Three to Thirty Years Left (published Enterprise Record January 19, 2023 at 2:00 a.m.)

Earth and Natural Resource Scientists and Managers tell us we have but three to 30 years to avoid the worst of the Climatic Apocalypse. Three to 30 years! – That is it! If we can not implement restorative responses quickly we humans passed all survivable tipping points decades ago. Turning oversight governance authority of colleges and universities to local Native Tribes of America, of Australia, of Africa, of Asia, would marry science to 20,000 plus years of deeply ingrained natural resource attention and respect. This is just one example of the thousands of types of “baby steps” we need to make happen very quickly. Doing so quickly and well is part of stewardship. We need radical restorative change now. Resist, be kind but firm, listen, agitate, and sue at every opportunity. That is what climate scientists and the young have resorted to. We have between three and 30 years to implement radical adaptive change, or what we understand as Human History, Art, Knowledge, Technology, and Culture will be crushed under the scorned weight of a deeply scarred “Mother Earth.”