It's Too Late

 It's Too Late 

(roll Carol King "It's too late".)

I've been on this planet of ours for 60 odd years. In my opinion it's too late. We've passed the tipping point and nothing we can do now will stop it. So, We'd better get used to the heat, storms and the death of a multitude of plants and animals on our planet. Even worse, as the permafrost and ice melts it will release previously sequestered carbon, viruses and bacterium that we haven't had to deal with for thousands of years. If you think Covid was bad wait until you catch the Jurassic flu.

It's Great Chain. 

The frogs die off and eventually the predators who feed on them die too. The bees die off and plants that they helped pollinate eventually die off, too. Plants like apples, corn, almonds, etc.

Habitat Destruction

We hack down trees which, for thousands of years have given us breath, held back the land from sliding and given shelter to species that are another part of that great chain.

It's too late, now. The best we can do is to slow it down and that, only if we slow or stop the carnage. If we do we won't stop it, we will just slow it down. It's too late to stop it.

We've already fished out the Herring, Tuna etc. Any suggestions on how to stop the factory ships from killing the Oceans? Even with good regulations, they'll find a way to get around it. More people makes a need for more food, 

Greed, it's all about greed and stupidity. If only we understood what's going on. If only we gave a damn when we do figure it out.

1972

40 odd years ago I whined about the Great Lake frog population mutating from pollution. My family laughed at me. If I was 6 years old at the time they would have patted me on the head and said something reassuring. Remember the idiotic Senator with the snowball? Remember the Cigarette manufacturers?

We've always known what we needed to do, but the monied interests have always prioritized their bottom line over the survival of our planet. So have the officials we elect to get things done.

The Answer

There isn't one. Period. We had our moments and due to greed and stupidity (see above) we blew it. At least I'll be dead before the worst of the food riots start. 

Jupiter's Journey

Jupiter's Journey

 We live in an unusual star system. Most of the systems in our Galaxy, that we got a look at are binary star systems. The Solar System should have been, too. Anyway here's the short version of my take on it:

 Jupiter is the binary partner to our sun that never quite made the leap to fusion. Most likely because the Sun got there first and blew Jupiter's flame out and swung it into the outer reaches; re-aligning planets and moons on the way.

 The new orbit grabbed the outer planets and re-aligned them, too.

 The Sun continued it's fusion reaction gaining mass (and gravitational power). On Jupiter's way back in the Suns gravity whipped Jupiter into a new orbit, closer in and less elliptical. This may have been the trip that dragged Mercury into it's devastating orbit.

 Once again, almost star Jupiter influenced the orbits of the inner planets and began the internal stresses on the new inner planets that started devastating volcanic eruptions. On the it's way to the outer part of our system, the Outer Planets influenced Jupiter as much as it did them and re-aligned Jupiter's orbit again.

 One final trip inward, Jupiter's new orbit dragged tons of asteroids from the Ort Cloud to bombard the planets on it's last trip before it's final settling onto it's current orbit.

 Now we are up to The Late Heavy Bombardment.

 Venus never recovered from the volcanoes. Mercury was baked into the shape it's in now. Mars barely recovered from the volcanoes when the bombardment finished destroying it's atmosphere. Earth got lucky thanks to it's position between Mars and the Sun and only got a near miss from Jupiter's latest swing through the system.

 When our Moon final settled it's orbit it helped drag water up through Earth's crust and helped create the ocean world we now enjoy.