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Climate crisis
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M ichael B rune
I've been w orking on
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m ate crisis fo r a long
tim e, but 1 n ev er really
ex p ected that it w ould
hit hom e for m e quite the w ay it did.
C hadw ick B each, the sm all N ew
Jersey tow n w here I grew up and
w here m y parents still live, w as one
o f m any com m unities in Superstorm
Sandy's path.
It w as an idyllic place to grow up.
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M y w ife and I still take our kids back
hom e each sum m er. It's w here I fell
in love w ith the ocean and, by ex ten
sion, all o f nature, from redw ood
forests to alpine m eadow s.
F o r tu n a te ly , m y p a re n ts
w eren't hom e w hen the storm
slam m ed into the G arden State.
T he dam age along the sh o re
line is so severe that they haven't
been able to get back to th eir
house to learn its full extent.
But m y u n cle’s house is flooded,
the restaurant w here I bussed tables
has been destroyed, and neighbors'
houses have been spotted floating
in the bay. I've seen photos online
that show the hom es ju st a few
blocks from ours com pletely inun-
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dated, and the dam age reports from
friends are num bing. N o one has
seen anything like it before.
I w ish I could say w e'll n ev er see
anything like it again in o u r life
tim es, but that's not how the w ind is
blow ing. The frightening co n se
quences o f clim ate disruption that
scientists have w arned us about for
d ecad es are already here. Sandy is
only the latest and m ost d ev astat
ing incident in a pattern o f extrem e
w eather that's becom e im possible
to ignore.
O u r nation suffered through a
record-high 14 w eather events last
year that caused at least $1 billion
each in dam ages. So far in 2012,
w e've seen a drought that d ev as
tated M idw estern farm ers, historic
w ildfires that laid w aste to hom es in
C olorado, T exas, W yom ing, M on
tana, and beyond, and thousands
o f heat records broken across the
nation.
"In ju s t 14 m onths, tw o hurri
canes have forced us to evacuate
neighborhoods — som ething our
city governm ent had never done
before," w rote N ew Y ork M ayor
M ichael B loom berg. "If this is a
trend, it is sim ply not sustainable."
H e's right.
T he connection betw een clim ate
ch an g e and catastro p h es is now
painfully obvious to scientists and
insurance com panies alike. It's get
ting clearer to the A m erican people,
especially my friends and fam ily on
the Jersey Shore.
A nd clim ate change is about more
than ju st tem perature. It's about dis
rupting the basic w eather patterns
that affect alm ost everything in our
lives — from o ur w ater supplies, to
how we grow o ur food, the kinds o f
d is e a s e s a n d in s e c ts p re v a le n t
w here w e live, and o ur ability to
keep our fam ilies and hom es safe.
O ur addiction to coal and oil
threatens the future o f our planet,
hurting fam ilies now and putting
o ur children and grandchildren at
risk. W e d eserve strong action from
our leaders — not only to help the
com m unities hit by disasters recover
but also to reduce the likelihood and
severity o f future disasters.
M aking changes that w ill reduce
clim ate disruption now is less ex
pensive than ju s t staying the course
and dealing w ith m ounting clim ate-
related chaos later. By reducing our
use o f dirty fossil fuels and invest
ing in clean energy and energy effi
ciency, w e can cut p o w er and fuel
costs, create m illions o f jo b s, clean
up our air and w ater, and com bat
clim ate disruption at the sam e time.
It's tim e to end our dependence
on fossil fuels and invest in clean
energy. W e m ust dem and that our
leaders accelerate o ur transition to
clean energy and adopt aggressive
efficiency m easures to reduce our
energy use.
Michael Brune is the executive
director o f the Sierra Club.