High point of today was going to see my cousin Dr. Jon Patz speak at UVM  on the Global warming.  It was a great talk.. He didn’t give  one of those doom and gloom global warming talks.. instead he talked about how the health savings of avoiding global warming more than offset the costs of the mitigations required to control it.. It was a compelling argument !

 

Jon did have some scary charts.. like this best case/worst case on warming.. right now we’re on track for the one on the right !

 

and a chart showing relative carbon emissions vs mortality rates due to climate related problmes

 

Jon talked about his times meeting the Dali Lama..

 

and the carbon impact of diet !

 

eating bugs is an option !

 

or maybe worms !

I was so proud to be there .. here we are with Jon and Jean.. right after, we took them to their plane

 

ok.. 1AM.. and just finishing up work..

time to sleep !!!

-me