State of Denial

It ' s just human nature, I suppose, but we have to face and defeat our instinct to turn away and pretend that predictable catastrophe isn ' t actually happening. Al Gore titled his documentary An Inconvenient Truth, recognizing that people won ' t see what they don ' t want to see, but 15 years later, nothing has really changed. So here ' s the deal. Much of the southwest U.S is already in extreme drought, and it ' s going to get much worse. The cold truth is that there will not be enough water to sustain the population and industry of a vast stretch of the country. To quote the CNN story, " While there will be wet years, the overall trend is towards drying. Scientists say this is a result of human-caused climate change, which is leading to less reliable rain and warmer temperatures — both consistent with what has been projected by climate computer models. " If you thought the wildfires were bad last year, just wait.  Wanna know why all those Guatemalan children are showing up on the southern border?Heres ' why:  Rising numbers of children in Guatemala are going hungry as drought linked to climate change reduces food harvests, fueling child malnutrition rates in the Central American nation, the United Nations and charities said. . . ." There is an increase in cases of acute malnutrition that are related to climate change and the long periods of drought from June to October (last year), " said Maria Claudia Santizo, a nutrition specialist at the U.N...
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