Citizens Climate lobby Roscommon/Crawford Chapter

My First Climate Change Blog Rocommon/Crawford Chapter of Ccl leaders decided at a recent meeting to give our crack editorial team a brief respite from their blogging work by asking another member of our group to prepare a blog. Here is the first effort from Wylie, a relatively new member. Hello. My name is Wylie and this is my first blog. Whoee! I am a little new at this so I’ll start at the beginning. I attended my first Chapter meeting recently because of my buddy Earl. He had attended one meeting before me and he urged me to come to the next meeting with him. I asked him why. “Its because they give you free pizza just for attending,” he said with a big grin. That was good enough for me so Earl and I attended the next meeting at the Gahagan Center in Roscommon. The meeting was interesting. Our leaders talked about a whole bunch of stuff I didn’t know, mostly about problems being brought on by pollution of our atmosphere. I didn’t say much as I was mostly waiti...

Roscommon/Crawford Chapter And the answer is … Wait a minute! Wait a minute, what is the question? As the popular game show Jeopardy! teaches, the appropriate answer depends upon the precise phrasing of the question. Before hearing the question, you should know it is probably the most important question of our time. By the way, this blog also yields the answer we promised to provide in our last blog. Here is the question: What shall we do about climate change? What shall we do to save ours and the next generation of humans, animals, and plants from the ravages of floods, fires, and increasing temperatures that wreak havoc with our planet? The answer is … we must reduce man-made emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. We must stop wanton polluting of the thing we need most for life to continue as we know it, and as our parents and theirs knew it in their lifetimes. Reducing carbon dioxide emissions sounds easy, but how can we reduce u...