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Islands, surrounded by ocean, which is very wet, from the standpoint of water, are burning. It’s like being on a wooden ship that caught fire. I live in a rural farmland area sitting at the edge of where the NC coastal plain begins. Monocroppers have leveled forests to create farm acreage, and they deplete the soil with their practices. We have a high water table, with loamy soil, pockets of clay and sand, which is magical for farming if treated properly, but somehow they manage to turn their soil into depleted sand. It doesn’t matter what cover crop they put down because they spray it with Roundup and then till it. It’s just not enough. On any given summer day, there can be acres full of freshly sprayed, dead and dried cover crops sitting idle and awaiting tillage. Fire would race through such fields and there’s very little to stop it, despite water being only a little over a foot below. It gets oppressively hot here, and humidity puts the heat index into triple digits, but we get droughts as well as flooding. Most people out here want no trees in their yards, only lawn grass, clipped short. And they might believe in climate change, but they don’t believe they can do anything about it, and certainly aren’t interested in leaving their comfort zone in any way in order to do so. It’s always someone else’s job to fix what they broke, including the planet. Unless the governments of the world are willing to make big changes and enforce them upon the populace, we are all gonna burn. That 30% of the populace who are deplorables won’t participate or even just curb their behaviors without being forced to.

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OT: I'm sure those of you on the spectrum will just love this.

We went to Savers today so I could look for some work clothes. At the register, I was making small talk with the cashier about back to school stuff, and out of the blue, she said, "We used to call kids brats. Now, it's autism." I was almost too shocked to speak, but pointed to my daughter, who was bagging our stuff, and said, "My daughter's autistic." B hadn't heard the whole thing, and I didn't want to make a scene and embarrass my daughter, so we left. I was shaking. Back in the car, it finally dawned on B what the woman had said. I just sent a message to corporate. Never, ever said stupid, ignorant things to people you don't know.

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