The Change is Real

Climate change is happening.  This is undeniable.  What is easy to deny, for some, is that we human beings have had nothing to do with it.  To deny that we humans are not in some way responsible for contributing to the rapid increases that are taking place in all of our varying environments, is irresponsible.  Yet there are those that continue to believe we are not culpable.  Now there is a distinguishing characteristic between someone who continues to question the science and another who questions the reality, they are called skeptics and contrarians.  Skeptics have participated in the science and continue to.  Contrarians choose not look at the science at all, yet still find themselves in a position where they are able to continually contribute to the onslaught of misinformation that negligent corporations feed.  They do this, one, because they are protecting interests that they somehow feel they are invested in or are actually invested in or, two, out of narcissism.  Corporations have a bottom line to maintain, and rarely is what is best for the people or the environment taken into consideration, (see big oil and coal and then follow the money).   The narcissists are contrarian because they do not want to believe that their actions contribute to the problem of negative climate change.  It is hard for people to change for the better and by better I mean doing what is in their best interest.  We often do things that are counter to our best interest, mostly out of comfort for the position that we have found ourselves to be in.  What we must do now, if we are to make a change in our lifetime, or the lifetimes of those who will come before us, is to simply acknowledge that something must be done, for the better, so that this planet can sustain us as a species.  Make no mistake, the Earth is very resilient, it has been here for far longer than we have, but it would be nice if we could be here a bit longer too.