Jason upset about Grandfather's House

Dear Dr. Waug,

I am really upset! My name is Jason, and I heard that instead of living in my
Grandfather’s house in Malibu, I’m going to grow up and live in Sacramento! Boy, the Great Do-Nothing Generation is really disrespecting us WAUGkids! Because of the rising ocean, the prediction is my Grandfather’s house will fall off the cliff and disappear! My parents, who have not been born yet, will have to move away from the ocean. Man, I was dreaming of all the good times, beach parties, and stuff, and now the scientists predict California will get the worst ***** job of all. What’s wrong with your generation? Are they all idiots?

Jason, upset in the future in Sacramento.

Dear Jason destined for Sacramento,
I hate to see you so upset, and you aren’t even alive yet! Yes, it looks bad for your grandfather’s house with the great view. Are those of us alive right now doing enough to stop you from living in Sacramento? Not yet. I hate to tell you, but instead of reversing things and creating cleaner air and less climate change, all we can talk about at this time is slowing down the speed of the destruction which has already begun. I have not seen any proposals that propose cleaning up the greenhouse gases, only proposals about continuing as we are doing now, but slowing down the growth of the gases. They will continue to tip the balance of nature father and father toward disaster, but will put the worst disasters off for a decade or two, or even a century, but things don’t look too good, and nobody has suggested a way to really fix things and restore what we had in 1900 or even 1950, or 2000. I’m posting your letter on my blog, hoping a lot of “small” people like me will see it and do something, almost anything, to stop the climate change problem.

Your friend in the GDNG,
Dr. Waug