Continuing as we are is equally devastating to not only humanity but the ecosystems of the entire planet. What’s worse? We take a huge hit and leave something for when humanity recovers or drive everything into catastrophe and there’s nothing left, especially not us? It’s not whether we can’t run air conditioners anymore, it’s that the entire tropics will be uninhabitable, the seas belching jellyfish into the streets of flooded cities, and every human left will have fought countless marauders to keep one tiny bit of inhabitable space. It’s game over already for a lot of things. Why not try to stop some of the worst of it before we lack the technical capacity to engineer a stop? Invest everything, and I mean everything to the effort. Take the hit. Figure a lot of us won’t make it. Apologize to everything.

We burn more oil every day. Exxon has known for decades that it's ruining the climate. Congrats, Exxon, you're literally stepping on the gas to bring us all down.

Last time I crossed up North we presented our passports to the nice Canadian at the tiny booth. He didn't as much glance up at us and sent us through. We were on a Sunday drive. A few hours later we crossed back into NH. A HUGE facility with a dozen people. They peppered us with questions. "Why did you go to Canada for just a few hours." Like that. Even ran the mirror under the car, went through the trunk, looked at us like we were up to something. About five miles down the road was a Border Patrol SUV hiding behind a corner in case we had made a break for it. wth. The difference between the two attitudes was embarrassing.

Great points. I should have added that my scenario is super rare. Still, it happens and when it does it gets a lot of headlines. Aberrations like this are very hard for most people to get their heads around and because of that there's not a lot of empathy for the perpetrator. edit: changed a word

The impulse to kill your children is ancient. When a mother or father sees their family unit breaking up or becomes socially ostracized they will see their fate as sealed. A mother would not be able to provide for children by herself. The children's future will be bleak if not ending after starvation or predation. Leaving them to the leopards is worse than killing them yourself. Humans have been dealing with this prospect a lot longer than we have had the desire or means to help those kids. Most people choosing to kill their children are also in abusive relationships. I don't know the particulars of this woman's case. I would think they have considered all of this. Still, it's a fascinating, rare throwback to a fundamental behavior.

Everyone will have a different tale. Still, better than Catholic Worst Surgeon Anywhere Hospital or the regionals. My wife has been there 13 years and loves it and her department.

DHMC is the best workplace in NH. The have a great program for learning and becoming qualified for other healthcare positions, too. They are currently in a hiring freeze but your work is vital enough they might still be taking applicants? Talk to them sometime. The Upper Valley is nice.

Likely drowned, floated up when his gasses got sufficient and got noticed by sharks.

We're burning more oil all the time. Plastic is everywhere, just everywhere. Our clothing, blankets, a lot of our vehicle parts, all of that. It's a runaway train. Awareness won't do a damn thing. Never has. The 70's had the Ecology movement and they designated the first, Earth Day. They helped stop rivers from burning but big oil just kept getting bigger. Hope all you want, convenience will win out.

Jesus would hate that.

I wonder what the toll will be on the livestock.

That's mostly because your Rep will always vote with their party unless their vote wouldn't swing anything and they want to make a show of something. Your best Rep knows the score.

Ask your PCP. They quietly keep a list of psychologists who are affordable and accommodating. My PCP says mental health is now simply, "part of her practice" as options are so limited. She says she has both active and retired counselors she sends people to see. Yours might have the same.

Anyone can learn.

You need to fashion a PVC-scrap Riding Roost like my friend, Honey BBQ uses when we go to the Post Office.

Those coal ash ponds, lakes, and rivers sure are doing wonders.

I'd like a heat pump and solar in my New England home now that oil just kills the planet faster and there isn't enough forest for everyone to heat with wood. Our methane-based electrical generation isn't going so well, either. $35-45k is a lot of money but with the right incentives it would make more sense.

Energy is pretty important. That's what I've determined. Maybe leaving something so important to the motivations of shareholders and corporations who need to please them isn't the best way we could manage it.

Yak Trax. Don't slip on the ice. Ruins the whole season when you bust your wrist.

Brondingnagian Blueberries?!! Three is all you need!

It's the Anthropocene Extinction and it spreads the whole world wide. It caught snowcrabs, krill and penguins and they died, died, died.