We Worry About The Wrong Things.

       To add to my last post, this last January was the forth warmest January on record, for the world. So if you've suffered through a cold snowy winter so far, you're not experiencing the normal winter for 2014. The normal 2014 winter is much warmer and much dryer. In fact in the west, as in California west, it's been much dryer for some considerable time. And that spells trouble for most Americans and our diets. No I don't mean weight loss, although it wouldn't hurt for me to lose some.
       What I don't understand is why we're not working feverishly to mitigate the problems associated with global warming and climate change caused at least in part by human activity. Even if you're a climate change denier, it's pretty hard to deny the drought California is suffering through. After all, it's not as though it doesn't affect the rest of us. If you have a habit of eating on any regular basis, you might want to consider what it will mean if we can't depend on California for a substantial portion of the food we consume.
       Why doesn't it make sense to at least begin to talk about what we can and should do to offset the damage to this huge supply of food for America? Instead we keep thinking about how we can keep some folks from voting, how much proof of residency is needed to vote, who should or should not get married, who should or should not get a helping hand from a government safety-net, who can come into America and from where, how many guns do we need to be safe, how and when the world happened or how long it's okay to be unemployed.
        I don't mean to be picky, but shouldn't we be thinking more about what's best for all of us and less about what's a hot button issue for ourselves. I mean, isn't that a selfish way to think? I'd like to believe Americans are a people who take care of our own and welcome newcomers with open arms. I'd like to, but lately it's hard to believe that. You'd think that food would be something we could all agree we want to remain available to all of us.