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For the first time in my life, I experienced a massive heat wave, torrential rainfall and flooding, a forest fire and hail, all within a single month. I am NOT

• saagarjha 5y ago
  Buckle up for the rest of your life…
• dataflow 5y ago
  This is likely just the introductory act. We'll be begging to go back to this era of floods and fires once the resulting & hard-hitting droughts + famines + wars + mass migrations + mass extinctions + etc. take their tolls (and some of them have already started to).
• rich_sasha 5y ago
  As a comment I read said, the fear isn’t that this is the new normal, the fear is that it isn’t, and worse is to come.
• trainsplanes 5y ago
  I'm afraid that in a decade, humans will just accept this as our reality and forget that it wasn't always like this. In 20 years, we'll have a generation of adults who'll think our stories of years of generally calm weather sound like pure fantasy.
  • hef19898 5y ago
    We already have this every time it snows in winter in the pre-alps. People totally forgot that like 10-20 years ago "extreme snow" was kind of the norm from December to early March.
• jonp888 5y ago
  It's going to be bad. I don't expect to have a conventional retirement like my parents did. By that point, society will not longer be able to support a large cohort of people who just consume and don't contribute. I don't understand how anyone can still justify having children, knowing how they will suffer as a result of what we have done to the planet.
  • ashton314 5y ago
    I believe it is incumbent upon those of us in privileged positions of education and wealth to have children that we teach and raise to be contributors in solving the world’s problems. Raising one child well goes a lot further to helping people out then not having a child at all.
    • mlang23 5y ago
      Sure, only "priviledged" people should have children. Elitist thinking ahoy! Nope man, these days, with the amount of people on this planet, nobody really needs more of them, no matter what nice elitist excuse the individual finds.
      • hutzlibu 5y ago
        "Sure, only "priviledged" people should have children." No one said that. It was simply said, that those who have a mind and use them - totally should have children - because otherwise only those have children who do not use their mind so much. And this would not be helping.
        • mlang23 5y ago
          Statistics is telling the reverse story. The more educated you are, the less likely it is that you will have children. Wonder why? :-)
          • hutzlibu 5y ago
            Well 2 reasons I think: one is money. The more educated - the more likely to go for career and not for children. The 2. overly living in the head.
        • bryanrasmussen 5y ago
          Idiocracy was very entertaining but, I am happy to report, not actually scientifically accurate.
• gremlinsinc 5y ago
  In utah 80% of our water is spent on alfalfa for cattle. The governor is an Alfalfa farmer. The Great Salt Lake is about to be renamed the Minor Salt Lake as it's bone dry. Seems to me Utah's biggest industry isn't Alfalfa or Cattle though, it's tourism. Especially skiing. Much of the slopes get their snow from lake effect snow. That's not likely to be as much this year, and might not be a thing at all if the lake dries up completely. On top of that the lake will create a deadly arsenic dust bowl that will damage the health of all creatures locally including humans for years to come. Lucky for me, I'm in southern Utah where we only have to worry about rising # of forest fires. /s I feel like if we had more water...if we didn't use it all, perhaps the lake effect snow would fill the snow cap, and then the droughts would be less. It'd be a shame if cropdusters accidently put salt in alfalfa fields, a real shame.