What’s Trending: A Better World Is Possible

0:00It is time for what's trending made possible by locally owned dynamic electric quality workmanship and outstanding service for all your home and commercial electrical needs. Find them online at dynamic-electric.com. Victor Lewis is with us as always. Good morning. How are you? Pretty good. Surviving. Making it through. Good. Today, I want to take a second to talk about how a better world is indeed possible, sort of a dovetail from the last time we spoke, because the world government's direct response to address the human damage to the ozone layer is a well-known, smashing, resounding success. Yes. It's one of the few mission accomplished that we have been allowed in our lifetimes here. It was demonstrated that by directly addressing the human impact on climate, it is entirely feasible to reverse and repair extensive damage to sophisticated, atmospheric systems, literally things that turn above our heads and make our lives possible. The Montreal Protocol, a very cool name. Adopted in 1987 to phase out the chlorofluorocarbons that were putting a hole in the ozone layer.

1:03Luckily, we danced you did on chlorofluorocarbons. Yeah, I had to do that. That's what it sat around. It literally worked exactly as we hoped, exactly as we projected. We said we had to do something. It was non-negotiable. We did it. And then, would you look at that? Scientists are predicting the ozone layer is going to recover to the health it had in 1980 by about 2040 in the mid latitudes and tropics over the Arctic by 2045 and over Antarctica by 2066, which is still a pretty long time frame, but it is repair. It is recovery. It is happening. Progress is continuing and we are materially better off in the ozone layer now than we were before we instituted these sweeping changes because a better world is possible. You just have to do it. The thing. Yeah. You just have to do it. You just have to do the thing. Don't let anybody tell you you can't do it or it isn't possible or the incremental improvement starts happening after you start. Okay. I am going to, I'm going to piggyback off of that and say a thing that's been on my mind

2:07and bothering me for a while, which is number one, you are exactly right. A better world is possible. It takes a lot of work. It's slow work. But if we all get out and do the work, we can make the world a better place. We need to feel in order to get off the couch and get out there in order to be willing to do that. People need to feel hope, right? People need to feel that a better world is actually possible. And I think the biggest problem that we have in this world right now is that, and correct me if I'm wrong about this, I'm going to say 40. There are very few people in this country under 40 right now who seriously believe that they have a future, who seriously like have hope. And we need people in positions of prominence, in positions of authority to be doing a lot of work right now to get out there and talk to people and instill hope in people again,

3:13like make people feel like if we get out there and do the work, a better world is actually possible. And that also means, and since there's a midterm rolling around, we need to be putting people in positions of power who are capable of doing that. Who are capable who are willing? Because there's only so much water you can carry by you got to get off the couch, you got to put in the work, you got to do the thing when we're talking specifically about the ozone layer and banning chlorofluorocarbons, there was no one in the street saying, I love CFCs and I need them forever. Yeah. That's not really a thing. It was not an everyday citizen concern until it became, I've learned about the hole in the ozone layer. I'm worried about it. And I would really like for things to be different. Let's make it different. Let's make it different. Let's make it different. That stopped being a request and started being a demand. We can should and will demand more of the people who undergird our lives. A reminder that we can and should have hope and we can and should be using that to get out there and try to make the world a better place. Straight up, dude.