Pottering around

Spring is in the air.

I've been pottering around in my garden, cleaning things up a little bit. I'm no specialist but I think nature is at least one month ahead of schedule.

Something definitely is happening to our climate. Whether we are to blame or not, I don't know. Probably yes. I'm not going to start ruminating about forcing people into a certain lifestyle, to discover a couple of decades later that the lifestyle is completely wrong, morally unjust (see the North-South gap), totally unsustainable and life-threatening in the short or in the longer term.

Indeed, greed once more. A dollar is more palpable than pure fresh air.

Catastrophies - like Yellowstone blowing up - excepted, I stand a good chance of living out my life span without experiencing really major changes in our natural environment. Once in a lifetime is enough : I already lived through one in the fifties and the sixties - it was called progress and growth - totally new and even alien ideas before the second world war, now turned into lesser gods - and now we start paying the price.

But I most certainly wouldn't like being a child or a young adult right now. Up to the early nineties our main nightmare was about nuclear war (still a distinct possiblity, don't you let them tell you otherwise), now it is cataclysmic changes in our natural environment.

Not very nice thoughts for a nice sunny day in late winter - early spring ...

Is it too late ? I sincerely hope not, but I wouldn't like to bet on it.