I’ve been around a long time. Farmed most of my life. Watched the seasons change, year after year. Some were dry, some wet. Cold snaps in June, thaws in January. That’s just how it was. Nature had her own way of keeping things in balance.

So when folks talk about climate change, I can’t say it’s all new to me. The Earth’s been shifting for a long time. We’ve had ice ages, warm spells, droughts, and floods long before people were driving cars or flying in planes. That part I understand.

But if I’m being honest, something’s not just right now.

The thing is, our Weather’s not just different, it’s strange. Too many records getting broken. Too much heat too fast. Fires burning longer. Rains coming when they’re not supposed to. It feels like the rhythm’s out of step.

And I believe that we humans got something to do with it.

You can’t cut down forests, pave over everything, and pump smoke into the air for over a hundred years and expect nothing to happen. We’ve sped things up. Maybe not on purpose, but it’s happening all the same.

The scientists today say we’re getting close to breaking points or tipping points, they call them… where once something changes, it keeps on changing, no turning back. Glaciers melting faster, ocean currents slowing down, forests drying up.

That’s not the kind of thing you fix with a new law or a better gadget. That takes time, and I kinda feel time’s something we’re running out of.

Now, I’m not trying to scare anyone. But I am saying we ought to start paying attention, and if we don’t smarten up, the next generation’s going to be dealing with a world a whole lot harder to live in.

That’s just how I see it.

Until the next time: Keep Your Minds Open & Your Stories Alive. GW