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Guys, I wish I had something good to report, but I don’t. It feels awful having to pass along so much bad news day after day, week after week…

But it is what it is. We’ve pushed Earth’s climate system too far out of balance, and now Gaia is pushing back against us.

🔥 Canada is still on fire. I’ve been posting about this for three weeks, and it’s not getting better, it’s getting WORSE. [Graph 1 below] Over a thousand fires are burning, with two-thirds out of control. So far this year in Canada, an area the size of Greece has burned. Imagine the entire nation of Greece, with every square inch either charred or in flames. That’s what happened to Canadian forests.

♨️ Ocean temperatures are still WAY above where they should be, with no sign of returning to normal. [Graph 2 below] You’ve probably seen the reports of hot tub temperatures in the water around Florida. That’s not a joke, it’s real, and it’s killing coral along with so many other life forms that depend upon the reef system.

💰 Will you feel better if I let you know that the stock market is up? That US unemployment is down, thanks to millions of new low-paying part-time jobs without benefits? That the Biden administration is hard at work building oil wells in Alaska and giant shipping ports along the Gulf of Mexico to export millions of tons of natural gas? And that the UK has just approved 100 new North Sea oil and gas drilling licenses?

No? That doesn’t help? Sorry, but everything else is going haywire now. The only thing we can reliably count on is that Business As Usual will continue into the foreseeable future. 😡

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