Today I wore flip-flops.
This may not seem blog-worthy, but it's December!
Shouldn't there be snow on the Nebraska landscape? Shouldn't it be so bitterly crisp that I need more than my fleece jacket to keep warm?
I'm not sure what the correct answers to that question are, but I'd like to defer to Al Gore instead.
After walking around sweaty today because I was dressed too appropriately for the winter season - with a scarf, turtleneck, and heavy jacket - I have to agree that there is a lot of credence to global warming.
Never in my lifetime, which, yes, only spans 25 years, have I been so puzzled by the weather.
If you too have had your Christmas spirits dampened by winter rains instead of winter flurries, then I recommend Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth." Before some of you naysayers embark on rolling your eyes at the mention of Al Gore's name, consider it a non-partisan issue. The repercussions of a scornful environment will not someday discriminate on the basis of what you consider yourself come election-time.
It is important, though, I think, to ask ourselves whether there is merit to all of this global warming hoopla. And more than that, we need to ask our policy makers what they are doing to look into the possibility.
So, as young Natives - doomed twice to the stereotype that we just don't vote both by stats on our age and race - let's do more than join cutesy-named Facebook groups, like the one that says "global warming is proof that God loves us and wants us to be tan." Let's make sure we look into these issues now so that come election time ‘08, no matter on which side of the political spectrum you think you may fall, you are informed and make your voice heard.
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