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We Told You So

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While heatwaves are nothing new to American summers, the regularity and severity of such events is worsening due to the human-caused climate crisis. The release of heat-trapping gases due to the burning of fossil fuels has caused global temperatures to escalate above anything previously experienced during human civilization.

“We are experiencing exactly what the climate models in the 1990s said we should experience now,” said Andy Pershing, chief program officer at Climate Central, a climate change communications non-profit.

“That is, more frequent, more severe heatwaves, bigger temperature anomalies, more humidity, higher overnight temperatures. These are all part and parcel of the climate story.”

The Associated Press contributed reporting in The Guardian

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Contact Us | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

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It is easy to contact your government representatives. Let them know what you think about things. Click below to speak your mind:

https://www.congress.gov/contact-us

Like… things I am against…..

the Iran War (any war)
ICE
congress people investing in stocks, etc. while in office
prisons being run by private companies
tariffs
fossil fuel power
semi-automatic guns

Like… things I am for…..

Medicare for all
flat federal tax for all, with no exemptions allowed
no cap on Social Security contributions
solar power, nuclear power
gun controls
open borders

Like… I could go on and on….. the point of this post is to remind us all to contact your representatives at

congress.gov
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VOTE

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Be sure to vote if you want to be heard.

Meanwhile, California really does need to change our voting method to RANKED CHOICE (sometimes called Preferential Voting). Someone needs to do what needs to be done to get this on the ballot here.

Learn more about Ranked Choice here

https://www.rcvresources.org/what-is-rcv/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting

https://fairvote.org/our-reforms/ranked-choice-voting/

Here is a good review of all the different voting methods (there are many)

https://www.princeton.edu/~cuff/voting/theory.html

From what I hear, Arnie Schwarzenegger is responsible for California having this awful voting method. Meanwhile, VOTE.

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Jim Robeson

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clever or wise

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“We have come as far as we have because we are the cleverest creatures to have ever lived on Earth. But if we are to continue to exist, we will require more than intelligence. We will require wisdom."
– David Attenborough

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Living Life

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Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. – Bertrand Russell