* Dear Peter:

Thank you for your recent kind words in regard to me on another thread. I hope that you are reading this post, I think that you will because the title of this thread is likely to attract your attention again.

Reading the quote you added to your second post on this thread is very meaningful to me this very morning as I sit here, containing the terror I feel about global warming, following the most recent never-before-record high heat wave where I live, in the PNW :

“We have all suffered, and will suffer, our own falls. The fall from youthful ideals, the waning of physical strength, the failure of a cherished hope, the loss of our near and dear, the fall into injury or sickness, and late or soon, the fall to our certain ends. We have no choice but to fall, and little say as to the time or the means”-

–  Fearing global warming puts the fall from youthful ideals, the failure of cherished hope, and even my own individual death in a new-to-me perspective, as .. nothing much in comparison. I am worried that suffering from heat will increase, that more and more people will die because of the heat.. leading, in a few decades or so, to the most acute heat-related suffering for the still-living,  and to the great majority of people on earth being dead, only a few scattered settlements of people remaining, in the least hot areas, while most of the planet is a lifeless desert. I feel hopeless on the matter because people deny, politics is radicalized.. no end in sight to the slow death of life on earth, and I can’t reverse climate change by .. anything I personally do.

Back to the quote: “Perhaps, however, we do have some say in the manner of our falling… In fact, I would have it that in the way of our falling we have the opportunity to express our essential humanity”- this speaks to me a lot.

Can you tell me, Peter, what you think about global warming/ climate change.. about what to me is very clear, which I described right above.. any suggestions for me?

anita