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Pirates of Alaska

“Flying back from Coachella, other than the amazing music I heard and the fun I had dancing with my husband, and the open wound on my heel from wearing new shoes without socks like a dummy, I reminisce about my experiences unrelated to the event itself.

California just came out of an incredible drought. Currently the flowers are all blooming beautifully. The hotel pool was surrounded by flowers of all kinds and colors, tall palm trees, and hummingbirds furiously lapping of nectar. Over by where the lime green towels are waiting for the dippers of the day, there was a sign that remains as a reminder of the perilous situation that has abated, “California is in a drought. Please only use one towel per day.” Another placard in our room requests we attempt to use towels more than once in order to conserve on laundry loads for conservation of water. It could be that they are simply trying to cut costs but the drought was an extended one. When I was visiting California at my last Burning Man it had just started. It took a year to get some relief. 

In the other part of the country, an entire glacier has melted into the ocean taking along with it a river. The water patterns have changed course and all water diverted to the other river which is now well above its norms. Any business or family of earthlings, human and non human. no longer live by a river but instead by a dry riverbed. This phenomenon is called “water piracy”. What will we do when this inevitability continues? You can’t just fill up the river with water from a tap. You can’t water flowers from a watering can all up and down California’s mountain regions. You can’t relocate devastated families who didn’t know that this was even possible.

But it is happening. Whether you believe in climate change or not, does it make sense to just keep buying fossil fuels if we have alternate energy sources available? Solar power is one of these options. Elon Musk is rolling out solar roof panels. He is also single handedly taking on Australia’s energy problem, even promising that if he does not have the system fixed within 100 days, he will not require Southern Australia to pay for the infrastructure he is putting in.

What does this tell you? That one person CAN make big changes happen. Starting with you. What can you do? It is time to start building little changes in your life to help transition things toward reducing your carbon footprint. I’m in a plane; I get it that this is probably not the best thing available in terms of minimizing the footprint, but soon Elon Musk’s hyper loop will be available and this might be the answer to these giant fuel guzzling birds.

You don’t have to put up a huge wind turbine in your backyard, which the entire Coachella valley is covered in, but you can support a company by buying interests in its development. You can be a part of helping pass legislation to make access to alternative energy sources not only easy to get, make governments offer incentives and tax credits for those who use them. 

Use solar powered lighting in your backyard. You can even make your tea using the sun. They have stationary bicycles that power gyms and homes even. The possibilities are endless. 

If you deny climate change, please take a look at earth’s climate history and see that our sun is currently 30% stronger that it used to be, due to the fact that 450bn years ago when life began, it was still a young star. That and the burning of fossil fuels which does in fact add carbon dioxide to the air which traps heat in our atmosphere is causing habitats to be destroyed and devoid of livable conditions for many living things. One day, that could be your grandchildren, stifled by polluted air, wondering if they will be able to die of natural causes as opposed to a natural disaster. 

April Mission Nine- To be a part of this movement towards sensible living and not contributing to more dinosaur bones going up in smoke, check out this new slick book, “Climate of Hope” and also here is a comprehensive link on ways to minimize your impact here. 

http://www.preventclimatechange.co.uk/prevent-climate-change.html