Is it possible it'll all agree now and earn 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 one who can seriously deny coffee? Seriously, I want a listing. If so, I don't believe they paid attention growing up or possibly they may be repressing their memories, which is certainly not the way in which I remember it.
If the science doesn't allow you to believe surely the chaos is convincing. And even if all you yourself have time for is work and sleep, have you detected the price of food, energy, insurance, growing? 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 have no longer shade to allow for the children to be the yard and so they receive third degree burns in the playground slide? I don't keep in mind that. The insect infected, downed and logged trees not absorb the carbon since they did, but they may be just trees and you will crank up the oxygen conditioning and remain inside. This is America why is this so? Your individual rights have been in the constitution by God that has comfort.
The shattering fact to me is that folks have no curiosity about what makes sense and no curiosity about the truth; or should I say so some are so cock-sure they know reality. This is truth quite separate from education or investigation and they often wrapped up inside the 'money equals brains' mentality. This view was beautifully illustrated by among my daughter's college friends in their 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 big money despite no knowledge and little effort, in addition to socialibility and staying in the right place in the right time, Despite producing nothing and consuming with abandon these people aren't contrite, these are bitter. They believe the masai have a right to your continuation with this money, a to spend and employ resources and so they 'conger up' a political view that supports their straight away to easy money, whatever the snow globe economy fantasy which was created for it to take place, and it doesn't matter what it means into the future. They believe the economy can and will expand forever.
Cars tend to be more important versus the highways they drive on, and houses tend to be more important as opposed to neighborhoods they stay at home. 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 of these civilization derives 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 possibly a car salesman.
A selfish, individual over society, disguised as individual over government, attitude is likely to make the world a challenging, polluted and unholy destination for a live.
And that's basically where we have been. Is it possible for this to be the better choice?
The car- ahh- the auto. The placed the poor can seem middle class plus 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 first time immigrants or teenage drivers or socialists. Cars are deemed to require comfort at any expense. They must control of the mountain passes and spare your kids the embarrassment of aging. For these cars we now have the directly to 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 must be open to your 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 desire for what is sensible, sustainable. I guess the question for the masters on the universe the 2% who may have corralled 60% of all 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 to suit your needs on the team. The game went from 11 to six 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 however the rich were smart enough to rig the action to gain the treasure, they've already 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 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 it has bought a house which will be underwater, literally, in very few years. He can turn to Florida but his seafood will likely be contaminated with oil and dispersants. It's too hot to get outside so from his air-conditioned lounge 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 to 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 may place in Europe throughout the plague. In a go to stop the Black Death the nobility of Europe retreat to barricade themselves into their castles. The rats and fleas were ready and looking forward to them. Bergman's survivors were roaming gypsies that prevent the plague when you're mobile and free'but certainly, equally ignorant from the cause from the death as being the nobles.
Ignorance, even though it has it's bliss, gets one nowhere inside our world. The meek may yet inherit the world, but they also 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, however, not the people still in tents or trailers, not the lower shrimp catches it shows the catastrophe, although not the results. Sometimes the final results are not even measured as with Fukishima. Have we have you ever heard about the radiation that drifted with all the jet stream straight on the West coast then on for being caught by my personal west side with 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 rare streak of bad luck; without any effect, no cause; No our planets atmosphere, nor not enough that' anti-capitalist regulation'. No recognition of corporate power over environmental laws that can safe guard the resources we should live; no realizing that 'if you poison our planet the world will poison you'. Will a tree should drop on the head for this to 'hit home'?
All of us should come to grips with your excessive, entitled consumption; The most complete blinders for this are around the Eastern seaboard, This area was fortunate to obtain its oil and gas and coal extracted west in the Mississippi, with the most part, until the gas discovery within an area supplying the normal water to New York City. It has become exciting to discover the extraction method know as fracking create 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 can be on your head. Hopefully the actual fact of local aging nuclear power plants, with on-site waste storage, are pause for thought after Fukishima and also the floods in here Missouri I'm sure the East Coast's time should come as there are ultimately no winners in the climatic change lottery.
I am particularly serious 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 regardless 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 utilized 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 reasonable[ish] strength that is cheap in the pump, in comparison towards the rest of the globe. This we now have subsidized through regulations, cheap leases, nonexistent environmental regulation; it's becoming costly due to its effect on coffee but, maddeningly, there isn't a mental connection to 'externalized' costs were beginning to pay for the inability might cost us our very lives. The gas industry truly does offer a less carbon emitting fuel, but producers refuse for making any efforts to scale back it's carbon footprint configuring it OUT with the ground. It flares and fracks anytime, 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 is rendered unusable by used in drilling. Don't expect anything sensible through the extraction industry, or politicians. I could carry on but why bother Get ready for more chaos.
When a tree falls inside forest and there isn't a one there to see 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