TIMES RECORD • August 12, 2021
Recently a large number of scientists released a report indicating that the climate is changing far more quickly than most other reports have suggested. Very soon, according to the report, the planet will pass the point of no return. In other words, soon nothing we do will stop the slide into climate chaos. And still there are billionaires traveling into space, huge private ships plying the world’s oceans, private jets disgorging C02 into the sky and myriad large cars and other fuel burning vehicles contributing to the problem. This is not the first civilization to end through selfishness and greed, but it could well be the last. My generation tried 50-plus years ago to address the problem. I am sorry we failed. ~ Bart Chapin, Arrowsic