The first Earth Day occurred 51 years ago, April 22nd. Being a young naïve college student at the time I assumed that we would solve the problems in a year or two. Unfortunately we haven’t and it has only gotten worse. The impacts of climate change have a severe affect on our local area. Increased threat of fires, high winds, drought and dwindling snow packs. As an example, over the past 140 years the Sierra Nevada snowpack average has been 407” of snowfall, whereas in the past 10 years the average has been 313”. It is time to act and educate with gusto. This is the determining decade. We are at the point of no return and we must act now.
