Helicopters drop water and fire retardant on the Harris fire, near the Mexican border, to stop a wildfire from advancing. Andrea Booher/FEMA
I cannot say this any better than Al Gore did in 2006:
“It takes time to connect the dots, I know that, but I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.”
We need to wake up from this state of denial and get our damn heads out of the sand, or we and our children will not recognise the world as we’ve known it.
Brendan Piater is the founder of Arctic Online, a successful website design studio, Internet technologies expert, passionate conservationist, open source and free culture enthusiast, entrepreneur, expert spear-fisherman, ex-pineapple farmer and a rather good mackerel fisherman.
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