It's not a slow start at this moment. There are 4 depressions at once in the Atlantic.

I grew up emmeshed in nature from the Catskills to Rockey mountains, from the plains to the mighty rivers, from ancient sites to NYC. Lakes that had 6 foot pike fish are now sterile from acid rain. I have seen nuclear waste stored adjacent to playgrounds, secret pollution pipes and hazardous waste dumps bigger than most villages a few football fields away from Niagara Falls. I have seen people bleed from their mouth and ears from their brief exposure to hazardous material. I know what evils are now hatching from the bottom of the sea we thought we could hide.

Smiles on faces of children are changing to kids with dead or angry eyes. Perhaps I see things from an entirely different point of view but I don't see ruins, olde churches and palace sightseeing destinations as the wonders of Earth. I see injustice and pain, hunger and poverty. Be that due to empathy or pessimism I am not sure. Profound pathos and poverty are coming in my mind's eye as half the world will eventually become immigrants at the gunpoint of climate change.

These things I have seen do not inspire hope but hope for even a change too late is better than none at all.