Caught between two tsunamis – nuclear & climate
Caught between two tsunamis – nuclear & climate
“Where there is no vision, people perish.” (Proverbs 29:18)
*What is the most significant secular date in history? Novelist Arthur Koestler believes August 6, 1945 : “After Hiroshima we live with the possible extinction of our species.”
*Military General Lee Butler (1938-) “We must destroy them before they destroy us!”
*Admiral Noel Gayler (1914 – 2011) with 45 years in US Navy said: “Only defense against nuclear weapons is to stop building them.”
*100 years ago, Svante Arrhenius warned of fossil fuels heating planet; repeated warning in 1905.
*Carbon levels highest in 800,000 years. (Business Insider) Scientists fear Paleo Ecocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) will return making life on earth more difficult.
Carbon Combustion Complex and MIC – the most powerful enterprises in history
*Fires in Australia destroyed area the size of Indiana or four times size of London
*400 glaciers have melted with Mt. Everest affected, melting glaciers will bring more water into the atmosphere and raise ocean levels. Venice is a measure of the future.
*There is no stronger teacher in history than our sacred ocean (haiku by Vic Hummert)
*Plane crash in Lafayette strains local burn units
*Henry Hub was one of top ten KGB targets in cold war
*July 2017 – 123 countries vote to abolish nuclear weapons – 123 burn units in the USA
2020 – 7,861 Mayors For Peace in 163 countries invite all to join (Call Lafayette, LA mayor)
*Greta Thunberg is a descendant of Svante Thunberg. Twice on Time cover.
*Are we paying attention to Greta and Mayors For Peace on climate, weapons?
