Do We Dare to Welcome 2023?
By James Donahue
It is tradition for Americans to welcome in every new year on our calendar. People celebrate on the street, they make “New Year’s” resolutions and generally celebrate what they hope will be change for the better.
But if there is a change this looming year, it probably will not be anything we will welcome. Our future prospects appear extremely dark.
Russia’s peculiar war against neighboring Ukraine has heated as more and more nations are getting involved. Conflicts appear possible between China and Taiwan, and North Korea vs South Korea. Natives are in violent street rebellion against leadership in various nations including the United States.
The great storms, extreme heat, droughts, floods, melting ice caps and severe winter gales and that ravaged our world in 2022 will not be going away this year. World leaders have come to an understanding about this horror, have attempted to collectively meet and agree to try to do something about it, without much success. The cost of changing the way we live . . . our dependence upon coal, natural gas and oil to fuel our homes, offices, cars, trucks, ships and aircraft, appeared to be too high a price to pay to stop the disaster our news outlets have dubbed “climate change.”
The fast-melting ice caps are heating our oceans, causing changes in the natural currents and consequently triggering the events now affecting all life on the planet. Earth's oceans are not merely home to most of Earth's life, but they also function like heaters and coolers for the entire planet. This means that they are crucial to survival of all life, not just the flora and fauna that happen to live underwater.
Both sea and land creatures are moving north into what remains to be the cooler climates. We are experiencing dangerous and biting insects and animals as they move away from the extreme heat of the equator. The onset of new and deadly diseases like COVID-19 and it’s many variations are ravaging the human population everywhere. Humans are migrating to escape the terrible heat, and this is causing border wars as the human tides move north.
Many of the creatures of the Earth are going extinct. The birds that once welcomed each new day have disappeared. Farmers can’t feed their livestock, so the animals are being slaughtered for meat.
Farmers everywhere are unable to cope with the extreme weather changes and this is already causing food shortages. The loss of popular foods from the warmer areas like coffee beans, bananas, peanuts is already affecting our food supply and things are destined to get as the heat builds. Natives in some African areas are literally starving for lack of enough food and water.
Some researchers are now saying this problem is now out of control. Efforts by the Biden Administration to shift to natural green energy sources is meeting extreme obstacle sources in the halls of Congress. What should be a collective effort to save ourselves remains in a stand-still. Our political “leaders” appear to be more interested in being re-elected in 2024 than much else. Also there exists the ongoing Trump card that is tossing chaos into the nation’s political climate.
Indeed, the celebration of this new year is not something many of us will participate in. The looming dark days ahead will be affecting us all.
By James Donahue
It is tradition for Americans to welcome in every new year on our calendar. People celebrate on the street, they make “New Year’s” resolutions and generally celebrate what they hope will be change for the better.
But if there is a change this looming year, it probably will not be anything we will welcome. Our future prospects appear extremely dark.
Russia’s peculiar war against neighboring Ukraine has heated as more and more nations are getting involved. Conflicts appear possible between China and Taiwan, and North Korea vs South Korea. Natives are in violent street rebellion against leadership in various nations including the United States.
The great storms, extreme heat, droughts, floods, melting ice caps and severe winter gales and that ravaged our world in 2022 will not be going away this year. World leaders have come to an understanding about this horror, have attempted to collectively meet and agree to try to do something about it, without much success. The cost of changing the way we live . . . our dependence upon coal, natural gas and oil to fuel our homes, offices, cars, trucks, ships and aircraft, appeared to be too high a price to pay to stop the disaster our news outlets have dubbed “climate change.”
The fast-melting ice caps are heating our oceans, causing changes in the natural currents and consequently triggering the events now affecting all life on the planet. Earth's oceans are not merely home to most of Earth's life, but they also function like heaters and coolers for the entire planet. This means that they are crucial to survival of all life, not just the flora and fauna that happen to live underwater.
Both sea and land creatures are moving north into what remains to be the cooler climates. We are experiencing dangerous and biting insects and animals as they move away from the extreme heat of the equator. The onset of new and deadly diseases like COVID-19 and it’s many variations are ravaging the human population everywhere. Humans are migrating to escape the terrible heat, and this is causing border wars as the human tides move north.
Many of the creatures of the Earth are going extinct. The birds that once welcomed each new day have disappeared. Farmers can’t feed their livestock, so the animals are being slaughtered for meat.
Farmers everywhere are unable to cope with the extreme weather changes and this is already causing food shortages. The loss of popular foods from the warmer areas like coffee beans, bananas, peanuts is already affecting our food supply and things are destined to get as the heat builds. Natives in some African areas are literally starving for lack of enough food and water.
Some researchers are now saying this problem is now out of control. Efforts by the Biden Administration to shift to natural green energy sources is meeting extreme obstacle sources in the halls of Congress. What should be a collective effort to save ourselves remains in a stand-still. Our political “leaders” appear to be more interested in being re-elected in 2024 than much else. Also there exists the ongoing Trump card that is tossing chaos into the nation’s political climate.
Indeed, the celebration of this new year is not something many of us will participate in. The looming dark days ahead will be affecting us all.