Ed Cockrell
Jul 2, 2023

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Some decades ago when Al Gore was forcefully talking about our unfolding climate disaster and Inconvenient Truth one of the mainstream broadcast companies produced a climate special for television. It showed burning forests, rising seas, drought, forced human migration, and all manner of very scary things. That show was not inaccurate in how it played out our climate future (and now present) other than the timeline it presented. The dystopian future was supposed to be 2100 and the show was saying we needed to take corrective action. But people did not want to accept the message. So, we returned to denial. And the timeline is now present time instead of next century.

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Ed Cockrell
Ed Cockrell

Written by Ed Cockrell

A North Carolinian by birth and life experience with some USMC thrown in. Realistic about life and death, but essentially a pragmatic optimist. Life will be.

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