Lots of Republican Governors making disaster declarations recently. Our daily headlines are now a steady stream of one climate disaster after another.

And yet, we'll insist on our meat. Our air travel. Our purchase of whatever pleases us. We throw the future away every day with our choices.

Record flooding inundates northwest Iowa, prompts evacuations, isolates one city

"I can tell you that the devastation is severe and it's widespread," Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said at a news conference Sunday afternoon in Des Moines.