless consumption, have a vested interest in retaining the status quo, or too lazy to find out what is actually happening, to do anything to curb the very real dangers we face. We’ll just have to keep plugging away in the hope we can help people see the realities of the climate emergency. But I fear we may have already reached a tipping point in a number of vital areas.
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I’ve heard about Europe’s terrible drought and high heat. My home in Penticton had an unusually cool, rainy spring and early summer (it’s classified as semi-arid desert), so the opposite is happening in odd places, as well.
Agreed – greed is a huge driver behind this situation. This week our government is about to sign a big agreement with Germany on hydrogen production, but at the same time we’re building another pipeline to the west coast. One hand giveth; the other taketh away …
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Yes, the world as a whole is experiencing many different types of weather extremes – droughts, flooding, high winds, storms, heatwaves – all associated with climate change, and all predicted by those in the know at least as long ago as the 1980s – even the oil industry’s own research at that time showed these extremes as a probable outcome of using their products, but they buried it!
As for hydrogen, the ‘dream’ energy source. At present, the methods of extraction actually cause more CO2 production than use of the gas would save, so it’s a negative solution – i.e. will make the situation worse while persuading people it’s a solution! Here’s a link to a site with a straightforward explanation, if you’re curious, Lynette: https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/pros-and-cons-of-hydrogen-energy.htm
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Thank you very much for the link, Stuart. There is a lot of controversy here about this situation as (I’m sure you know) there are two very different modes of production. One is as you say and the other is supposed to green.
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