I remember asking you, especially when we disagreed on facts, what I could do to convince you how dangerous your candidate was. Fortitude, faith, knowing we have survived before, and knowing we could DO something, many things, in fact, are not to be underrated when all seems lost!Īlso, remember during the last Presidential election we had that really good conversation where we both admitted some of our concerns about the candidates we were going to vote for? To have such an honest and substantive exchange was so reassuring - even though we ended up cancelling out each other’s votes. I remember when I was sad or scared as a kid, you would sit and read to me or tell me stories from Tanakh that cheered me up and made it all better. More frequent, more intense than now, each force-multiplying the other: wildfires, hurricanes, droughts, melting ice sheets, rising and warmer oceans, species extinction, crop failure, mass migrations, and the wars for food, land and potable water, breakdown of infrastructure, supply chain and order, and more, and worse. I’ve been reading in advance of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, seeing the models of what will happen when my grands and your great-grands are hopefully having their kids (2050), when the world, depending on what we do now, will be 1.5 degrees warmer (Celsius) or 2 or 3.
I did a lot of praying the last few months that our grandkids will live a life without a supercluster of suffering. I’m trying to emulate your unconditional love for us “kids” (now grandparents ourselves!) and also follow the way you think about your legacy and “the importance of leaving something good behind,” as you put it. It made me think of you since you are the closest thing I have to a grandparent. Miss you! I’m reading this book about a new field called attribution science (highly recommend!) and came across the above quote. During our lifetime, the temperature on Earth has increased by around 1.1 degrees Fahrenheit, fundamentally altering our climate and thus the weather.” Weather that palpably deviates from what was encountered by our grandparents, their grandparents, their grandparents, and so on. “We are the first generation to experience a different type of weather.
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