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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
Scientists have long projected that ice caps in the arctic regions, including Greenland, would be melting, and that this would make the waters of the oceans and seas around the world rise. This, in turn, threatens coastal regions in many areas around the world.
None of this is a new story, of course. This is what they have been projecting for a long time. This is what we understand to be the impact of climate change.
However, even scientists who have known about these projections for a long time are a bit taken aback at the speed with which the ice caps are melting, particularly in Greenland.
This, of course, should be extremely alarming. After all, the effects of climate change were supposed to be felt over a considerable amount of time.
Yet, it feels increasingly like we are already seeing the impact of climate change, that there are more severe storms, and that these storms, are coming at an incredibly fast clip. Just look at what is happening right now in southern Africa, where they were just trying to recover from the last epic storm one month ago. Now, they are seeing still one more storm that is supposed to have an unbelievable impact, and this one was even bigger than the last one!
Here is a link to an article that reveals how the ice is melting faster even than scientists had predicted in Greenland, and what the ramifications might be that we now have to expect in the not too distant future:
Here is a link to an article that reveals how the ice is melting faster even than scientists had predicted in Greenland, and what the ramifications might be that we now have to expect in the not too distant future:
Greenland ice sheet is now shrinking so fast that it's 'a bit scary' Changes to the island's ice sheet could transform the entire planet, scientists say. by Rafi Letzter, Live Science April 24, 2019:
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