For 20 years I have
worked on the issue of climate change--mostly from the angle of energy efficiency. I understand the severity of the crisis and the need for fast and significant action. But it's been a bit abstract from a personal standpoint. I was not one of the 20 million
Pakistanis dislocated by the flooding there in 2010. I don't live in parts of New Jersey or New York that were ravaged by
Hurricane Sandy.
But now it's different.
Last year the
Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado Springs destroyed 346 homes. The most destructive day of that fire occurred when Colorado Springs experienced its first 100-degree temperature in recorded history. And there had been a 3-year drought at that point. My brother is a firefighter in Colorado Springs, and he worked on the fire.
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