Is it possible it's going to all get together now making sense? The relentless sweltering summer heat, heavy on 66 % of the nation. The towns ravaged by monster tornadoes. The winters with extraordinary snow that gets 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 subscriber base. If so, I don't believe they paid attention as a kid or possibly they're repressing their memories, which is certainly not just how I remember it.
If the science doesn't allow you to be believe surely the chaos is convincing. And even if all you have time for is work and sleep, have you detected the price of food, energy, insurance, getting larger? That's a reality. The 2 " in 30-minute rainstorms, which we have now had locally, produce lightening and wind that burns down houses and takes down our most stately shade trees. Does it sound right when the tree hits the car or house, or if you have no longer shade to allow for the children to remain 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 no more absorb the carbon while they did, but they can be just trees and you will crank up mid-air conditioning and also be inside. This is America why is this so? Your individual rights have been in the constitution through God which includes comfort.
The shattering fact personally is that everyone has no involvement in what makes sense and no curiosity about the truth; or should I say so the majority are so cock-sure they know the facts. This is truth quite separate from education or investigation and often wrapped up inside the 'money equals brains' mentality. This view was beautifully illustrated by considered one of my daughter's college friends within his summation of his side of the political discussion with'.'if you're so smart, why can'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 coming to the right place in the right time, Despite producing nothing and consuming with abandon these people will not be contrite, they can be bitter. They believe the masai have a right on the continuation on this money, a to certainly spend and rehearse resources and so they 'conger up' a political view that supports their to easy money, whatever the snow globe economy fantasy that had been created for it that occurs, and whatever it means for future years. They believe the economy can and must expand forever.
Cars will be more important compared to the highways they drive on, and houses tend to be more important compared to neighborhoods they stay at home. Taxes represent to the telltale people a shot to take 'hard' earned money, they being apparently uneducated to where roads and schools as well as the virtual order with their civilization arises 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 must be a realtor or maybe a car salesman.
A selfish, individual over society, disguised as individual over government, attitude can make the world a challenging, polluted and unholy destination to live.
And that's essentially where we have been. Is it possible for this to add up?
The car- ahh- your vehicle. The put the poor can look middle class and also the middle class can seem wealthy. You can drive your financial statement outside. The car could be the coarse, indelible meaning of status. Small cars are for first time immigrants or teenage drivers or socialists. Cars are deemed to desire comfort without exceptions. They must handle of the mountain passes and spare your kids the embarrassment old. For these cars we now have the straight away to cheap gas. No one can make us get rid of our cars and walk.
Our public lands aren't nearly experiencing untrammeled beauty and wildlife the lands should also be open to the internal combustion contrivance around the world. Owning and the worry, a snowmobile, a4- wheeler a jet ski, is with the bill of rights. Somewhere missing could be the bill of responsibilities. Also missing is an involvement in what is sensible, sustainable. I guess the question to your masters from the universe the 2% who've corralled 60% with all the different money is. If you're so rich, why can't you be smart?
What is missing is a superb sports analogy to describe the material inequity. It's similar to the middle of any football game, , they switched to hockey. Not only do you lack skates there isn't a room available for you 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 from town. You're odd man out.
But the rich were smart enough to rig the action to gain the treasure, they've got fowled the nest for their own reasons as well as us and also this 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 with all the home in La Jolla continues to be bombarded with radiation from Fukishima and has now bought a house that'll be underwater, literally, in made years. He can turn to Florida but his seafood is going to 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, for making his fortune.
It reminds me in the Ingmar Bergman film, 'The Seventh Seal', that can place in Europe through the plague. In a shot to steer clear of the Black Death the nobility of Europe retreat to barricade themselves of their castles. The rats along with their fleas were ready and awaiting them. Bergman's survivors were roaming gypsies that stop the plague because they are mobile and free'but naturally, equally ignorant from the cause from the death because the nobles.
Ignorance, eventhough it has it's bliss, gets one nowhere inside our world. The meek may yet inherit the planet earth, nonetheless they may not wish to. The mainstream media, shows us people starving in Somalia, shows us the tornados, the oil spills, the floods, the nuclear power plant meltdowns, yet not the people still in tents or trailers, not time frame shrimp catches it shows the catastrophe, and not the results. Sometimes the outcome are not even measured like Fukishima. Have we have you ever heard about the radiation that drifted while using jet stream straight to your West coast after which on to become caught by my west side in the Rockies; radiation that insinuates itself into every living thing. Sometimes the photo just fades from view like Joplin or Detroit or New Orleans or Minot. There are no patterns here it suggests; just a rare streak of bad luck; without any effect, no cause; No wipeout of the earths, nor not enough that' anti-capitalist regulation'. No recognition of corporate power over environmental laws that can safe guard the resources we should instead live; no realizing that 'if you poison the planet earth the world will poison you'. Will a tree need to drop on your own head because of it to 'hit home'?
All of us should come to grips with this excessive, entitled consumption; The most complete blinders to the present are for the Eastern seaboard, This area was fortunate to get its oil and gas main and coal extracted west from the Mississippi, with the most part, until the propane discovery in a area supplying the h2o to New York City. It is exciting to click here find out the extraction method know as fracking create a blip for the environmental radar. Otherwise the catastrophes of flood, or drought or tornado or hurricane are from sight and soon beyond mind until these are on your head. Hopefully the very 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 coffee lottery.
I am particularly considering one fantasy that we've got been managing, and wishing operating our heart were true. Cheap clean energy. There is not any such thing regardless of how many ads the thing is that on TV. There is clean energy, yet it's not cheap. Wind and solar require capital investment at the start. Our government employed to invest in this kind of thing, and also to being crippled by politics, were crippled by war debt and our stupid decision to bail out rich folks. There is affordable[ish] energy is cheap in the pump, in comparison towards the rest of the planet. This we now have subsidized through regulations and tax breaks, cheap leases, nonexistent environmental regulation; it's becoming very costly due to its effect on global warming but, maddeningly, there's no mental connection to the telltale 'externalized' costs we're also beginning to cash inability cost us our very lives. The gas industry truly does offer a less carbon emitting fuel, but producers refuse for making any efforts to cut back it's carbon footprint configuring it OUT on the ground. It flares and fracks any time they want, allowing methane and open pits of benzene along with other volatile organic compounds to off-gas into the environment. A drilling site is surely an ugly, smelly dangerous place. They don't call the staff rough necks for nothing. And remember that we will live to regret the numerous gallons of water that has become rendered unusable by used in drilling. Don't expect anything sensible from your extraction industry, or politicians. I could continue but why bother Get ready for more chaos.
When a tree falls from the forest and there is absolutely no one there to listen to it, does it come up with a sound?
When a tree falls in your head, does anybody wonder why?
Barb Coddington 203 3rd st Glenwood Spgs. Co 81601 970-0-945-9462