High gas prices hurt, but they're an opportunity to make good choices
By Eugene Robinson
The water level in Nevada’s Lake Mead has fallen so low that authorities found two bodies previously hidden in the reservoir’s depths, one an apparent homicide victim stuffed into a barrel. Upstream along the Colorado River, in shrinking Lake Powell, another set of waterlogged human remains was recently found in a submerged car. Meanwhile, the bodies of long-dead mountain climbers are emerging from the melting glaciers of the Himalayas and the Alps.
Those macabre discoveries are the result of climate change, which doesn’t care about the war in Ukraine or spiking gasoline prices or the coming midterm elections. Climate change marches on, and we ignore it in favor of our immediate interests at our grave near-term peril.
A mammoth wildfire in New Mexico has burned more than 370 square miles over the past few weeks and remains out of control. A deadly heat wave is scorching much of India and Pakistan, with daytime high temperatures of up to 120 degrees and lows in the 90s — and it isn’t even summer yet. A new Chinese government report says that rapid sea-level rise poses an unprecedented threat to the teeming coastal cities of the world’s most populous nation.
I could go on. But we all know by now that climate change is ravaging the planet. We just keep finding reasons not to take the steps — or make the sacrifices — that we know are necessary to curb carbon emissions and prevent the worst-case scenarios from becoming our hellish reality.
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