THE NEXT FIVE YEARS WILL BE THE HOTTEST ON RECORD

After hearing on the radio this morning that the next five years will be the hottest on record, for our entire planet. Here are selections written about the ongoing global Climate Crisis from The New Now / Manifestos, Reinventions & Declarations / Updated & Expanded

Love Note to Tomorrow #8 / 2019 / Abstract mixed media panting / Russell C. Smith

Introduction to The New Now / Manifestos, Reinventions & Declarations / Updated & Expanded

The Climate Crisis has worsened and sped up, and it’s clear we’ve reached the tipping point that was predicted, quite clearly in Al Gore’s 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. In 2022, Superstorms were upgraded to Storms of the Century, and rainfall totals of a decade’s worth of rain happened over a four-day nonstop deluge. After superstorm hurricane Ian pummeled Cuba, it smashed into Florida’s Gulf Coast midsection, flooding and destroying whole cities and communities. Climate Emergency deniers continued not to believe their own eyes as a superstorm of this magnitude engulfed an entire state. How is it even possible to hate/fear/deny reality that much?

Living in the Divided States of America

It’s now unmistakable. We’re living in two separate countries.

Earlier each year, wildfire seasons are creating unbreathable air, more and more toxic to humans. Seattle was closed down for a week a few summers ago. It was too dangerous to go outdoors and breathe. In June, 2023, New York City and London experienced Climate Crisis related toxic air quality events.

Manifesto #3: Reinvent You

If not now, when?

Reinvention is about changing the course of how we respond to hard pressing realities like facing the worldwide humanity-made global Climate Crisis, and the massive cultural shift of a multi-year global pandemic. In an ongoing reality touching every life on the planet, we’re all massively transforming. To debate this fact is like debating whether the sun will rise tomorrow, or if the wind will push clouds across the sky. In this New Now, the reinvention of one’s way of doing and being has become a necessity.

We the People Declare a Worldwide Align with Reality Day

Get back on the highway leading to smarts, arts, and growing bigger hearts

When every child on the planet sees the massive scope of the problem of a Climate Emergency more clearly than many elected officials, it’s time to make fundamental changes in how elected officials are held responsible—not just in this current political moment, but for future generations. Now’s the time to begin asking every politician, placed both high and low, in and out of office, what can each of us do, today.

Up until a short while ago, the Climate Crisis was falsely presented as one political party against the other, when reality itself was called into question. The dialogue has now become smart science-minded, reality-based humans against humans who are OK with destroying our home planet.

If you’re a Climate Science Denier, you’re clearly not in touch with your senses. It’s on the news every single day. If you walk outside, you’ll experience it. The Climate Emergency has already ravaged our planet with superstorm-sized hurricanes and continent-engulfing wildfires. The oceans are literally rising. Every state in the United States, and every continent on the planet has been impacted by the Climate Crisis. It’s only going to get more intense, dangerous, and deadly. Wildfires in Canada and the United States are worsening year by year. It’s literally unsafe to go outside and breathe in toxic air in Portland, Seattle, and New York City. If, after having witnessed these events, you’re still a Climate Science Denier, here’s some good advice: step away from the smartphone that’s smarter than you and seek professional help. The obvious changes in our climate that occurred before the global pandemic brought human life on Earth to a standstill and should’ve gotten your attention. Scroll through your news feed. It’s there every day. Scientists have connected the dots, and have confirmed that, yes, what’s going on with our first global pandemic is associated with the eco-disasters that’ve already swept the planet.

Children have taken over the Climate Emergency conversation, and this is thrilling to behold. It’s the direction the world is going—smarter, more assertive children speaking up and saving the planet. One has to applaud them and marvel at the stark difference from how things used to be. People who want to turn the clock backwards are consumed by fear. Today’s children are fearlessly full of wonder.

Even if you look the other way, the rest of us are doing what it takes to create a greener and more sustainable world. Honor your own experiential truth, and step aside from the constant churn of the brainwashing media machinery. Don’t kid yourself. The Climate Crisis isn’t a debate. We’ve already crossed that threshold. It’s happening and intensifying. People in the desert are experiencing wildfires. In the desert.

Every country in the world must dedicate themselves to pursuing a green agenda and move past the senseless wars and cultural and behavioral norms that could eventually destroy humanity.

Manifesto #11

Year One, Zero Hour, and Every Clock is Ticking in New Now Time

We’re entering hotter, darker, colder, increasingly more devastating Climate Crisis times. It’ll take the world working as one, or at least large pockets or bioregions of the world working as one. Something that’s never been done before on our planet.