Reply #37: Good post. [View All]

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Though, I do think it is time, right now, to be discussing this. Climate refugees in large numbers are already occurring. It will be our land at one point, so why not start at least discussing it now. I know people aren't ready to have this discussion, maybe those ready to, ought to start bringing it up more and more and get them ready.

I have a parent in Atlanta, not worried at all about water. (Just another thing to keep under the rug along w/ everything else she isn't ready to discuss, quite frankly) So, I've had a lifetime of training on discussing crucial issues that are "uncomfortable" to people who want to bury their heads in the sand. They always seem so damn surprised when shit hits the fan, too. It goes together. I've taken the hard knocks being the one to stir shit up, pardon my french, but the shit is there and it stinks and I want to get rid of it. I've endured this my whole life, and I'll endure talking about reality to those who'd rather live outside it, than in it.

Time is now, and maybe those of us who understand that people aren't ready to have these discussions, better get themselves ready to discuss this, with those who aren't ready.

Their last 'jolly' days of blissful ignorance will be the signature on all our death certificates. This time, they will just have to be "uncomfortable" and be told, no matter what age they are, they will always have things to learn. No matter what situation they are in, it will be changing. No matter how scary something is, you can't hide from it or it'll definitely take you out unless you stand up and face it. No matter what you think you know, you can always know MORE.

That is just one hell of an "Inconvenient Truth", and isn't THAT ironic!

*rant off, noticed a nerve got touched by my upbringing. Not directing anything negative at you.