2022

Already two weeks in to the new year. And one year since I bought a car, after fifteen years of bicycle commuting and travel.

The editorial slant in many of the magazines I've been reading over the past year is that climate apocalypse is happening, the end is nigh, and there is nothing we can do to slow or stop it. I do believe in climate change, and that it has been influenced by human activity. I also believe the Earth is resilient, and has survived through many periods of drastic change, and life goes on. We don't know the time-line of the changes to come, and we can't be sure of what events will occur, where and when. Life goes on. It's still worth trying to repair the damage, and adapt.

Last year (or the year before?) the Washington state legislature passed a law that would have made gasoline powered automobiles illegal by 2030, or maybe it was 2050, but soon anyway, either one would have been a pretty short deadline. Our staunch environmentalist governor Jay Inslee vetoed the bill, wisely I think. I agree that it would be best to phase out gas-burning cars, but this law would have started an insurrection worse than January 6, worse than anything that happened in Portland, worse than if he'd tried to outlaw guns.