Okay my next big idea is the bodega van. Instead of an ice cream truck for kids it's a convenience store for adults in the suburbs. It's 6:47pm and you're out of milk, tissues, and you forgot to buy broccoli for your dinner. Oh shit it's the bodega van music. Brb, gotta walk down the block instead of spend 20m in a car, parking lot, store, line, back. As long as the margins are less than doordash it's worth using.

Cmon please tell me I have one original thought in this wide world.

It is currently the beginning of Feb and our normal weather here is a few days of snow, usually a few inches, usually at least one large to shut everything down (like 10+"). Overcast. In the 20s and 30s (F).

I went skiing on Saturday and have never seen so much literally bare ground outside of the very early or very very late season.

I went to a protest today. Parked a distance away and walked. It was 68°. It feels like the end of April. We got almost no snow - only like a foot unseasonably early in the middle of November. The wildfire season this year is going to be rough, and the summer will be brutal.

You dont know the future

Nope. But I know humanity and I've picked up a history book.

Again, look around you. Look at world politics. We're moving in the opposite direction of addressing climate change. As long as money is our prime motivator, we will keep acting in direct opposition to the wellbeing of our planet. And, another spoiler alert, money is going to be our motivator for the foreseeable future. Probably forever. We will only address the issue when it seriously affects every man, woman, and child on this planet and by then it will be far too late.

Humanity was always going to destroy this planet on a long enough timeline. It was inevitable. I'm not a defeatist. I'm a realist.

No, but it's easy to predict given that the trends of the last several decades can show where we'd be in the next and the trend is: global temperatures are fluctuating more violently than the year before and occurrences of extreme weather are increasing. Additionally, nothing has been done during that time to reduce the impacts globally.

It's scary but, let's face it: we're a virus that's killing our host.

may be, but with the feedback loops fully contributing then, the 6°C goal will be delayed a few decades.

and by the way, the political was to stop it at 1.5°C by 2050. nobody ever assumed 6°C an acceptable outcome.