A program called Six Degrees Could Change the World premiers on the Nat. Geog. Channel this month, produced by Mark Lynas, author of Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet.
The show and book describe effects of rising temperatures in the present and future and offers ideas about what everyone can do to help before climate problems get too hot to handle.
I’ll price the book and get back to you.
A newspaper clipping reads: Global warming poses risk to public health. The article concerns a report by the Ontario College of Family Physicians in which the statement is made “the effects of climate change could bring on an onslaught of health problems nationwide. And even small incremental rises in temperatures could have a profound effect on public health.
Go to World News for more about similar reports.
[Photo gah: Stay healthy. Take more walks at Port Bruce.]
In my last column I wrote that my adult sons might move back home at any time due to hard times.
E.g. "...since our economy is joined at the hip to our southern neighbour’s, and many young Canadians are up to their eyeballs with mortgage, car and other debt payments, and PM Harper is continually warning us that a hard rain’s a-gonna fall because of higher energy costs, my sons could come knockin’ any day now."
Though they would have to follow the ten new (old) rules of the house I think we would manage quite well and live a greener life together. (Fewer homes means fewer lawn mowers, renos, cars, hair clippers, furniture etc.)
I found these words to live by at the excellent blog green bean dreams.
"The greenest products are the ones you don't buy." Leslie Garrett
Great quote, Leslie. See you Monday at The Roaster for coffee.
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