Current Photo Friday theme: Force of Nature
I’ve used this photo on here before, taken in August after the powerful tornado that swept through Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in April 2011. Here’s the text I included with the photo back then:
A woman with her five-month-old was in this house owned by her parents. She took the baby to the basement during the tornado. When they emerged–safe–later, she found all that was left of her home: a baby crib, a kitchen wall with a refrigerator, and her parents’ piano.
I wish people believed climate change is real and needs to be addressed quickly. I wish they’d vote out of office those who are controlled by lobbyists who care only about profit and nothing about the planet. These kinds of events will only get worse. We are destroying the only home we have with greed, indifference, and denial.
I think a lot of the attitudes surfacing in response to the COP26 climate summit tells us that attitudes haven’t changed much.
With all of the privately-funded space races going on at the mo, I think Prince William was quite right when he said that people should be focused on the planet we have, rather than finding somewhere else to explore.
I figure if eventually all the greedy and hateful people want to colonize another planet, what will we lose if they go? They’re certainly making life unbearable on this one.
This is true. Hopefully Donald Trump and Boris Johnson are on the first shuttle.
I’d be fine with that.