The Onion has a great article titled "Planet Earth Doesn't Know How To Make It Any Clearer It Wants Everyone To Leave". All humor aside, the recent spate of tornadoes, floods, and draughts has a lot of people talking who, I suspect, don't usually concern themselves much with climate.
Hopefully we can use the tragedies in Joplin, Missouri, Massachusetts, and the Mississippi River Valley as a starting point for a national dialogue on how to get to a point where we are once again living within the bounds set by the natural world that we live in. For too long we have pushed the planet beyond its limits and the day is fast approaching (if we haven't reached that point already) when it will no longer be able to absorb the impacts of our lifestyles. And I am afraid that the recent environmental catastrophes we have witnessed will grow more frequent.
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