It is now after Labor Day, the days are getting shorter and our weather is supposed to be getting cooler. Even though according to the calendar Fall doesn’t start for a couple of weeks most of us consider Labor Day as the end of summer. When I get up in the morning the two things I normally check, first, is how my blog is doing and the headlines on my home page which is MSN. There are all kinds of stories about the raid on Trump’s castle and what various politicians and former politicians think. One thing that there was not one article on my Home Page that really jumped at me that I would think should be the major story. That story is the weather or in this case the heat wave, that is gripping much of the country. Is Climate change just an old story? Is our attention span as a society so short that we need a new story to grab our attention? Stories on climate change are not as sexy as FBI agents going through Melania’s closet but believe it or not the Heat Wave Story should be much bigger.

There are some opponents that you just can’t beat. Mother Nature is such an opponent. If we are going to survive we are going to have to work with Mother Nature and quit thinking that we can defeat her because in the end we will probably lose. Much of the West is in a deadly heat wave. We can air-condition our homes but we still have to grow and raise food and that we can only do with the cooperation of Mother Nature. There are water shortages all over the West and let’s face it water is the key to life. We can go weeks without food but only days without water. Why do we ignore the things that in the long run will kill us? Is it because we figure that we will blow the planet up before Mother Nature kills us? Yes, there are all kinds of things that can kill off humanity like Nuclear War but we can actually be more successful at stopping at Nuclear War than we can be at stopping Mother Nature. If fact, we can only work with Mother Nature, we can never defeat her.

I was reading a quote from a Republican Congressman say how stupid Governor Newsom’s idea for zero emissions is. He said that California didn’t have the infrastructure to charge that many electric vehicles. I can hear that old horse trader a hundred years ago saying that Henry Ford’s idea for a car in every garage was stupid because we didn’t have enough gas stations. We didn’t have enough roads to drive them all on. Looks at us now. We built those roads where we can go just about anywhere. We built those gas stations and so will the infrastructure for all those electric cars be built too. We used to call that progress. That is what we need again is ground breaking progress. We need to stop thinking why we can’t do something and start thinking about how we can do something. We have to do more or things will just get hotter and drier.

I really don’t believe that there are very many people left that actually don’t believe in Climate Change. What I believe is that there are people paid to say that there is no Climate Change. I believe that there are people that are paid to say that there is no proof that Climate Change is manmade. Our political system in many ways is a corrupt system with our Politician’s being dependant on campaign donations to run their elections. Do you think that Exxon is going to give a ton of money to a political candidate and not want something in return? These campaign donations are not donations at all. They are investments, buying political favor, or as I like to put it they are bribes. Scientist have known for over 50 years about climate change being real but still three years ago we had a President in the White House that treated Climate Change like fake news. If you are going to put profit in front of people’s lives just come out and say it. Just stop lying about it.

What we put in the air affects our health and the health of our planet. That is very simple concept to grasp. Every breath you take, you not only breathe in our life sustaining oxygen but also all the pollutants that we put in the air. Today rainwater is not a drinkable commodity because of all the pollutants that each drop of rain has absorbed on its way falling down. These changes to our environment affect the poor first. I don’t mean just our poor but the poor around the world which includes our poor.  Are we responsible for what is happening to the poor in other countries? Well if what we have put in the air and what we have put in the water is harming them then yes we are. Can we fix it? Only if we start working now and I hope it isn’t too late.

We have to put greed on the back burner and start doing things that can make a positive effect on the environment. Hemp can be used to replace many product from paper to many petroleum products and it replenishes itself in a few month not years. We have to think about things that are sustainable and not disposable. We have to embrace the fact that a Green Economy is the economy of the future we want to have a future on this planet. We can only accomplish that if we work together with other tech savvy nations to make it happens. This is a world problem and it can only be solved by everyone working together. When it comes to saving the Planet there is no America First. It has to be all of us first.