What you should do: 1. Do a little reading on climate change. 2. Get in touch with those who represent you.

Climate change: Evidence, Impact and Choices

If climate change is so dangerous and eminent, why aren't people worried?

Why do we worry too much about some environmental risks and not enough about others?

Mental Shortcuts

Big decisions based on little information

Answer the following questions with yes or no:

1. Are pesticides a serious threat to public health?

2. Is genetically modified food a serious threat to public health?

3. Is bisphenol A (a chemical ingredient of plastics, also used to line food cans) a serious threat to public health?

Now, the most important question:

4. Did you have all the facts you needed to make a fully informed, analytical, reasoned decision about any of the first three questions?

Please don't be willfully blind to the dangers of climate change!!

Margaret Heffernan: The dangers of "willful blindness"

Climate change affects your family. Your mother needs your help.

Climate Change Indicators in the United States

The Earth's climate is changing. Temperatures are rising, snow and rainfall patterns are shifting, and more extreme climate events—like heavy rainstorms and record high temperatures—are already affecting society and ecosystems. 

Climate Change. Around the Earth, scenes like this are happening in someone's neighborhood.

 In Nashville Climate change: This was yesterday, who's neighborhood today?

In California Climate change: This was yesterday, who's neighborhood today?

In Madison Climate change: This was yesterday, who's neighborhood today?

Local = Global, Global = Local

Solar Electric Light Fund

A good article to show the severity of the problem but too pessimistic

Sustainability is destroying the Earth

He is not thinking local enough. Rain barrels, community power, neighborhood geothermal and solar, local trash to energy fuel-cell plants with multiple energy outputs and zero pollution, recycled cans replaced by local glass and pottery, cloth not paper, resource sharing, co-housing. I could go on and on. I am going to build one such community right here in Coventry. There will be a lot of pain involved but as a species we have suffered it before. There is no alternative.