Is it possible it is going to all add up now and earn sense? The relentless sweltering summer heat, heavy on 60 % of the nation. The towns ravaged by monster tornadoes. The winters with extraordinary snow that gets to be raging runoffs; the droughts and floods that affect our food production. Is there a individual who can seriously deny coffee? Seriously, I want an email list. If so, I don't believe they paid attention since a child or possibly they may be repressing their memories, as it's certainly not the best way I remember it.
If the science doesn't allow 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 have now 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 arrives at the car or house, or should there be no longer shade to permit the children to be the yard plus they receive third degree burns from your playground slide? I don't keep in mind 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 will be in the constitution through God that has comfort.
The shattering fact for me personally is that individuals have no fascination with what makes sense and no desire for the truth; or should I say so some are so cock-sure they know the reality. This is truth quite separate from education or investigation and sometimes wrapped up inside the 'money equals brains' mentality. This view was beautifully illustrated by certainly one of 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 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 aren't contrite, these are bitter. They believe there is a right on the continuation in this money, a to spend and make use of resources and they also 'conger up' a political view that supports their to certainly easy money, regardless of snow globe economy fantasy that had been created for it that occur, and regardless of the it means into the future. They believe the economy can and really should expand forever.
Cars are definitely more important versus the highways they drive on, and houses tend to be important compared to the neighborhoods they stand it. Taxes represent to people a shot to take 'hard' earned money, they being apparently uneducated to where roads and schools along with 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 aside from 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 is likely to make the world a hard, polluted and unholy location to live.
And that's just about where we're also. Is it possible because of it to seem sensible?
The car- ahh- the auto. The put the poor can seem middle class and also the middle class can seem wealthy. You can drive your financial statement across the road. The car will be the coarse, indelible specification of status. Small cars are for brand new immigrants or teenage drivers or socialists. Cars are deemed to wish comfort no matter what. They must handle of the mountain passes and spare your children the embarrassment old. For these cars we've got the straight away to cheap gas. No one can make us escape our cars and walk.
Our public lands aren't almost experiencing untrammeled beauty and wildlife the lands must be open to your internal combustion contrivance on the market. Owning and driving a vehicle, a snowmobile, a4- wheeler a jet ski, is within 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 to your masters on the universe the 2% with corralled 60% of all of the 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 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 beyond town. You're odd man out.
But the rich were smart enough to rig the overall game to gain the treasure, they've 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 using the home in La Jolla is bombarded with radiation from Fukishima and possesses bought a house that is to be underwater, literally, in made years. He can go on to Florida but his seafood are 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 around 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 remainder, for making his fortune.
It reminds me with the Ingmar Bergman film, 'The Seventh Seal', that may place in Europe over the plague. In an effort to stop the Black Death the nobility of Europe retreat to barricade themselves inside their castles. The rats and fleas were ready and looking forward to them. Bergman's survivors were roaming gypsies that steer clear of the plague since they can be mobile and free'but certainly, just like ignorant in the cause from the death since the nobles.
Ignorance, eventhough it has it's bliss, gets one nowhere inside our world. The meek may yet inherit the planet earth, but they also 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 time frame shrimp catches it shows the catastrophe, yet not the results. Sometimes the outcomes are not even measured as with Fukishima. Have we have you ever heard about the radiation that drifted using the jet stream straight to your West coast and on being caught by my very own 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 here it suggests; just a rare streak of bad luck; without having effect, no cause; No climate change, nor deficiency of that' anti-capitalist regulation'. No recognition of corporate management of environmental laws which could safe guard the resources we should instead live; no knowing that 'if you poison the world planet earth will poison you'. Will a tree must drop on your own head for this to 'hit home'?
All of us must come to grips with his excessive, entitled consumption; The most complete blinders to the are for the Eastern seaboard, This area was fortunate to obtain its oil and gas and coal extracted west with the Mississippi, to the most part, until the gas main discovery inside an area supplying the h2o to New York City. It may be exciting to view the extraction method know as fracking generate a blip within the environmental radar. Otherwise the catastrophes of flood, or drought or tornado or hurricane are from sight and soon away 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 should come as there are ultimately website no winners in the climatic change lottery.
I am particularly enthusiastic about one fantasy that we have now been living alongside, and wishing operating our heart were true. Cheap clean energy. There is not any such thing it doesn't matter how many ads the truth is on TV. There is clean energy, however it is not cheap. Wind and solar require capital investment beforehand. 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 reasonable[ish] energy is cheap on the pump, in comparison for the rest of the entire world. This we've subsidized through regulations, cheap leases, nonexistent environmental regulation; it's becoming very costly due to its effect on global warming but, maddeningly, there isn't a mental connection to 'externalized' costs we're beginning to spend the money for inability cost us our very lives. The gas main industry will offer a less carbon emitting fuel, but producers refuse to generate any efforts to relieve it's carbon footprint received it OUT in the ground. It flares and fracks any time they want, allowing methane and open pits of benzene along with volatile organic compounds to off-gas into the oxygen. A drilling site can be an ugly, smelly dangerous place. They don't call the staff rough necks for nothing. And trust me we will live to regret the numerous gallons of water that is rendered unusable by easy use in drilling. Don't expect anything sensible in the extraction industry, or politicians. I could carry on but why bother Get ready for more chaos.
When a tree falls inside the forest and there isn't any one there to see it, does it come up with a sound?
When a tree falls with your head, does anybody wonder why?
Barb Coddington 203 3rd st Glenwood Spgs. Co 81601 970-0-945-9462