Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Yesterday we could see the smoke from the fires.  Today it's supposed to be clearer.  My friend's daughter was trying to find someplace smoke-free to have a small vacation.  We finally thought of San Luis Obispo.  So much of the state is smoky and hazardous.  And today in the paper I read that after the fire's out, carbon is still being emitted, so much so that our attempts at regulations and hybrids are going to be wiped out.  I also read that the fires since 1900 are 90% man made.  It is we who are burning up our planet.  I've been worried also about the trees:  the Mariposa Grove, the Merced Grove, the world's oldest Juniper near our cabin.  These are the animals' habitats, and the terror and devastation must have claimed so many animals.  We are all interconnected, but so few humans understand that connection or even get to feel it.  Forests and the seas are suffering.  Listen.