The staggering reality of 2017 is that with damages ranging in the area of $306 billion, it might be time to start paying attention to disaster movies. It’s not anything to start looting over or going nuts and moving to the southern climates, but it’s enough to get people thinking about the future and why the growing trend of climate change is becoming more and more real as the years go on. We’ve all seen our fair share of natural disaster movies, and for those that haven’t trust me, you might want to watch a couple just to get an idea of what’s being said. In 2017 the fact was that many people were starting to take these movies just a bit more seriously.
Up until now it’s been easy to dismiss them since a lot of said movies have about as much scientific fact driving them as could be found in a professional wrestling match. There might be science there, but it’s typically been skewed so bad and made to look entertaining that it’s not entirely real, or not real at all. Surviving in the eye of a massive hurricane as everything around you is freezing solid within seconds is not feasible, neither is a pair of young men outrunning a hungry pack of wolves, especially when one of them has already been hobbled. And the common sense factor in such movies tends to be a bit unrealistic as well, since a lot of people that see a wall of rising water racing down an avenue towards them would want to be in a building far taller than the New York library, which is perhaps one of the many buildings that would be completely flooded in such a rush.
All criticism and joking aside though the very real idea that a climate shift could be occurring is something that’s got people a bit up in arms and wondering just when those that refuse to believe it are going to start taking the signs seriously. Across the US 2017 was a very rough year. From the storms that continually hit the coastlines and the wildfires that burned steadily for so long, the United States and Puerto Rico, as well as other areas of the world, were hammered pretty relentlessly. There wasn’t a whole lot of reprieve from last year, and the damages are more than enough to tell the story. If that doesn’t wake up the disbelievers I’m not sure what will.
If you listen to the doomsayers that like to take the idea of global warming and the irreversible damage that’s been done then you might already be in full panic mode. But if you’re a rational thinker and want to wait before going batty trying to figure out what’s going to happen next, you might want to listen to those that are speaking of how the world is in fact experiencing a climate change, but is not yet lost. A great deal of damage has been done, that much is right, but it’s not too late to turn it around. But we should start paying more attention to just how we do that.
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