Is it possible it is going to all get together now to make sense? The relentless sweltering summer heat, heavy on sixty-six per cent 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 that can seriously deny global warming? Seriously, I want a subscriber base. If so, I don't believe they paid attention as a kid or possibly these are repressing their memories, which is certainly not how I remember it.
If the science doesn't allow you to be believe surely the chaos is convincing. And even if all an individual has time for is work and sleep, have you detected the price of food, energy, insurance, increasing? 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 seem sensible when the tree arrives at the car or house, or if you find no longer shade to permit the children to remain the yard and in addition they receive third degree burns on the playground slide? I don't understand that. The insect infected, downed and logged trees will no longer absorb the carbon because they did, but they're just trees and you could crank up the oxygen conditioning and turn into inside. This is America why not? Your individual rights have been in the constitution and also God that also includes comfort.
The shattering fact to me is that individuals have no curiosity about what makes sense and no desire for the truth; or should I say so the majority are so cock-sure they know the facts. This is truth quite outside of education or investigation and quite often wrapped up from the 'money equals brains' mentality. This view was beautifully illustrated by one among 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 at the right place in the right time, Despite producing nothing and consuming with abandon these people aren't contrite, these are bitter. They believe there is a right on the continuation in this money, a directly to spend and utilize resources plus they 'conger up' a political view that supports their to certainly easy money, no matter the snow globe economy fantasy that had been created for it that occur, and it doesn't matter what it means money for hard times. They believe the economy can and will expand forever.
Cars tend to be important versus the highways they drive on, and houses will be more important as opposed to neighborhoods they stand it. Taxes represent to the telltale people a go to take 'hard' earned money, they being apparently uneducated to where roads and schools plus the virtual order of the civilization originates from. Lack of taxes cracks the veneer of prosperity as visibly as rust and pot holes, and since 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 should be a realtor or maybe a car salesman.
A selfish, individual over society, disguised as individual over government, attitude can certainly make the world a hard, polluted and unholy location to live.
And that's basically where we have been. Is it possible for this to add up?
The car- ahh- the vehicle. The put the poor can be displayed middle class along with the middle class can look wealthy. You can drive your financial statement across town. The car may be the coarse, indelible concept of status. Small cars are for brand new 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 the to certainly cheap gas. No one can make us leave our cars and walk.
Our public lands aren't nearly experiencing untrammeled beauty and wildlife the lands also needs to be open to your internal combustion contrivance on the market. Owning and driving a motor vehicle, a snowmobile, a4- wheeler a jet ski, is incorporated in the bill of rights. Somewhere missing will be the bill of responsibilities. Also missing is an desire for what is sensible, sustainable. I guess the question on the masters in the universe the 2% with corralled 60% with all the different money is. If you're so rich, why can't you be smart?
What is missing is a great sports analogy to describe the material inequity. It's as with the middle of the football game, , they switched to hockey. Not only do you lack skates there isn't any room for you personally on the team. The game went from 11 to six players. Only the 6 players are financed with hockey rink and gear with the game And the experience is outside of 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 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 while using home in La Jolla continues to be bombarded with radiation from Fukishima and has now bought a house which is to be underwater, literally, in not many years. He can proceed to Florida but his seafood are going to be contaminated with oil and dispersants. It's too hot being 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 for that natural gas 'wild-catter' that fought every proposed beautiful, water and pipe line regulation, and flaunted the others, for making his fortune.
It reminds me with the Ingmar Bergman film, 'The Seventh Seal', that can place in Europe throughout the plague. In a shot to stop the Black Death the nobility of Europe retreat to barricade themselves into their castles. The rats as well as their fleas were ready and awaiting them. Bergman's survivors were roaming gypsies that steer clear of the plague because they are mobile and free'but certainly, just like ignorant with the cause in the death because the nobles.
Ignorance, although check here it has it's bliss, gets one nowhere in your 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 period of time shrimp catches it shows the catastrophe, yet not the results. Sometimes the outcome are not even measured as with Fukishima. Have we have you ever heard about the radiation that drifted while using jet stream straight for the West coast then on to get caught by my very own 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 rare streak of bad luck; without the need of effect, no cause; No climatic change, nor absence of that' anti-capitalist regulation'. No recognition of corporate control over environmental laws that can safe guard the resources we should instead live; no if you know 'if you poison planet earth the world will poison you'. Will a tree must drop on the head for this to 'hit home'?
All of us ought to come to grips with your excessive, entitled consumption; The most complete blinders to this particular are for the Eastern seaboard, This area was fortunate to own its oil and propane and coal extracted west from the Mississippi, with the most part, until the propane discovery inside an area supplying the mineral water to New York City. It continues to be exciting to view the extraction method know as fracking produce a blip around the environmental radar. Otherwise the catastrophes of flood, or drought or tornado or hurricane are outside of sight and soon from mind until these are on your head. Hopefully 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 can come as there are ultimately no winners in the climatic change lottery.
I am particularly thinking about one fantasy that we have now been managing, and wishing wonderful our heart were true. Cheap clean energy. There isn't a such thing regardless how many ads you observe on TV. There is clean energy, but it's not cheap. Wind and solar require capital investment at the start. Our government familiar with invest in these kinds of thing, but will also to being crippled by politics, we're crippled by war debt and our stupid decision to bail out rich folks. There is affordable[ish] energy is cheap with the pump, in comparison to your rest of the planet. This we've subsidized through regulations, cheap leases, nonexistent environmental regulation; it can be becoming expensive due to its effect on coffee but, maddeningly, there isn't any mental connection to 'externalized' costs we're also beginning to give the inability might cost us our very lives. The gas main industry genuinely does offer a less carbon emitting fuel, but producers refuse to create any efforts to cut back it's carbon footprint configuring it OUT in the ground. It flares and fracks anytime, allowing methane and open pits of benzene as well as other volatile organic compounds to off-gas into air. A drilling site is surely 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 is rendered unusable by easy use in 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 the forest and there's no one there to see it, does it come up with a sound?
When a tree falls on your own head, does anybody wonder why?
Barb Coddington 203 3rd st Glenwood Spgs. Co 81601 970-0-945-9462