Is it possible it is going to all agree now and produce sense? The relentless sweltering summer heat, heavy on 66 % of the nation. The towns ravaged by monster tornadoes. The winters with extraordinary snow that will become raging runoffs; the droughts and floods that affect our food production. Is there a individual that can seriously deny coffee? Seriously, I want a listing. 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 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, getting larger? That's a reality. The 2 " in 30-minute rainstorms, which we've had locally, produce lightening and wind that burns down houses and takes down our most stately shade trees. Does it add up when the tree visits the car or house, or if you have no longer shade to permit the children to be the yard plus they receive third degree burns through the playground slide? I don't keep in mind that. The insect infected, downed and logged trees don't absorb the carbon when they did, but they're just trees and you'll crank up the environment conditioning and turn into inside. This is America why not? Your individual rights have been in the constitution and also by God that also includes comfort.
The shattering fact for me personally is that everyone has no involvement in what makes sense and no desire for the truth; or should I say so the majority are so cock-sure they know reality. This is truth quite separate from education or investigation and they often wrapped up within the 'money equals brains' mentality. This view was beautifully illustrated by among my daughter's college friends as part of 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, apart from socialibility and staying at the right place on the right time, Despite producing nothing and consuming with abandon these people aren't contrite, they may be bitter. They believe these people have a right for the continuation of the money, a to spend and utilize resources and in addition they 'conger up' a political view that supports their to certainly easy money, regardless of snow globe economy fantasy that has been created for it to take place, and no matter what it means in the future. They believe the economy can and really should expand forever.
Cars are definitely more important as opposed to highways they drive on, and houses will be more important compared to 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 and also the virtual order with their civilization arises 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 not to say know or vote their interests. It's a license. not an education must be a realtor or possibly a car salesman.
A selfish, individual over society, disguised as individual over government, attitude can make the world an arduous, polluted and unholy spot to live.
And that's just about where we're also. Is it possible for this to add up?
The car- ahh- the vehicle. The squeeze poor can be shown middle class and also the middle class can seem wealthy. You can drive your financial statement across the road. The car may be the coarse, indelible concept of status. Small cars are for brand spanking new immigrants or teenage drivers or socialists. Cars are deemed to wish comfort at any expense. They must management of the mountain passes and spare your kids the embarrassment of aging. For these cars we now have the to cheap gas. No one can make us get free from our cars and walk.
Our public lands aren't almost experiencing untrammeled beauty and wildlife the lands also needs to be open to the internal combustion contrivance available. Owning and worries, a snowmobile, a4- wheeler a jet ski, is incorporated in the bill of rights. Somewhere missing may be the bill of responsibilities. Also missing is an involvement in what is sensible, sustainable. I guess the question to your masters on the universe the 2% who may have corralled 60% of all the so-called 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 during the middle of an football game, , they switched to hockey. Not only do you lack skates there's no 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 for your game And the sport is outside of town. You're odd man out.
But although rich were smart enough to rig the overall game to gain the treasure, they've 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 may just make it to Dick Cheney's house in Jackson. The banker with all the home in La Jolla is bombarded with radiation from Fukishima and contains bought a house which is to be underwater, literally, in not many years. He can turn to Florida but his seafood is going to be contaminated with oil and dispersants. It's too hot to get outside so from his air-conditioned family room he can watch dead baby dolphins wash up about the beach. Oil and gas pipelines, scoured by river debris, break and ruin the fly fishing to the natural gas 'wild-catter' that fought every proposed beautiful, water and pipe line regulation, and flaunted others, to produce his fortune.
It reminds me in the Ingmar Bergman film, 'The Seventh Seal', that may place in Europe throughout the plague. In an endeavor to stay away from the Black Death the nobility of Europe retreat to barricade themselves into their castles. The rats as well as their fleas were ready and looking forward to them. Bergman's survivors were roaming gypsies that prevent the plague because they are mobile and free'but naturally, equally ignorant on the cause on the death as being the nobles.
Ignorance, although it has it's bliss, gets one nowhere within our world. The meek may yet inherit our planet, however they may not would like 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 the bottom shrimp catches it shows the catastrophe, and not the results. Sometimes the outcome are not even measured as with Fukishima. Have we heard about the radiation that drifted using the jet stream straight towards the West coast and on being caught by my own, personal west side from 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 lottery number birds here it suggests; just an exotic streak of bad luck; without having effect, no cause; No climate change, nor absence of that' anti-capitalist regulation'. No recognition of corporate control over environmental laws that may safe guard the resources we should live; no realizing that 'if you poison our planet the world will poison you'. Will a tree must drop with your head because of it to 'hit home'?
All of us ought to come to grips with the excessive, entitled consumption; The most complete blinders for this are about the Eastern seaboard, This area was fortunate to obtain its oil and gas and coal extracted west in the Mississippi, for that most part, until the propane discovery in the area supplying the waters to New York City. It may be exciting to discover 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 from 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 plus the floods in Missouri I'm sure the East Coast's time can come as there are ultimately no winners in the global warming lottery.
I am particularly enthusiastic about one fantasy that we've got been living alongside, and wishing operating our heart were true. Cheap clean energy. There isn't any such thing regardless of 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 employed to invest in these kinds of thing, and to being crippled by politics, were 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 to your rest of the earth. 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 global warming but, maddeningly, there isn't any mental connection to 'externalized' costs were beginning to give the inability might cost us our very lives. The gas main industry truly does offer a less carbon emitting fuel, but producers refuse to create any efforts to lessen it's carbon footprint setting it up OUT in the ground. It flares and fracks when needed, allowing methane and open pits of benzene along with volatile organic compounds to off-gas into mid-air. A drilling site is undoubtedly 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 may be rendered unusable by easy use in drilling. Don't expect anything sensible in the extraction industry, or politicians. I could embark on but why bother Get ready for more chaos.
When a tree falls from the forest and there is absolutely no one there to listen for it, does it create 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