I am writing from the economy plus
section of a 787-8 Dreamliner (free upgrade because I begged for a
window seat), someplace just east of Japan, and this is the second
post I have written about it. Something about being on it has
inspired me to revisit it, and there are things to be inspired by.
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I have been traveling for months,
looking for good stories, and most of the stories I have found are
more loaded with Fear than Hope. I am seeing a lot of Environmental
Alamo's in the Third World, but coming back to the first world, you
see that something is happening.. that people are getting the
picture, and that action is being taken so our worst fears are not
realized environmentally, in part because unlike in the tropics, the
volatility of the weather is serving as a huge wake up call to anyone
who isn't trying to ignore things. In the tropics, as with a lot of
places, the weather is either creating more intense storms, or
longer periods of dry clear weather from what I am reading and
seeing, and this is something that people can shrug off aside from
the storms, but the temperates are not so lucky. I skipped a winter
in the northeast United States that was like a winter I did
experience in Florida a few years back, the winter of 2009-'10 where every few days a new
storm whipped by, the jet stream acted erratic, and record cold
temperatures were set. In Alaska and the west, things were warm and
dry, and although not as numbing to the soul, everyone could tell
something was wrong.
