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Maggie JK's avatar

Just this morning the local news here in New Hampshire had a segment where they noted that climate change has affected our tourist economy. I was delighted to see it because people need to hear it. (https://youtu.be/Wu9ws8O_4DQ)

The apple harvest was horrible this year. I don’t know how maple syrup is doing. My favorite tree behind my apartment that usually turns bright orange, this year it just got brown and dropped leaves. Looking at the picture I took of it last October comparing it to this October was just depressing. I’ve been in this apartment for 4 years & this is the first year I didn’t see the tree didn’t turn orange.

(Edited to add I clicked on the link to make sure it works and I see YouTube added “context” that was not there when I watched it this morning. Ugh.)

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Terrance Ó Domhnaill's avatar

It's a shame but you are right. Nothing will change until the rich elite decide to make the changes. The rest of us need to hang on for a rough ride into the future.

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Maggie JK's avatar

Agreed, and I don’t see them making any changes because why would they? This works just fine for them. They are not suffering any kind of negative consequences that would motivate change that would be even slightly inconvenient for them.

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Terrance Ó Domhnaill's avatar

Then maybe they should be inconvenienced. Maybe we the voters should band togther and find a way to get their attention.

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