While suffering with the recent heat and worrying about the drought and the likelihood of local wildfires, you may not have noticed the tremendous amount of work that SLO city has been doing to help us adapt to the changing climate. Since January, the city has been holding a series of webinars on adaptation and resilience. Go to the city’s website to view their Resilient SLO initiative. And consider attending the upcoming virtual workshop on Thursday, July 22, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.: lgc.org/resilient-slo. Come prepared to share your ideas and concerns.
This article appears in Jul 15-22, 2021.
No matter what the US and Europe do, the climate is going to keep changing due to the industrialization of the Third World, and we need to do what we can to adapt to a changing climate. The people of the Third World are going to continue to improve their standard of living no matter what we do, and are unlikely to be dissuaded by the fashionable thinking of the elite in already industrialized societies . Pretending that what we do will make a difference is like issuing vouchers for future travels on the Titanic as it sinks – likely to make a few people feel a bit better, but of no substantive value.