Physics. I think a lot about Physics these days. For every action there is an opposite, equal reaction. I know, I know, we are talking science here and much of the nation doesn’t believe in science. That is a problem as I see it because for every action there is a reaction. The problem is that many times we can’t predict what that reaction will be. We dump all this garbage into the atmosphere, there has to be some kind of reaction. To say that there is no reaction is just denying the laws of nature. Scientists did not create these laws. They didn’t just one day get together and say we are going to write these laws and nature is going to abide by them. These laws of nature are not like a set of ordnances created by your city council. They are not like the laws like Congress writes and passes. These are not like our Constitution. These laws were created when the world was created. If you believe that God created the Heavens and the Earth than these laws were created by God. The laws of Physics are what you can consider are God’s laws.

We have been dumping all this crap into our atmosphere, there has to be some type of reaction. The trick is figuring out what that reaction will be. Is global warming real and is it caused by what we are pumping into the atmosphere? That is not one but two questions but both are being argued about by both sides of the environmental argument. By the data it does appear that global warming is real and whether you believe it is doing harm leads to more questions. I had a person in Wisconsin tell me that he thought that global warming was great because it would make his winters milder. He didn’t care about what it was doing to the rest of the country or the world. All he cared about was his little corner of the world and the hell with everyone else. I think that attitude is more prevalent than most think because of people are thinking how this will affect me instead of looking at the big picture. Do industries like Koch Industries care about the environment or do they just care about their profits? Koch Industries’ revenue annually is 115 billion dollars. That is a huge chunk of change. Much of those profits are being made from the burning of fossil fuels. The very thing that most Scientists are blaming for our accelerated Global Warming. So what is the reaction to the news that their products may be killing our place on the planet? They use some of their profits to discredit the Science. The very science that is trying to protect our place on the planet. The Saudi’s do the same thing. They even punish the world by cutting production making the price goes up to ensure their profits. What is the reaction to that? Why more drilling here and more pipelines here. Is that the reaction that the Koch Industries and the Saudi’s want? Us drilling more and making us more dependent on something that may be killing our place on the planet?  Remember Action, reaction.

 We in Southwest Florida have now lived through another Hurricane last year, Ian. It was one of the most powerful storms to make landfall in the United States and one of the more damaging one. Our seas have been warming which is resulting in more and more powerful storms. Yes, again action and reaction. The damage was so severe that much of Fort Myers Beach and Sanibel Island is on a 2 to 5 year recovery plan. Most of Fort Myers Beach will never look the same. Whether the rising temperatures of the oceans are manmade or not is not going to change the fact that the storms are going to get stronger and the damage that they inflict will just get greater. How we react and how our State and Federal Governments react will determine the lives of millions in the not so distance future. These storms are not going away no matter what we do but I fear what the reaction will be if our water keeps rising in depth and in temperature. Will these storms get even stronger? We have had severe drought conditions in various areas in the United States and Canada. The result are forest fires and have raged out of control, burning millions of acres of forest and spewing more toxic stuff into the atmosphere. These fires affect the air quality for areas hundreds of miles away for the fire zone. I fear that these too will only get worse as our climate changes. Severe drought is also affecting our fresh water supply. Places are just running out of water. What could be the reaction of places running out of water? Could it be the mass relocation of people to areas were the water is more plentiful? Action and reaction.

Even in politics physics is at play. You have an election that for the most part is a fair election but the loser doesn’t like the results. He tells his supporters that he has been robbed. He tells them to march on the Capitol to change the results of that election. They do march on the Capitol and they try and shut down a branch of our Government that was just doing their constitutional duty. The action was the lie. The reaction was the insurrection. Of course the result has been many people arrested and a divided nation. People have to stop and think about what the reaction there is going to be with every decision we make. The action of more guns on the street. The only reactions is going to be more shootings. The demonizing of people because of their race, color, creed or sexuality will only lead to discrimination, suppression, violence and yes death. We have already seen that in the past. That is why the dummying down of our educational system will only lead to us repeating the same mistakes.

For every action there is an opposite equal reaction. We have to stop ignoring the law of nature that were created when the Earth was created. As I stated earlier if you believe in a creator or a god then these are the first laws that he or she created.