How to be Earth's Champion
The earth is getting colder and it’s a dire emergency. Wait – maybe the earth is getting warmer and it’s a dire emergency. In the past 50 years, climate change has been front and center, with strident voices trumpeting many different points of view. How can we know what’s right or what changes truly make sense?
In the late 1800’s, scientists were postulating that human activity was affecting the Earth’s atmosphere. In the 1970’s, the loudest voices were proclaiming that the Earth was rapidly cooling, and we were surely headed for another ice age. By the 1980’s, a different understanding became the dominant one – global warming was melting the ice caps and coastal areas worldwide were bound to be covered by the oceans. Then in the 1990’s, the prevailing theory was of climate change – human-activity-created weather aberrations would be the end of us if we didn’t do something soon.
What “something,” though? The truth is, the Earth is a system, not a static item. Even before human activity the Earth’s weather went through wild temperature swings. Do we affect the system? Undoubtedly. Do we know for sure what we need to do, or even that we need to do anything?
No.
Science is fluid. Theories are just that, theories. Theories are often presented in news coverage and social media posts as if they were facts, not theories. They’re still just theories until the rigorous scientific process proves them.
On this Earth Day, celebrate the wonderful system we’re part of. Celebrate that our planet is in the sweet spot for light, warmth, and energy from our sun. Celebrate that you don’t have to be in charge of managing the rotations or revolutions, that you don’t have to keep an eye on gravity, that when you exhale, there’s always air to inhale. Celebrate this beautiful planet we inhabit, and try to love and celebrate it every day, not just today.
When you love something, you care for it, and you take care of it. That means you make choices based on what works for the object of your affection as well as what works for you.
It doesn’t take strident voices and sweeping changes to change the world or even to save the world. It takes each person doing what they feel is right and doing it from a place of care and love.
We can all do that, right?
Wags,
Sandy Weaver, the voice of Wagaliciousness!
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