A thoughtful post about how there’s been considerable technological adaptation to the environment over the last 25 years since the global warming threat was supposedly first identified.
On June 23, 1988, James Hansen testified before a Senate committee saying that man made global climate change had begun. Two months later a member of the Bush family was nominated as Republican candidate for president and a huge earthquake in Nepal killed over 1,000 people. The U.S. Drought of 1988 caused big crop damage in many states, impacts many portions of the United States and causes around $60 billion in damage. Multiple regions suffered in the conditions. Heat waves caused 4,800 to 17,000 excess deaths while scorching many areas of the United States. Is history a cycle, a circle or a spiral?
Of course, virtually nobody was on the internet, virtually nobody had a mobile phone, there was no Google, no Facebook, no Twitter, so we’re making more of Hansen’s testimony today than we did at the time.
There have been a lot of changes in the past…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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