An undeniable truth:

Seeing photos of the destruction from the Midwest tornado outbreak yesterday, noting how similar they are to so many photos of like destruction these days. I paused, this time, however, somewhat unable to comprehend the association between the photos and the news at hand.

As flatly stated by the talking heads, it is late in the season for tornados, especially any that far North, and packing that sort of destruction, even more rare. And this, little more than a week from the strongest storm ever to make landfall hitting the Philippines.

My reaction, upon processing? ‘We’re f*&ked!’ It seems, eventually, wherever you are, this new weather phenomenon is going to find you somehow. As many interviewed in connection with the Midwest tornados are stating, ‘you think it won’t ever happen where you are, until it does.’ One day, you are living in that complacent bubble and the next you are looking at years of work just to get back to anything resembling normal and likely living with more fear of a recurrence after completing all of that work.

Trouble for me, as someone who has not ignored the bad news as to what we are looking at environmentally, is I don’t believe we can avoid it. Much as I am disturbed by the lack of emotion displayed as these disturbing events roll out and on, I am unimpressed by the screeching sometimes heard beseeching us to pay attention to climate change. Why?

Take it from me, all it’s going to do is convince you that ‘we are f*^ked’, so I’m not sure how valuable that is – unless you believe it is better to live appropriately depressed about the awfulness of life as opposed to optimizing the bliss of remaining oblivious.

I’ve come full circle from wanting to raise awareness as to what we are facing environmentally to condoning the ‘head in the sand’ approach. When there is nothing you actually can do about something – why stare it down, head on? At least not until you have to, in the form of a tornado, a flood, a tsunami, or the like, hitting your neighborhood and/or home. Sad statement? Yes it is, but, in my view, an undeniable truth.

If you haven't seen this home video, it's worth a look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1WMEwd8Al0