Climate Change and Your Retirement - A Changing Future

Most people will look at their future and decide where they wish to live, how to spend their time and how best to afford it. They may even consult financial planners and know what they will do with their time once retired. They usually do not look at their future from the perspective of climate change and global warming and the outcome of an ever-increasing burden on the ecology.

One of the most important issues for all of humanity is to have a sustainable environment and sustainable living conditions. This issue is however, still ignored by most people. While it is likely there will no longer be an environmentally sustainable future left within the next 25 years not many people are taking notice of this fact. This will mean that the future we would all like, one with favorable ecological conditions, may no longer be a certainty.

Most people would like to have a future whereby all their needs are met including enough fresh, clean air, clean water and to be able to live in a sustainable environment. They do not expect a future with such severely reduced forests, that these forests can no longer support the environment, or a potential future with lack of fresh, clean air. However, with the current trend of ever-increasing pollution and continual further devastation of forests there will soon no longer be a future that can sustain all people.

While the country in which you live can influence the quality of your lifestyle, it cannot control the way the planet's ecological structures respond to the ever-increasing pollution and ecological damage which is becoming an increasing burden. Changing weather patterns are already happening more and more and are a result of climate change.

Our forests can soon no longer adequately supply oxygen, which is a major contributor to humanity's health and well-being. In addition, the oxygen we breathe might also become more and more contaminated because of man-made chemical processes as well as fall-out from volcanic eruptions. Within the next five to seven years this diminishing of fresh clean air will become a real environmental issue.

The climate is changing due to global warming and ecologically unsustainable environments. This, in turn, is creating the untenable situation whereby, most likely within the next fifteen years, many rivers will no longer be able to support humanity. Also, because of the amount of pollution that flows into rivers there may no longer be adequate fresh water supplies. This may begin to affect many more people in the next ten years.

While most of us do not look at our future from an ecological perspective, it is important to begin to think of what the result will be of the current continuing ecological devastation and how this may affect your future. The current climate change issues as well as the ever-increasing pollution are creating an ecological disaster situation that can no longer be fixed and nature is not capable of restoring itself

Humanity will need to make adequate changes to their lifestyle, as there are no longer other options. It is running out of time.

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The American Environmental Movement - Hope For the Future

In the late 1960s, the Ecology flag first appeared -- flying at gatherings in People's Park in Berkeley and on patches sewn onto the sleeves of army-surplus coats. It symbolized a movement called "ecology" and marked the beginnings of a new wave of environmental activism. Air and water pollution, depletion of the ozone layer, chemical contamination, toxic waste, endangered species, and recycling to spare scarce resources were rallying cries of this exciting time.

The roots of this movement go deeper into American history, however. The writings of Thoreau (1817-1862) are the anthem. The dreamy amateur naturalist who was not honored during his lifetime has provided inspiration to generations of environmentalists.

Many others have provided leadership, written compelling books, or labored on the ground to carry out important efforts to further the protection of the environment in this country. Late 19th century reformers decried the depletion of the nation's resources and the costs of environmental negligence, particularly disease.
George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) wrote Man and Nature, perhaps the first truly American work of ecology. Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946) was an ardent conservationist and first chief of the U.S. Forest Service. John Muir (1838-1914) wrote eloquently of wilderness and helped found the Sierra Club, the foremost American environmental organization. John Burroughs (1837-1921) was the most important practitioner (after Thoreau) of the nature essay. The John Burroughs Medal is awarded annually for distinguished nature writing.

In the twentieth century Rachel Carson (1907-1964) awoke the nation with her book Silent Spring showing the dangerous effects of insecticides upon the environment. Aldo Leopold (1887-1948), the father of U.S. wildlife management and co-founder of The Wilderness Society has impacted generations with his bookSand County Almanac, a lyrical description of the ecology of a small landscape he loved. The Nature Conservancy has grown to be the largest environmental organization in the world, preserving millions of acres of unique ecosystems worldwide.

Look to a well-stocked bookstore for a full bookshelf of the best of American nature and environmental writing. Peter Matthiesson, Wallace Stegner, Rockwell Kent, Barry Lopez, Richard Nelson, Rick Bass, Loren Eiseley, Edward Abbey, E. O. Wilson, Stephen Jay Gould, Annie Dillard, Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, Colin Fletcher, John Steinbeck, Carl Safina, John McPhee: America is blessed with compassionate, articulate and learned writers who sharpen our senses and deepen our knowledge of the natural world. These writers have provided substance and sustenance for the U.S. environmental movement.

Tragic events have galvanized the environmental movement, stirring the nation to recognize, although belatedly, the need for action. Since World War II we are becoming more and more aware of the deadly consequences of environmental neglect and abuse. In 1954 the crew of a Japanese fishing vessel was exposed to radioactive fallout from U.S. nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll. In 1962, Silent Spring drew attention to the impact of chemicals on the environment. In 1967 and 1969 major oil spills occurred from tankers at sea. (and again, in 1989: the Exxon Valdez oil spill was one of the worst U.S. environmental disasters) In 1971 a lawsuit in Japan drew international attention to the effects of mercury poisoning.

In 1978 the Love Canal catastrophe exposed the hazards of improperly stored toxic waste. Ozone depletion, acid rain, air and water pollution, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the Three Mile Island incident, global warming -- each of these terrible disasters and looming catastrophes has heightened awareness of the fragility of the environment and our vulnerability to its despoilation.

Through all this -- and despite the Bush II administration's efforts to turn back the clock on environmental protections -- the environmental movement has only grown stronger. Former Vice President Al Gore made it his business after the 1996 election debacle to focus on his passion of protecting the environment. The homegrown slide show that he presented to audiences around the world grew into a documentary, which won an Academy Award; his TV work earned him several Emmys; and in 2007, he was the co-recipient (with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Paul Hawken's book Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Comingcelebrates the power and potential of the worldwide environmental movement, a loose and growing coalition of groups, organizations and individuals worldwide who are devoted to improving our natural environment. The authors of Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility call for big thinking and big action to address our current ecological crisis -- thinking and mobilization of effort on the same order of magnitude as the efforts that produced the microchip and the Internet; that built the atomic bomb and put a man on the moon; or that pulled together the economic powerhouse of the European Union out of a mixture of twenty different countries, each with their own culture, language and thousand-year history of fighting each other.

These are dangerous, exciting and challenging times as we race to address the global environmental issues that place at risk life on Earth. We have the knowledge to begin to address the important environmental issues. Let's do it.



David Yarian, Ph.D. http://www.DavidYarian.com is a practicing Psychologist in Nashville, TN and a lifelong environmentalist. Visit http://www.SavingTheEarth.net for recommended books and resources on the environment, renewable energy, global warming, green living, conservation, the best nature writing and more. Dr. Yarian also authored The Guide to Self-Help Books http://www.Books4SelfHelp.com an online resource with recommended titles and book reviews.

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