If that 64% of Americans who claim to be worried a great deal or a fair amount about climate change were actually serious, we wouldn't be seeing massive increases in miles driven, both total and per capita, over the past four years. Transportation is the largest driver (sorry) of climate change in the PNW, and the second largest in the nation after power plants.

As always, talk is cheap and easy. Actions take a bit of effort. On the bright side, if people would leave their cars parked a bit to walk and cycle, they will reap tremendous health rewards over time and public health will also win, since those nasty particulates from tailpipes are huge drivers of non-infectious disease processes.

Meanwhile, the Eugene Airport is experiencing record boardings. I guess locally we just don't take climate change seriously at all. Our loss of 30% of our cycling community from 2009-15 also attests to that. Green Eugene? More like Brown Town.