#climate #change

You hear about it a lot: on the airwaves, in print, online, offline, onshore, offshore, in the fields, the streets, along the boulevards, in the boardrooms and the barns, land, sea, and air.  

Climate change.

It’s undeniable, both the talk and the reality. Indisputable. Incontrovertible.

But here on planet Harm climate change is precisely what’s needed. We need urgent, radical, sustainable climate change. We live in an atmosphere (a biosphere, if you will) of too much heat, too many decibels, and too much acid rain spewing from our mouths. They say, “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.” How about, “It’s not the heat, it’s the harm.” 

Things have gotten so steamy (in discourse, taste, and discord) you can hardly breathe. The harmony is killing us, quickly or slowly. Please note that on Harm the word “harmony” has an etymology that differs from the one Earthlings embrace. For us, harmony comes from “harm”; from there, we share the same etymological lineage as Earthlings: Old English hearm "hurt, pain; evil, grief; insult," from Proto-Germanic harmaz, taken from Old Saxon harm and Old Norse harmr "grief, sorrow”; hearkening back to Old Frisian herm "insult; pain," Old High German harm, German harm "grief, sorrow, harm”; and so on. You get the point.)

It will surprise no resident of this planet that we have a dangerous level of toxic constituents of concern (COCs); harmful doses of pollutants; a cornucopia of contaminants, including contaminants of emerging concern (CECs). We find these silent killers in our foodweb, our worldwide web, our breatheweb, drinkweb, and most tellingly in our speechweb.

We daily ingest a menu of verbal criteria air pollutants, degrading both our ambient air and indoor air quality (IAQ). It’s a menu we can’t select from column A and column B. No, we are forced to eat the whole smorgasbord of scathing vitriol. Harm’s measurable air emissions emanate from heat and power generation, lies, deceptions, half-truths, dissemblings, distortions, and double dealing. The particulate matter dancing in the air we breathe matters. Particulate matter matters (PMM).

We suffer suffocation by syllables; no one can get a word in edgewise here.

What to do?

It’s not too late. almost, but not yet.

Naturally, source control is the most efficient and cost-effective means of remediation.

Here are other suggested interventions for atmospheric remediation, for salutary and salubrious climate control:

• mechanical collectors: AI-powered robotic devices that capture seemingly invisible harm-packed and potent dialogue bubbles (similar to the kind seen in comic strips and graphic novels)

• dispersion scrubbers: mega-fans that scatter the syllables into micro-phonemes (Note: the harm-laden words or actions become subdetectable, which many experts assert makes them more dangerous.)

• fabric filters: masks that muffle utterances into indecipherable gibberish (The inventors apologize for not having these available while Rush Limbaugh was scorching the airwaves.)

• electrostatic precipitators: devices that generate an avalanche of static so as to negate negative discourse

• combustion systems (thermal oxidizers): harmful words and actions are blown up at the point of origin

• condensers: harmative events or words are squashed like cockroaches

• absorbers/adsorbers: AI-choreographed and orchestrated WiFi devices that suck harmifacts from the atmosphere and marry them to each other, internally or surficially, respectively

• biological degradation: bioremediation processes whereby Nature takes its toll, breaks harm down, gets its revenge, or balances its karma

• selective catalytic reduction (SCR): spiritually lowers the temperature or renders impotent  harm-drenched discourse or detrimental action

• genetic retro engineering: attempts to nullify negative impacts Harmlings are prone to; also known as Edenic edification (experimental beta version in progress; volunteers sought for clinical trials)