{"id":92981,"date":"2019-09-20T20:12:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T00:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=92981"},"modified":"2019-09-20T20:12:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T00:12:34","slug":"the-kids-are-all-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=92981","title":{"rendered":"the kids are all right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/user\/botanizeme\/media\/sept2019\/Climate-change-0.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/sept2019\/Climate-change-0.jpg\" alt=\" photo Climate-change-0.jpg\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Climate Strike NYC 9\/20\/19, photo found <a href=\"https:\/\/news.uudis.eu\/global-climate-strike-live-day-of-worldwide-demonstrations-begin-in-what-could-be-largest-climate-protest-in-history-219565\">here<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The kids know what&#8217;s at risk.  Only the essentials &#8212; water, soil, the atmosphere, sea levels and acidification, desertification, mass extinctions, food supply chains.   Perhaps widening income inequality is making kids immune to the economic scaremongering arguments of their elders (what have they got to lose?) and more attentive to the facts:  &#8220;The accumulation of carbon dioxide, methane and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/20\/opinion\/al-gore-climate-change.html#commentsContainer\">greenhouse gases<\/a>&#8230;is now trapping as much extra energy daily as 500,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs would release every 24 hours.&#8221;  Now  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/daily-comment\/money-is-the-oxygen-on-which-the-fire-of-global-warming-burns\">415 ppm <\/a>worth.  Professional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merchantsofdoubt.org\/\">merchants of doubt<\/a> are still hard at work derailing timely action while profiting off the status quo.  Have you heard these hoary gems?   That climate change activism is  a Trojan horse filled with communists\/socialists\/globalists bent on world domination, or it&#8217;s already too late, or it&#8217;s about &#8220;greedy&#8221; scientists fighting for grant money, or the evidence is just not conclusive yet or ______________________________________________________.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/user\/botanizeme\/media\/airplantmanjune2019\/i-tjh3CF9-X3.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/airplantmanjune2019\/i-tjh3CF9-X3.jpg\" alt=\" photo i-tjh3CF9-X3.jpg\"\/><\/a><figcaption>&#8220;Invisible Barn&#8221; at Sagehen Creek Field Station, by Tech design firm <br>projection by Ethan Turpin and Jonathan Smith<br>photo by MB Maher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>No more excuses, no more alternate sets of facts.   The information is out there and has been for decades, and the science is being borne out in real time, including every successive summer producing the hottest months on record. There&#8217;s no time left to convince the willfully ignorant or elect more environmental terrorists.   It&#8217;s time to take to the streets and the voting booths and stand with the kids.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(have a great weekend!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kids know what&#8217;s at risk. Only the essentials &#8212; water, soil, the atmosphere, sea levels and acidification, desertification, mass extinctions, food supply chains. 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