#2424 "Remembrance Day Singleton Sunset"

Remembrance Day is a special day for me. I think back and try to imagine what it must have been like to see young people head off heroically to a foreign land to try to do what was right. This was the sunset on November 11th, 2020 and it might have been the red of Remembrance Day poppies for a reason. The distinctive Langmuir streaks were calm and reflected the bright yellow of the lower horizon. Otherwise the rippled surface of Singleton picked up the higher, poppy red clouds in their reflection. These colours did not last long. Singleton was under the anticyclonic companion of the approaching warm conveyor belt. 

The soldiers and veterans that I was remembering have been called the greatest generation and from where I stand and remember, I think they were. Our parents were shaped by the Great Depression and fought the Second World War and survived to built a distinct society. 

My Baby Boomer generation cannot even deal with the science of climate change, protecting endangered species or ensuring that clean water is available to everyone. Conservation authorities are our scientific defense for nature of which humans are just a part. The politicians are gutting these conservation efforts in support of developers. The new climate will bring severe precipitation events separated by extended droughts and we need to act much faster and not step backward as I see in the news. Society has become entitled, greedy and maybe more corrupt as everyone seems to want more, more and then some more. Politicians as leaders seem to be a thing of the past. Conservatives apparently need to disavow climate science to be selected to run as a candidate. The Liberals seem to specialize in back-room deals and corruption and there are way too many examples of this behaviour. Pipelines crossing fragile environments are supported while green technologies languish. You might imagine who I vote for but my pick has not been elected yet. The major political parties do not seem to represent what our soldiers and veterans fought for. 

I had better get back to painting... positive thoughts can be regained by surrounding oneself by nature, art and science. 

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