“The clock always ticks. There are times you don’t hear it and there are times that you do.”  ~American author David Levithan

When I first headed down this journalism path, my intent was to gather fodder for my writing by visiting inspiring places and people.  As I began researching locations, I uncovered the horror of how far global warming has progressed and how intensely people and the planet are suffering the effects. Many of the places on my list are disappearing before my eyes!

My wandering has taken on a different urgency. Now I travel to expose climate change around the globe. I search out what has been successful to rescue people in climate peril, and I uncover ways we and our governments can mitigate the worst consequences.

The degree to which people are suffering from human caused climate disruption will surprise you! Read my stories and feel something! See the beauty we are losing. Realize this is in your own back yard, and you too are responsible. Panic! We cannot avoid what has already been set into motion, but we can dig in our heels, stop putting CO2 into the atmosphere, and start to cool our beautiful planet Earth back down again.

Can you hear the clock ticking?

Martha Branson

 

It’s Martha’s ability to connect with all kinds of people that makes her writing distinctive. She’s an artist, a journalist and a motorcycle enthusiast. A professional Interior Designer and business owner, she’s been a runner, a hang glider and an amateur horse jumper, a homeschool teacher, costume designer, children’s theater producer, and church elder. Martha grew up in Piedmont North Carolina and has made her home in Southern California for the last 15 years. She raised three children whose careers are as an artisan bread baker and business owner, a helicopter pilot, and an English professor. When not researching climate change and traveling the world she makes a formidable Jenga opponent! ~ Rich Wood, Author