The Upper Peninsula was always a safe place for Mr. Snowman who likes cold and snowy winters. For those of us who grew up making them we know the beauty of snow and how hot cocoa and rum cider become part of the culture. Global warming is impacting our region in new ways and we know we must change but many of us don't know how. I think investment in new technology and companies that are inventing that technology is important. Put our money where our mouth is! That would mean we invest with some type of purpose by stepping outside of our own self-interests.
You can read a solid article by Keith Matheny entitled Michigan winters, as generations have known them, may be coming to an end.
As a nation we will need to start thinking about stewardship of the land. We all seem to know the answers but we seem to get them wrong a lot. I guess we are a people driven by self interest and it is hard for people to see a bigger picture about a bigger world. We have opportunities to start building the technologies and be a national leader on sustainable and cost-effective methods of improving our planet.
As a nation are we able to rise to difficult occasions and build new things, new ideas, new people's, and new places? I guess we may need to wait until our leadership stops thinking about themselves; regardless of one's political background or philosophical vantage point.
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