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indy

Welcome to the last installment of my environmental musings. It’s been an interesting week for me - I’ve definitely read, thought, talked and typed more about the environment this week than I have in a long time. It’s been good for me to jump start my education again and remember that even though I’ve read a lot about this in the past, the world is constantly changing and there’s always more to learn.
I’ve managed to make it through the whole week without mentioning our current pandemic, even though it’s shaping almost every aspect of our lives right now. I wouldn’t be spending so much time at home researching and typing if the world wasn’t shut down - I was supposed to start a month long bike tour last week.
But my biggest take away from COVID-19 is that societal change is possible on shockingly short notice when we actually have the will.
I’ve spent my whole life knowing about climate change and witnessing it firsthand in the mountains, yet hearing the same tired arguments that it either wasn’t happening or that it wasn’t worth acting on because nothing could be done fast enough.
My whole life has been a long list of climate near misses - the US never even ratified Kyoto, and then dropped out of the Paris Accord. I’ve grown up thinking that the US never really gets anything done, no real change, nothing on a big scale (to be fair, I was a bit too young to appreciate the rise of the internet…). It’s actually incredibly heartening for me to see that our world is capable of rapid change. We just have to actually try.

(And now I’ll return to my usual sparse interactions with social media, though I’ll be continuing my Tuesday chats with experts related to the @honnoldfoundation . Hopefully I’ll be back to climbing pics soon enough… though I might try to make a habit of posting long environmental posts whenever I finish a good book on the subject. We’ll see. And thanks everyone for the lively commentary and debate. I like to learn. And thanks @jimmychin and @austin_siadak for all the great pics. This one’s from the base of Yosemite Falls. About to solo Freestone - 5.11c/6c+)

indy