Benny, don't be such a drama queen. Geez!
Let me remind you what has happened around me in the last few years.
A few hundred kilometres north of where I sit, the all-time temperature record over Canada's 150+ years of existence was broken, well, not broken, but smashed by over 5C. During that heat wave a nearby town burnt down and over 600 BCers, mostly elderly, died from the heat. If it was for friends checking on me I might have joined the casualties, as I hadn't realized how age had impaired my ability to detect if I was overheating.
Then there was the atmospheric river that broken all the precip records and did so much damage a few years ago that we are still repairing the damage 2 1/2 years later.
Last year BC almost doubled the previous record for wildfire damage, and with the ongoing droughts there is a good chance we might beat that this year. And I will remind that that being exposed to smoke is very dangerous for me, as for many others with health issues.
Then there was the unprecedented frost that wiped out my garden in January, killing most everything that I have been growing through the winter for decades. And through the spring ,as I have been meeting the farmers who provide much of the vegetables and almost all of the fruit I eat, I learn how most of their crops have been devastated by that same cold snap -- it dropped over 30C in hours in the Interior -- with losses like 99% of the grapes and much of the stonefruit like cherries and peaches. I have known these farmers for many years, so it is awful to see what they are going through. I fear some of them might go bankrupt and lose everything.
And yet I manage to remain positive and optimistic amidst all this, and the only problems I have sleeping at night are caused by pain and discomfort, not anxiety.
Stick to your day job, Benny, you are no psychologist.
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