Getting ready for tomorrow’s concert, we’re having to keep an eye on the weather: more significant rainfall is expected. It’s unlikely to cause a big problem in Warren if it comes at the predicted rates and amounts, but there were hard to predict, major local variations in the recent rains, so anything is possible.
Meanwhile I was unable to practice the last two days because I felt so under the weather. I thought it was literally that: the air quality here was in the low-mid 100’s—the orange zone, “unhealthy for some groups”—this time courtesy of British Columbia fires instead of Quebec. But when I took a turn for the worse I got myself checked out and found out I have anaplasmosis, a tick-borne disease whose recent prevalence in this area is also a result of climate change. Eminently treatable, especially when caught early, so no tragedy, certainly not comparable to the recent catastrophic flood damages, to say nothing of the impending collapse of major agricultural and fresh water systems.
But again, the “calling attention to the climate emergency” part of my project seems increasingly quaint.
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