Is it possible it is going to all get together now and produce sense? The relentless sweltering summer heat, heavy on 2 / 3 of the nation. The towns ravaged by monster tornadoes. The winters with extraordinary snow that gets to be raging runoffs; the droughts and floods that affect our food production. Is there a one that can seriously deny climatic change? Seriously, I want a listing. If so, I don't believe they paid attention since a child or possibly they're repressing their memories, because it's certainly not how I remember it.
If the science doesn't cause you to be believe surely the chaos is convincing. And even if all one has time for is work and sleep, regarding the price of food, energy, insurance, increasing? That's a reality. The 2 " in 30-minute rainstorms, which we've got had locally, produce lightening and wind that burns down houses and takes down our most stately shade trees. Does it seem sensible when the tree visits the car or house, or should there be no longer shade to permit the children to stay in the yard and they also receive third degree burns on the playground slide? I don't do not forget that. The insect infected, downed and logged trees not absorb the carbon while they did, but they can be just trees and you will crank up mid-air conditioning and turn into inside. This is America why is this so? Your individual rights come in the constitution and also God which includes comfort.
The shattering fact personally is that folks have no desire for what makes sense and no involvement in the truth; or should I say so the majority are so cock-sure they know reality. This is truth quite outside of education or investigation and quite often wrapped up inside 'money equals brains' mentality. This view was beautifully illustrated by among my daughter's college friends within his summation of his side of your political discussion with'.'if you're so smart, why shouldn't you be rich'?
There is a whole generation of entitled individuals, fattened on jobs that earned a lot of cash despite no knowledge and little effort, aside from socialibility and staying in the right place with the right time, Despite producing nothing and consuming with abandon these people usually are not contrite, they may be bitter. They believe the masai have a right for the continuation of the money, a straight away to spend and utilize resources plus they 'conger up' a political view that supports their directly to easy money, no matter the snow globe economy fantasy that has been created for it that occurs, and no matter what it means in the future. They believe the economy can and must expand forever.
Cars will be more important versus the highways they drive on, and houses will be more important as opposed to neighborhoods they stand it. Taxes represent to people an effort to take 'hard' earned money, they being apparently uneducated to where roads and schools and also the virtual order in their civilization originates from. Lack of taxes cracks the veneer of prosperity as visibly as rust and pot holes, in addition to being invisibly as children who can't or won't read, or make arithmetic calculations much less know or vote their interests. It's a license. not an education should be a realtor or possibly a car salesman.
A selfish, individual over society, disguised as individual over government, attitude can certainly make the world a hard, polluted and unholy destination to live.
And that's essentially where we're also. Is it possible for this to sound right?
The car- ahh- the auto. The put the poor can look middle class along with the middle class can be displayed wealthy. You can drive your financial statement across town. The car would be the coarse, indelible meaning of status. Small cars are for first time immigrants or teenage drivers or socialists. Cars are deemed to want comfort without exceptions. They must handle of the mountain passes and spare your children the embarrassment of aging. For these cars we have now the straight away to cheap gas. No one can make us leave our cars and walk.
Our public lands aren't nearly experiencing untrammeled beauty and wildlife the lands need to be open to the internal combustion contrivance available. Owning and driving a motor vehicle, a snowmobile, a4- wheeler a jet ski, is incorporated in the bill of rights. Somewhere missing would be the bill of responsibilities. Also missing is an fascination with what is sensible, sustainable. I guess the question for the masters with the universe the 2% who've corralled 60% of all of the money is. If you're so rich, why shouldn't you be smart?
What is missing is an excellent sports analogy to describe the material inequity. It's as with the middle of the football game, , they switched to hockey. Not only do you lack skates there isn't any room for you personally on the team. The game went from 11 in order to six players. Only the 6 players are financed with hockey rink and gear to the game And the action is beyond town. You're odd man out.
