Tom Madden
Chairman & CEO at TransMedia Group
Published Mar 18, 2024
I received this delicious comment to my piece yesterday about the place where my dad fiddled, and I grew up not far from the blue properties in Monopoly, Boardwalk and Park Place, in what was once known as “The World’s Playground,” Atlantic City, NJ., which today is threatened by rising sea level.
The piece titled: Oh no! Planetary Lifeguard, help! My Atlantic City’s Sinking! Resort Called One of East Coast’s (ugh) Disappearing Cities, evoked or provoked this comment from Sally Tally:
For millions of years the earth has changed. It will change forever. We know some of the continents were attached at some time. Seashells in the desert is further proof. Just sit back and enjoy the change.
Not the most patient guy in the world, I responded.
Wise comment. Thank you for such far-sighted seashell wisdom but each of us only has so many years on this planet and floods, fires and hurricanes are no fun for us who are living in the present.
We don’t have all the time in the world to spend running from one disaster after another that climate change is causing globally, which is why I want Planetary Lifeguard™ to blow the whistle at climate change.
Who is Planetary Lifeguard?
I created the figure to sound the alarm just like Rosie the Riveter, Uncle Sam and Smoky the Bear did to deal with or quell other past crises in our cultural history.
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