10,000
The AP is reporting that up to 10,000 people may be dead in Myanmar as a result of a cyclone there.
I feel like stopping there. One second of silence for every person would be 2 1/2 hours of silence.
When 3000 people died on 9/11, the US mobilized it's armed forces for a massive response. This is 3 times that number. We are a nation that talks about the value of the life of every human being... so much so that we no longer fund birth control information for people who want it.
Why did so many people die? Rising oceans and more ferocious storms. In other words, another global warming storm.
It's not "coming", it's here.
And we need to change our lives. We can't wait until global warming means more than fewer days to ski and more days to tan. For 10,000 unique souls global warming came home on Saturday.
1 comment:
Hi Anne
I couldn't agree more, we need to act now if we are to slow the climate change that is already occurring, we are already decades too late to mitigate much of what's to come.
Blessings:)
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