"Sitting in our dimly lit, cool houses, munching local, organic food and riding our bikes to work will certainly help but not enough"

Commentary Series: Kittredge: Tsunami Of Global Warming

This year I signed up for a Lenten Carbon Fast, cutting back not on chocolate - gracious, no! - but on my own carbon footprint. The New England Regional Environmental Ministries shoots me an email early each morning with a suggestion for the day: turn off one lamp for the duration of the fast; build a compost bin, watch closely what food you throw away as the food discarded annually by an average household adds the equivalent CO2 emissions of 1-5 cars. The suggestions are pretty easy to do and this is both good and bad. Because while I turn off a light, lower the thermostat, heat the stir-fry yet again, the tsunami of global warming continues to rise before us.
...Sitting in our dimly lit, cool houses, munching local, organic food and riding our bikes to work will certainly help but not enough.

Our planet is quaking and we disregard the tsunami of global warming at our grandchildren's peril.