The Climate Crisis Makes Landfall.

Necessity meets opportunity.

Maybe we should name the Climate Crisis. That works well with storms and makes for great headlines. People pay attention. They develop a relationship with Sandy or Gloria.

The 2020 hurricane season surpassed researchers’ most dramatic forecasts. In August, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted that the season would have up to 25 named storms and 11 hurricanes. With a month still to go, 2020 has seen four more named storms and one more hurricane than the forecasters expected.

Storms are piling in. We’re running out of names.

Extreme heat doubled in 2020. November shattered temperature records. In the northeast of the United States, that means break out the shorts. In the Sahara that means death.

A giant iceberg, bigger than 27 Manhattans, broke loose from the polar ice cap and floats around the ocean like a malevolent sloth shark, a harbinger of doom

Joe Biden proposes a 2-trillion dollar program to address the climate crisis and people say it can’t done. Survival can’t be done? People say a carbon tax is unreasonable. Breathing is unreasonable? American taxpayers subsidize the oil industry. Are we paying to ignore reality?

We need to pay attention to the climate crisis. That’s a necessity. We need to build a green economy. That’s an opportunity. From here on out every Biden decision must be about climate. It’s a necessity and an opportunity, and when those two powerful motivating forces unite, the possibilies becomes reality.