Is it possible it can all add up now and produce sense? The relentless sweltering summer heat, heavy on 60 % of the nation. The towns ravaged by monster tornadoes. The winters with extraordinary snow that becomes raging runoffs; the droughts and floods that affect our food production. Is there a one who can seriously deny global warming? Seriously, I want an email list. If so, I don't believe they paid attention during a vacation or possibly these are repressing their memories, since it is certainly not how I remember it.
If the science doesn't allow you to believe surely the chaos is convincing. And even if all an individual has time for is work and sleep, regarding the price of food, energy, insurance, increasing? That's a reality. The two inches in 30-minute rainstorms, which we now have 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 hits the car or house, or if you find no longer shade to permit the children to be the yard and so they receive third degree burns in the playground slide? I don't do not forget that. The insect infected, downed and logged trees don't absorb the carbon because they did, but these are just trees and you will crank up air conditioning and grow inside. This is America why not? Your individual rights come in the constitution by God that also includes comfort.
The shattering fact in my opinion is that folk have no fascination with what makes sense and no fascination with the truth; or should I say so lots of people are so cock-sure they know the simple truth. This is truth quite outside of education or investigation and often wrapped up from the 'money equals brains' mentality. This view was beautifully illustrated by among my daughter's college friends in the summation of his side of the 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 lots of money despite no knowledge and little effort, apart from socialibility and going to the right place in the right time, Despite producing nothing and consuming with abandon these people usually are not contrite, they may be bitter. They believe there is a right towards the continuation in this money, a directly to spend and rehearse resources and they also 'conger up' a political view that supports their to certainly easy money, no matter the snow globe economy fantasy that has been created for it to occur, and it doesn't matter what it means for future years. They believe the economy can and really should expand forever.
Cars will be more important versus the highways they drive on, and houses are definitely more important compared to the neighborhoods they stay at home. Taxes represent about bat roosting people an effort to take 'hard' earned money, they being apparently uneducated to where roads and schools as well as the virtual order of the civilization derives from. Lack of taxes cracks the veneer of prosperity as visibly as rust and pot holes, so that as invisibly as children who can't or won't read, or make arithmetic calculations aside from know or vote their interests. It's a license. not an education should be a realtor or perhaps a car salesman.
A selfish, individual over society, disguised as individual over government, attitude could make the world a hard, polluted and unholy spot to live.
And that's essentially where we're also. Is it possible because of it to be the better choice?
The car- ahh- the auto. The put the poor can be shown middle class and also the middle class can seem wealthy. You can drive your financial statement across town. The car may be the coarse, indelible meaning of status. Small cars are for first time immigrants or teenage drivers or socialists. Cars are deemed to wish comfort at any cost. They must handle of the mountain passes and spare your kids the embarrassment of aging. For these cars we've got the to cheap gas. No one can make us leave our cars and walk.
Our public lands aren't almost experiencing untrammeled beauty and wildlife the lands need to be open to the internal combustion contrivance around the world. Owning and the worry, a snowmobile, a4- wheeler a jet ski, influences bill of rights. Somewhere missing could be the bill of responsibilities. Also missing is an desire for what is sensible, sustainable. I guess the question towards the masters in 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 spell out the material inequity. It's similar to the middle of your football game, , they switched to hockey. Not only do you lack skates there's no room available for you on the team. The game went from 11 to players. Only the 6 players are financed with hockey rink and gear to the game And the action is from town. You're odd man out.
But although rich were smart enough to rig the sport to gain the treasure, they've already fowled the nest by themselves as well as us which is everyone's most immediate problem. You can't eat, drink or breath money. Some of that ozone that drifts around Pinedale Wyoming might just make it to Dick Cheney's house in Jackson. The banker while using home in La Jolla has become bombarded with radiation from Fukishima and has now bought a house that is to be underwater, literally, in very few years. He can relocate to Florida but his seafood will probably be contaminated with oil and dispersants. It's too hot to become 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 with the natural gas 'wild-catter' that fought every proposed climate, water and pipe line regulation, and flaunted the remainder, to produce his fortune.
It reminds me in the Ingmar Bergman film, 'The Seventh Seal', which takes place in Europe in the plague. In a go to stop the Black Death the nobility of Europe retreat to barricade themselves inside their castles. The rats in addition to their fleas were ready and awaiting them. Bergman's survivors were roaming gypsies that prevent the plague when you are mobile and free'but certainly, just like ignorant in the cause in the death as being the nobles.
Ignorance, even though it has it's bliss, gets one nowhere in this world. The meek may yet inherit the world, 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, and not the people still in tents or trailers, not time frame shrimp catches it shows the catastrophe, yet not the results. Sometimes the final results are not even measured like Fukishima. Have we heard about the radiation that drifted together with the jet stream straight on the West coast after which on to become caught by my 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 unique streak of bad luck; without the need of effect, no cause; No wipeout of the earths, nor deficiency of that' anti-capitalist regulation'. No recognition of corporate management of environmental laws that may safe guard the resources we must live; no if you know 'if you poison planet earth the planet earth will poison you'. Will a tree must drop with your head correctly to 'hit home'?
All of us have to come to grips with the excessive, entitled consumption; The most complete blinders to the are about the Eastern seaboard, This area was fortunate to possess its oil and gas main and coal extracted west on the Mississippi, for that most part, until the gas main discovery in a area supplying the waters to New York City. It has become exciting to find out the extraction method know as fracking create a blip about the environmental radar. Otherwise the catastrophes of flood, or drought or tornado or hurricane are outside of sight and soon away from mind until these are 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 global warming lottery.
I am particularly enthusiastic about one fantasy that we now have been living alongside, and wishing with all of our heart were true. Cheap clean energy. There is not any such thing it doesn't matter how many ads the truth is on TV. There is clean energy, however it is not cheap. Wind and solar require capital investment at the start. Our government accustomed to invest in this type of thing, but additionally to being crippled by politics, we have been crippled by war debt and our stupid decision to bail out rich folks. There is affordable[ish] souped up that is cheap in the pump, in comparison for the rest of the entire world. This we have now subsidized through regulations and tax breaks, cheap leases, nonexistent environmental regulation; it really is becoming extremely expensive due to its effect on java prices but, maddeningly, there is absolutely no mental connection to 'externalized' costs we have been beginning to spend here the money for inability cost us our very lives. The gas main industry will offer a less carbon emitting fuel, but producers refuse to generate any efforts to relieve it's carbon footprint configuring it OUT on the ground. It flares and fracks anytime, allowing methane and open pits of benzene and also other volatile organic compounds to off-gas into mid-air. A drilling site can be an ugly, smelly dangerous place. They don't call the employees rough necks for nothing. And let's face it we will live to regret the numerous gallons of water that has become rendered unusable by utilization in drilling. Don't expect anything sensible on the extraction industry, or politicians. I could carry on but why bother Get ready for more chaos.
When a tree falls within the forest and there is absolutely no one there to know 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