Don't Eat (or do anything) Outside
This is a warming warning
Because of the tremendous smoke outside from the wildfires in Canada, I thought I would post this New Yorker cartoon. My guess is that not many people are eating outside in the Northeast US right now.
We are actually being told to stay inside; it’s particularly hazardous for people at risk. I worry about Canadians affected by the fires on-site, of course.
As Biden said in a statement, it’s all connected to the global warming crisis.
The sky has an eery golden haze to it and distances are hard to see. My daughter said it feels claustrophobic. It’s true, it feels that way, and it also has an apocalyptic feel to the way the air and sky looks.
But the birds are still singing, and every now and then the sun pokes out. It will be over soon and life will resume as normal. Will we learn anything about climate change? I hope so.
Here’s a climate change drawing I did a few years ago for Moms Clean Air Force, an organization that helps fight pollution and climate change. They had a rally at that time, and I did a cartoon to point out that yes, one can do anything anywhere to help bring change.
See you tomorrow.
This has been our life almost every summer for the past few years here in the PNW, but I know from my 25 years in NJ that it's a new phenomenon for you. A silver lining in the smoky cloud is that it is also enveloping DC, where too many politicians have been trying to persuade us that this a western US problem caused by failure to rake our forests!
ohhh... my heart melted at the two polar bears. I think that drawing will live on my fridge for awhile.
Thanks Liza. May your skies be blue, and your air be clean.