#blamemetoo

[pigspythons]

You’re as much to blame as the guy who lit the fire.

So here's the thing I've been thinking about lately.  Indonesia's forests are burning, many are breathing the haze.  It's terrible for our health, our businesses, our environment.  Yes, it is a disaster of proportions which people will fail to explain.

But if I hear one more time that this problem is just Indonesia's (education, corruption, apathy), or just palm oil's (capitalism, greed, blah blah), or “mainly it’s a m*&^$%#r f*&%##n huge ‘Godzilla El Nino’”, I'm going to....   Ahhhhhhhhh!  Do something crazy!

Hello?  Welcome to the future people.  We all contribute to a slowly warming planet, where droughts and massive fires are going to last longer than they would otherwise.  “Godzilla El Nino”?   Try “Extinction El Nino”. 

Have you ever tried burning anything in the tropics during normal weather conditions?  Not easy, because it is usually wet.  Fires can’t burn for months on end like this, unless something is wrong.  Just like in 1997 and 2006, these abnormal fires are happening because things are abnormal.  There's not enough moisture and too much heat, for starters.

Trying to tell me that Indonesians are to blame for this mess is kind of like saying Alaskans drilling for oil are to blame for shrinking glaciers.

The thing about this planet is that it is the only one you will ever see, taste, feel, touch and smell.  We're all on it together, and in it together.  We need to make some smart decisions soon about how we will prevent things like “feedback loops”.  Fire makes more carbon monoxide and methane which are terrible greenhouse gases.  The gases trap more heat, which warms the planet, makes droughts more extreme, and when the fires start, they last longer and burn hotter.  And so goes the feedback loop.

Don’t go blaming other people in other places for things which are directly attributable to yourself.  You’re as much to blame as the guy who lit the fire, because without you, me, and all of our industrialized ancestors, rain would have put out his fire long ago.  Criminals are burning forests because we enabled them to.

Are you going to miss those Bornean Orangutan and Sumatran Tigers when they are all burnt to a crisp?  Stop buying gasoline.  Otherwise, suck it up and with a full and willing heart say to all of your friends, “I am also to blame for this tragedy.”  Or #blamemetoo