But although rich were smart enough to rig the sport to gain the treasure, they've fowled the nest on their own as well as us and this also is everyone's most immediate problem. You can't eat, drink or breath money. Some of that ozone that drifts around Pinedale Wyoming may just make it to Dick Cheney's house in Jackson. The banker with all the home in La Jolla may be bombarded with radiation from Fukishima and it has bought a house which is to be underwater, literally, in manufactured years. He can relocate to Florida but his seafood will likely be contaminated with oil and dispersants. It's too hot being outside so from his air-conditioned family room he can watch dead baby dolphins wash up for the beach. Oil and gas pipelines, scoured by river debris, break and ruin the fly fishing for your natural gas 'wild-catter' that fought every proposed climate, water and pipe line regulation, and flaunted the others, for making his fortune.
It reminds me in the Ingmar Bergman film, 'The Seventh Seal', which takes place in Europe throughout the plague. In a shot to prevent the Black Death the nobility of Europe retreat to barricade themselves within their castles. The rats along with their fleas were ready and looking forward to them. Bergman's survivors were roaming gypsies that stop the plague since they can be mobile and free'but obviously, equally ignorant with the cause with the death because the nobles.
Ignorance, community . has it's bliss, gets one nowhere within our world. The meek may yet inherit planet earth, however they may not need to. The mainstream media, shows us people starving in Somalia, shows us the tornados, the oil spills, the floods, the nuclear power plant meltdowns, although not the people still in tents or trailers, not time frame shrimp catches it shows the catastrophe, however, not the results. Sometimes the outcomes are not even measured like Fukishima. Have we have you ever heard about the radiation that drifted with all the jet stream straight to your West coast then on for being caught by my own, personal west side in the Rockies; radiation that insinuates itself into every living thing. Sometimes the image just fades from view like Joplin or Detroit or New Orleans or Minot. There are no patterns here it suggests; just a silly streak of bad luck; without the need of effect, no cause; No climate change, nor absence of that' anti-capitalist regulation'. No recognition of corporate power over environmental laws that might safe guard the resources we must live; no realizing that 'if you poison our planet the planet earth will poison you'. Will a tree must drop with your head for this to 'hit home'?
All of us must come to grips with this excessive, entitled consumption; The most complete blinders to the are within the Eastern seaboard, This area was fortunate to possess its oil and gas and coal extracted west with the Mississippi, to the most part, until the gas main discovery within an area supplying the normal water to New York City. It has become exciting to discover the extraction method know as fracking generate a blip around the environmental radar. Otherwise the catastrophes of flood, or drought or tornado or hurricane are away from sight and soon beyond mind until they may be on your head. Hopefully the simple fact of local aging nuclear power plants, with on-site waste storage, are pause for thought after Fukishima along with the floods in Missouri I'm sure the East Coast's time arrive as there are ultimately no winners in the climatic change lottery.
I am particularly thinking about one fantasy that we've been living alongside, and wishing with all of our heart were true. Cheap clean energy. There isn't any such thing it doesn't matter how many ads the thing is on TV. There is clean energy, yet it is not cheap. Wind and solar require capital investment at the start. Our government familiar with invest in such a check here thing, and to being crippled by politics, we're crippled by war debt and our stupid decision to bail out rich folks. There is affordable[ish] energy is cheap on the pump, in comparison towards the rest of the entire world. This we've got subsidized through regulations, cheap leases, nonexistent environmental regulation; it can be becoming expensive due to its effect on coffee but, maddeningly, there isn't any mental connection to 'externalized' costs were beginning to spend the money for inability might cost us our very lives. The gas industry will offer a less carbon emitting fuel, but producers refuse to create any efforts to cut back it's carbon footprint getting hired OUT on the ground. It flares and fracks when needed, allowing methane and open pits of benzene along with volatile organic compounds to off-gas into the oxygen. A drilling site can be an ugly, smelly dangerous place. They don't call the staff rough necks for nothing. And trust me we will live to regret the a lot of gallons of water that has become rendered unusable by used in drilling. Don't expect anything sensible in the extraction industry, or politicians. I could continue on but why bother Get ready for more chaos.
When a tree falls inside forest and there's no one there to listen to it, does it generate a sound?
When a tree falls on the head, does anybody wonder why?
Barb Coddington 203 3rd st Glenwood Spgs. Co 81601 970-0-945-9462