Hundreds of deaths were being investigated as heat related in Oregon, Washington state and British Columbia. The dangerous heat began June 25 and only began to subside in some areas on Tuesday the 29th.
The death toll in Oregon alone has reached at least 95, the state medical examiner said on Friday, with most occurring in Multnomah County, which encompasses Portland. The deaths include an Guatemalan immigrant who collapsed as he worked at a plant nursery in a rural Oregon town during the soaring heat.
Death toll from Northwest heat wave expected to keep rising | The Kansas City Star
The northwest---land of our rainforest, our always coolish, always green lands.
There are Asian Elephants wandering across countries seeking a place that can sustain their lives.
We just had a hotter than ever June despite record rains---that translates to swampish conditions working outside. Clothes saturated with sweat in less than 2 hours despite shade and breeze.
A building collapsed in Florida--right off of the Ocean.
Whales are dying.
There are 3900 tigers living in the wild.
There are about 10,000 tigers living in captivity.
In the last decade, 160 species went extinct.
There are at least 4 trucks in my small town of 15,000 that have altered their exhaust to belch clouds of black smoke on command.
I'm starting to understand that we, the all-of-us we, are not going to actually fix climate change.
I'm getting that I may or may not see how bad it can get, I'm over 60, but am noticing that exercising and breathing in this soupy air is harder every year. But I'm also starting to get that my grandkids might not see how bad it can get.
We joke about cave men being old by 40. I'm sure that a rare person lived as long as our oldest now, but I'm also sure that life expectancy was actually about 40.
That means lots of dead men/women/children.
Humans are great at adapting, but not so good at sharing, at sacrificing their own creature comforts, (crying about masks, fights about missing huge group events---just to keep from spreading a virus that was killing people) and if the pandemic was too hard to live through, how much worse will it have to get to bring the planet back from our own, selfish, high-profit, tasty but bad for you eating habits and creature comforts.
Those trucks, belching eye-watering, nose burning, throat-clenching smoke for no reason except to say---"look what I can do, you silly pansies".
Like overbred show-dogs, we have bred out our own ability to survive.
