Happy Earth Day 2025
Listen to this articleAs this world experiences great waves of negative change, devolving into a Karma filled with hate, fear and division, the Universe continues to move on and our Earth evolves as well, influenced by the waste and abuse of humankind.
Globally sea level rise is 0.21 inches — and the rate of sea level rise is increasing. The Earth is warming at an alarming rate of 2.0 °f per year. That seems too much, But I checked several sources and it is relatively the same. We should be very concerned. And it is official: 2024 is the warmest year on record.
Out in the Northern Pacific two large patches of human debris continue to grow. Known collectively as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the increased use of the oceans as garbage dumps is generating more and more concern about how the oceans — the Earth — is being harmed by the GPGP. Some groups are trying to develop practical ways to clean up the messes, but we, as a species — as a nation — are still pouring pollutants into our air, water and ground.
Billionaires send millionaires into space as tourists and call it progress. Yet, down here on Earth, they could pour many of their billions of dollars into fixing and saving this planet, including ending the effects of droughts, poverty and starvation, ending diseases that are curable with vaccines. The billionaires could do so much to help humankind with some of their billions — and still be billionaires — but they don’t. They hoard it.
Sadly, we now have a U.S. government that rejects science, rejects cleaning up our planet and rejects the facts. Not to mention every illegal action it has taken since January 20, 2025.
We can take a deep breath and carry on.
Earth Day — let’s do our little bits to save our corners of our great blue and green marble spinning in the great expanse we call space and find some peace.
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Click here to watch videos by a couple who are traveling around the Pacific Ocean on various boats shooting videos of their adventures. Every once in a while — or, more often than I care to see — they come across islands that do not have any human populations, and yet they find more trash on the beaches than I’ve seen anywhere else. Their videos are entertaining and informative.
Here is our Earth Day video with some great home-grown video of our planet.
Tim Forkes started as a writer on a small alternative newspaper in Milwaukee called the Crazy Shepherd. Writing about entertainment, he had the opportunity to speak with many people in show business, from the very famous to the people struggling to find an audience. In 1992 Tim moved to San Diego, CA and pursued other interests, but remained a freelance writer. Upon arrival in Southern California he was struck by how the elected government officials and business were so intertwined, far more so than he had witnessed in Wisconsin. His interest in entertainment began to wane and the business of politics took its place. He had always been interested in politics, his mother had been a Democratic Party official in Milwaukee, WI, so he sat down to dinner with many of Wisconsin’s greatest political names of the 20th Century: William Proxmire and Clem Zablocki chief among them. As a Marine Corps veteran, Tim has a great interest in veteran affairs, primarily as they relate to the men and women serving and their families. As far as Tim is concerned, the military-industrial complex has enough support. How the men and women who serve are treated is reprehensible, while in the military and especially once they become veterans. Tim would like to help change that.