When Mother Nature is kicked to the curb (Letters to the Editor | January 12, 2023 at 2:37 a.m.)

The latest weather calamity is not normal. It is, instead, payment on a bill due, compounding on an environmental credit card pushed pedal-to-the-metal. These “bombs” with Mother Nature are nowhere near what they will become. There is no governor on this thing. It is racing down our decrepit crumbling potholed infrastructures like a bat-out-of-hell. Today is as good as it will ever be again. Compassion First Please! The first thing we as a community need to do to prepare for our own safety is to exercise our public compassion by sheltering those of our citizens without a roof. There will be many more coming. Many will be us. There are 1,899 listed 501(c)3 Nonprofits in Butte County alone. If each one was made accountable to consider simple basic refuge to just one additional community citizen we could protect twice the current population of those who live here without a roof. I am not talking fancy, but basic address, toilet, cover, air conditioning, garbage service. Whatever actions we take, it begins with preserving the natural capacities of the land. Our survival as a community depends on laws and policies that serve every individual and takes deep appreciation and attention to the undeniable fixed Physics of Nature. Until then, the lies of capital and our public ignorance and cruelties continue to add burden to the old roof Nature once gave Humans for free.