Good old Global Warming. The days have been warm and the sun has been shining and it’s only February. I mean, the fact that the emissions of greenhouse gases that drive global warming are higher than ever recorded and could leave devastating effects on future generations isn’t our problem.

Yeah, sure the cost of climate change will be extremely expensive and the U.S. climate destruction budget is already up to $100 billion and is projected to rise to $700 billion by 2030. But 2030 is way up the road. That’s not our problem.

And yeah, the amount of people forcibly removed from their homes because of climate change recently has been an estimated 20 million and by 2050 could be up to 200 million. Plus in a 2014 study published in Environmental Letters, it was predicted that a sea level rise produced by a temperature increase of 3 degrees C would cause up to 600 million people to be displaced from their homes but oh well. That’s their problem. Not ours. Right?

Yeah yeah, it’s possible that up to eight percent more of the world’s population will experience water scarcity by 2100 due to the temperature increase of 33.8 degrees F by that year but it’s okay. At least it’s almost shorts weather.

Ok so I get that by 2050 it’s been predicted by the World Resource Institution that almost all coral reefs will be at risk of extinction because they won’t be able to survive more than a two degree temperature increase of global average. And with the extinction of coral reefs comes the hundreds of fish species without shelter or food, which could lead to their extinction as well. Sure that’s kind of bad for them but that doesn’t affect me. Not my problem.

I guess it can be a bad thing if hurricanes may get up to 11% more intense by 2100 which would definitely increase the devastation immensely in coastal area, also furthering the amount of people displaced from their homes but we live in Iowa. We don’t even get hurricanes. It’s not our problem.

And it may be a problem if an additional 20 million more children will go hungry by 2050 due to wildfires, droughts, floods and other natural disasters will damage many farmlands that will threaten food security for millions of people…

Global warming is a real issue that may not be affecting us directly today, but it will be sooner than you think. The recent temperature increases this February have been nice, but we need to be doing everything we can to decrease our inputs of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. It is definitely your problem.