Here is a post of our great friend Josh Diamond, back in the United States after an unforgettable time in Sadhana Forest.
Global Warming: The Sobering Truths for Humanity without Action
Greetings and Happy New Year to Sadhana Earth!
After a long break from the Sadhana blogosphere and a strictly physical (spiritual remnants remain amidst the bananas at Sadhana) move back the West Coast of the United States, I have been asked to return with my form of global heating enlightenment. Much love to Aviram and Yorit for allowing me to write for the Sadhana Forest web page
Rather than delve into a specific issue of interest in the global warming and global warming policy arena in my first post in some time, I want to provide readers a helpful look at what basic challenges humanity faces due to global heating’s effects. I am providing a link to a very thorough and straightforward summary from the Climate Progress blog of the multitude of ecological harms that could occur by the end of the 21st century if worldwide greenhouse gas pollution emissions continue at/around their current levels:
An introduction to global warming impacts: Hell and High Water « Climate Progress
Mother Earth will respond, and is (note: rapid melting of glaciers from the United States to the Andes of South America to the towering Himalayas of India and Nepal, years-long drought and immense dust storms in Australia, prolonged drought, followed by torrential monsoon rains in southern India, et al) currently, to the heat-trapping waste we put into her lungs.
And in case you in Sadhana cyberspace are sitting in the immense cold sweeping much of Europe and the United States, don’t worry:
In my next post, I hope to lay out simply what the Copenhagen Accord reached at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in December means and why, despite the claims of many, hope is not completely lost to reach broad international agreement on greenhouse gas reductions.
Love and Peace for now!!
-Josh
Tags: climate change
