When we’re sick:

We seek for treatment.

We turn to medication.

We just don’t succumb to illness without doing something.

We work not just for relief but for cure.

It’s our nature.

But what happens to that nature when this planet Earth is the one ailing?

Carbon dioxide is at four-hundred twenty-two parts per million.

It’s the highest since the last seven decades.

The global temperature is at the hottest on record.

And methane is no different.

About ninety-percent of global warming is happening in the ocean

as the planet is largely water.

Antarctica is melting its ice mass 

at an average rate of one-hundred-fifty billion tons per year,

causing the sea level to rapidly rise. 

These anomalies are happening—unprecedented—

Over the two-thousand five-hundred plus years.

Mother Earth is sick. 

Aren’t her vital signs enough to get our attention?

Does she have to literally burn before we do something?

How many out of eight billion people are genuinely concerned?

The saddest part, there are among us who don’t believe that it is happening.

It’s an insult to the science community and to those who are doing something.

Resource:

2024. Climate/Vital Signs. NASA

climate.nasa.gov/vital signs