The old button from the Environmental Club days which I just happened to find on Earth Day! It is a little beat up (particularly the ends of the ribbon), but no worse for the wear, I think. And it is one of the few items that I have left from those days, so it carries a lot of great memories for me! Nothing Changes Until You Do!
Here is a picture of a very similar logo, with the same message, that was on the t-shirt that I purchased from the BCC Environmental Club and, if memory serves me correctly, may even have helped to make. There were a few projects like that which club members, myself included, were regularly involved with. It has been so long, however, that I no longer recall specifically if I actually helped to make these or not, although I do believe so, since I remember seeing the process of the t-shirts being dyed. In any case, I loved this t-shirt, and have kept it ever since, even if I do not regularly wear it. Since it was part of my experience with the BCC Environmental Club days, as well as more generally having an environmental theme, it seemed appropriate to share it here.
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."
~Mahatma Gandhi
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
~John F. Kennedy
Earlier today, I posted something about Trump disparaging the "global warming theory" and then getting owned by someone who is actually scientifically literate, unlike himself. I always marvel at how detractors of the validity of climate change get so wrapped up with the unfortunately misleading name that it was originally known by: global warming. So many detractors do not bother digging any deeper than the name itself, and feel that global warming means that the planet should apparently just get warmer and warmer all of the time, and that a cold day, especially one with ice and snow, automatically serves as proof that the whole "global warming theory" is some kind of hoax or scam.
Unfortunately, it is all too real, and their petty little squabbles and hang-ups with the name are making matters worse and getting in the way of progress. Yes, climate change is real, and it will have, and possibly already has had, some serious detrimental impacts.
In fact, I just learned about one of them very recently.
Now, this came as a real shock to me!
Personally, I had never thought that climate change might actually impact the ratio of the sex of children brought into this world. According to recent findings by scientists, however, it very well might!
Clearly, this is not natural. Indeed, detractors (and they are particularly numerous and stubborn here in the United States, funded by corporate special interests as they are) have long suggested that the Earth's climate is always changing, always fluctuating. But it has not changed as radically or as quickly as it has in modern human history, and this clearly is parallel to increases and human technological advances.
It is scary to see how much this world seems to be changing, and mostly for the worse. But it is even scarier to see just how seemingly indifferent and unconcerned so many people seem to be about this particular issue. That is particularly true, unfortunately, here in the United States, the nation that has contributed far and away more than any other nation to putting harmful gases into the atmosphere that contribute to human-made climate change. And since many Americans (although according to recent polls, far from a majority of them) liken climate change to higher taxes and measures that are harmful to business, it is clear that Americans are going to be the ones dragging their feet the most on this particular issue. That is how we get a complete scientific illiterate in the White House, and plenty of them populating Congress, which makes meaningful and constructive discussion, let alone action, on this subject virtually impossible.
Still, those of us who still believe that facts matter need to remain immune from this great distraction, from the ridiculous circus sideshow that the Trump administration, and our current Congress, for that matter, have become. The dots connect, and we cannot forget that. Nor can we ignore all of these clear warnings of what human-made climate change is actually leading to. It is our responsibility, and we need to take this seriously, even if - or really perhaps especially if - a large segment of our population lacks and maturity or intelligence to do so themselves.
Still, those of us who still believe that facts matter need to remain immune from this great distraction, from the ridiculous circus sideshow that the Trump administration, and our current Congress, for that matter, have become. The dots connect, and we cannot forget that. Nor can we ignore all of these clear warnings of what human-made climate change is actually leading to. It is our responsibility, and we need to take this seriously, even if - or really perhaps especially if - a large segment of our population lacks and maturity or intelligence to do so themselves.
Below is the link to the article that I got this sad and scary news from:
Climate change will affect gender ratio among newborns, scientists say CNN Digital Expansion 2016 Susan Scutti By Susan Scutti, CNN Updated 9:28 AM ET, Thu January 24, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/23/health/climate-change-infant-sex-ratio-intl/index.html
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