Is it possible it'll 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 gets raging runoffs; the droughts and floods that affect our food production. Is there a individual who can seriously deny global warming? Seriously, I want a listing. If so, I don't believe they paid attention during a vacation or possibly they're repressing their memories, as it's certainly not how I remember it.
If the science doesn't cause 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, growing? That's a reality. The two inches 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 be the better choice when the tree visits the car or house, or individuals no longer shade to allow for the children to stay in the yard plus they receive third degree burns from your playground slide? I don't understand that. The insect infected, downed and logged trees no more absorb the carbon since they did, but these are just trees and you will crank up mid-air conditioning and grow inside. This is America why is this so? Your individual rights will be in the constitution through God that also includes comfort.
The shattering fact in my opinion is that folks have no fascination with what makes sense and no fascination with the truth; or should I say so most are so cock-sure they know reality. This is truth quite separate from education or investigation and often wrapped up inside 'money equals brains' mentality. This view was beautifully illustrated by considered one of my daughter's college friends as part of his summation of his side of any 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 big money despite no knowledge and little effort, in addition to socialibility and staying in 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 on the continuation with this money, a directly to spend and utilize resources and they also 'conger up' a political view that supports their straight away to easy money, regardless of snow globe economy fantasy that's created for it to take place, and it doesn't matter what it means money for hard times. They believe the economy can and may expand forever.
Cars tend to be more important compared to highways they drive on, and houses are definitely more important as opposed to neighborhoods they stand it. Taxes represent to those people a go to take 'hard' earned money, they being apparently uneducated to where roads and schools and also the virtual order with their 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 much less know or vote their interests. It's a license. not an education would have to be a realtor or possibly a car salesman.
A selfish, individual over society, disguised as individual over government, attitude could make the world a painful, polluted and unholy destination for a live.
And that's basically where we're also. Is it possible correctly to seem sensible?
The car- ahh- the auto. The placed the poor can be displayed middle class as well as the middle class can be shown wealthy. You can drive your financial statement across the road. The car would be the coarse, indelible meaning of status. Small cars are for brand spanking new immigrants or teenage drivers or socialists. Cars are deemed to require comfort at any expense. They must control of the mountain passes and spare the kids the embarrassment of aging. For these cars we've the to certainly cheap gas. No one can make us get rid of our cars and walk.
Our public lands aren't pretty much experiencing untrammeled beauty and wildlife the lands should also be open to the internal combustion contrivance available. Owning and worries, a snowmobile, a4- wheeler a jet ski, is within the bill of rights. Somewhere missing will be the bill of responsibilities. Also missing is an fascination with what is sensible, sustainable. I guess the question towards the masters on the universe the 2% with 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 such as the middle of an football game, , they switched to hockey. Not only do you lack skates there isn't a room to suit your check here needs on the team. The game went from 11 to players. Only the 6 players are financed with hockey rink and gear for that game And the experience is outside of town. You're odd man out.
But although the rich were smart enough to rig the experience to gain the treasure, they've already fowled the nest in their own business 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 is bombarded with radiation from Fukishima and has now bought a house which is to be underwater, literally, in made years. He can go on to Florida but his seafood is going to be contaminated with oil and dispersants. It's too hot being outside so from his air-conditioned lounge 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 for that natural gas 'wild-catter' that fought every proposed beautiful, water and pipe line regulation, and flaunted others, for making his fortune.
It reminds me on the Ingmar Bergman film, 'The Seventh Seal', which takes place in Europe throughout the plague. In a go to stay away from the Black Death the nobility of Europe retreat to barricade themselves inside their castles. The rats as well as their fleas were ready and anticipating them. Bergman's survivors were roaming gypsies that stay away from the plague when you are mobile and free'but naturally, in the same way ignorant in the cause with the death because the nobles.
Ignorance, community . has it's bliss, gets one nowhere in this world. The meek may yet inherit the planet earth, 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, and not the people still in tents or trailers, not the lower shrimp catches it shows the catastrophe, and not the results. Sometimes the outcome are not even measured just as Fukishima. Have we have you ever heard about the radiation that drifted using the jet stream straight for the West coast and on being 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 an exotic streak of bad luck; without any effect, no cause; No climate change, nor deficiency of that' anti-capitalist regulation'. No recognition of corporate charge of environmental laws that may safe guard the resources we must live; no if you know 'if you poison the planet earth planet earth will poison you'. Will a tree should drop on the head for doing this to 'hit home'?
All of us must come to grips with the excessive, entitled consumption; The most complete blinders to the present are about the Eastern seaboard, This area was fortunate to own its oil and propane and coal extracted west from the Mississippi, for that most part, until the gas discovery in a area supplying the h2o to New York City. It has become exciting to discover the extraction method know as fracking come up with a blip for the environmental radar. Otherwise the catastrophes of flood, or drought or tornado or hurricane are beyond sight and soon beyond 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 and also 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 thinking about one fantasy that we have now 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, but it's not cheap. Wind and solar require capital investment in advance. Our government accustomed to invest in this kind of thing, but will also to being crippled by politics, we're also crippled by war debt and our stupid decision to bail out rich folks. There is reasonable[ish] energy is cheap in the pump, in comparison for the rest of the planet. This we've subsidized through regulations and tax breaks, cheap leases, nonexistent environmental regulation; it really is becoming extremely expensive due to its effect on coffee but, maddeningly, there isn't a mental connection to the telltale 'externalized' costs we're beginning to cash inability cost us our very lives. The propane industry truly does offer a less carbon emitting fuel, but producers refuse to generate any efforts to lessen it's carbon footprint configuring it OUT with the ground. It flares and fracks when needed, allowing methane and open pits of benzene along with other volatile organic compounds to off-gas into air. A drilling site is surely an ugly, smelly dangerous place. They don't call employees rough necks for nothing. And let's face it we will live to regret the an incredible number of gallons of water that continues to be rendered unusable by use within drilling. Don't expect anything sensible on the extraction industry, or politicians. I could embark on but why bother Get ready for more chaos.
When a tree falls inside forest and there isn't a one there to listen for it, does it generate 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