Getting caught in the rain almost felt good last night after the heat of the day. Although I had my umbrella, I could still feel the rain on my shoulders and arms because the wind was so strong. But as the rain tapered off, it still felt like a night in the tropics.
These last several days and the weeks before have made us wonder how we would do without air conditioning. AC set at 75 must work four times harder when the outside is 95 than when it is only 85. One in 7 families spend about 14% of their income on energy mostly in the deep South and the very far North.
There are the yahoos, of course, who deny the existence of climate change and its effect on people, mainly politicians who attack science and want to abolish the agencies like NOAA that tell us what is really happening. That’s the agency that warns us of impending hurricanes. There’s no going back to a time that never existed.
Prayer for the Day
The quiet of the early morning is punctuated by birds,
Fluttering about as they look to another day;
Deer and their fawns silently walk through our gardens,
Searching for the plants they love to eat.
Hold us, O God, in your heart, as we go through this day,
Full of wonder at the promise of your creation.
In the name of the One who touched the lilies,
Even Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.
Thoughts for the Day
A state of half-ignorance and half-indifference is a much more pervasive climate sickness than true denial or true fatalism
David Wallace Wells, from The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Adults keep saying: "We owe it to the young people to give them hope." But I don't want your hope. I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic…I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is.
Greta Thunberg, from No One is Too Small to Make a Difference
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, so that a flood of waters may cover you?
Can you send forth lightnings so they may go and say to you ’Here we are’?
Who has put wisdom in the inward parts, or given understanding to the mind?
Who has the wisdom to number the clouds? Or tilt the waterskins of the heavens,
When the dust runs into a mass and the clods cling together?
The Lord to Job in 38: 34-38