The Bigger Picture

“Palu, in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province, was ravaged on Sept. 28 by a 7.5-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that lashed the coastal city with waves up to 20 ft. tall. The twin disasters claimed nearly 2,000lives, according to the U.N., with thousands more injured and missing.Survivors will feel the consequences for years: some 74,000 people lost their homes, and will live in refugee camp-like settlements for the foreseeable future.”

Climate change is making the U.S. Southwest, drier, hotter and dustier, and there are predictions that more disasters are coming. Ferocious storms used be very rare, and it would be a small storm here and there, but now these huge storms are becoming more frequent it is destroying homes and families. “In March 2017, “wildfires raged across four stated, fanned by wind sand fueled by a drought-starved prairie,” reported by New York Times, “killed at least six people and burned more than2,300 square miles.”

 “Earth is on track to face devastating consequences of climate change – extreme drought, food shortages and deadly flooding – unless there’s an “unprecedented” effort made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by2030, a new United Nations report warns.”  This is very sad, and I think that people are so focused on unnecessary things that are not opening their eyes to see what is happening right in in front of their faces.

CNN news headlined that President Trump gets two scoops of ice cream, while everyone else gets one; that is far from important, and people want to know why this world is coming to this terrifying end. Thousands are dying from heat alone, and they have dust storms towered 8,000 feet high and buried entire homes. “climate change presents a risk to people and infrastructure around the globe.” We need to look at the entire picture, because a ton of little things add up to big things.