The Market Is Open!

ALFN Members,

What a deluge! The sun is starting to shine and the market is open with cheery products. Welcome the sun to evaporate your pooled, stagnant thoughts and mildewed emotions; drive away overcast action!

This 1,000 year rain event that hit parts of Louisiana remind us not only over the relentless forces that drive our planet, but also remind us of the new normal as our climate begins to shift into new patterns. Certain ecological theories dealing with stability and chaos view our climate systems like a marble in a bowl. There are always fluctuations, but the system eventually balances itself. A marble gets pushed up the wall of the bowl, but when the pushing forces stops, the marble falls back into the settled state at the bottom of the bowl. However, the driving forces of greenhouse gases loading the atmosphere continue to push the marble up the wall of the bowl. Eventually, the marble will fall out of the system (bowl) and find a new normal. Imagine there is an unknown bowl outside the current bowl that lives are stabilized within. As the climate is pushed into extreme temperatures, it becomes less likely for it to fall back into the stable system we experience on an annual basis. Eventually, we will crest the limits of normal and fall into a new stable system…one we have never experienced as a civilization. Many scientists argue we have already crested the ridge and now the earth will be driven into a new normal over the next millennia. Human economies and cultures will change with the change of climate. It is our task to begin building the foundation for a humanity that lives with the world, not against it.

In the end, we shouldn’t be driven to depression because of the floods and rains, but learn to live with the floods and rains. Maybe I need to re-watch Water World for insight:)

Have a great week!

Kyle Holton
Program & Market Manager