Is it possible it can all get together now making 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 raging runoffs; the droughts and floods that affect our food production. Is there a one that can seriously deny java prices? Seriously, I want an email list. If so, I don't believe they paid attention as a kid or possibly these are 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 you have 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 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 visits the car or house, or should there be 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 will no longer absorb the carbon while they did, but they may be just trees and you'll crank up air conditioning and turn into inside. This is America why is this so? Your individual rights have been in the constitution by God that features comfort.
The shattering fact to me is that everyone has no desire for what makes sense and no fascination with the truth; or should I say so most are so cock-sure they know the reality. This is truth quite separate from education or investigation and quite often wrapped up inside the 'money equals brains' mentality. This view was beautifully illustrated by one among my daughter's college friends in the summation of his side of an 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, aside from socialibility and staying at the right place for the right time, Despite producing nothing and consuming with abandon these people will not be contrite, these are bitter. They believe there is a right to your continuation with this money, a straight away to spend and rehearse resources and so they 'conger up' a political view that supports their to easy money, regardless of snow globe economy fantasy which was created for it that occurs, and regardless of the it means in the future. They believe the economy can and really should 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 about bat roosting people an effort to take 'hard' earned money, they being apparently uneducated to where roads and schools along with 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 aside from 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 make the world a hard, polluted and unholy destination to live.
And that's basically where were. Is it possible correctly to add up?
The car- ahh- the automobile. The squeeze poor can be shown middle class plus the middle class can look wealthy. You can drive your financial statement across the road. The car would be the coarse, indelible specification of status. Small cars are achievable immigrants or teenage drivers or socialists. Cars are deemed to desire comfort at any cost. They must handle of the mountain passes and spare the youngsters the embarrassment old. For these cars we've got the to cheap gas. No one can make us leave our cars and walk.
Our public lands aren't practically experiencing untrammeled beauty and wildlife the lands must be open to the internal combustion contrivance around the world. Owning and worries, a snowmobile, a4- wheeler a jet ski, is within the bill of rights. Somewhere missing may 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% 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 effective sports analogy to describe the material inequity. It's as with 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 that game And the experience is from 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 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 together with the home in La Jolla may be bombarded with radiation from Fukishima and it has bought a house that is to be click here underwater, literally, in manufactured years. He can go on to Florida but his seafood will likely be contaminated with oil and dispersants. It's too hot to become outside so from his air-conditioned family area 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 to the natural gas 'wild-catter' that fought every proposed climate, water and pipe line regulation, and flaunted others, to generate his fortune.
It reminds me on the Ingmar Bergman film, 'The Seventh Seal', that can take 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 since they can be mobile and free'but naturally, equally as ignorant on the cause from the death because 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 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, although not the people still in tents or trailers, not period of time shrimp catches it shows the catastrophe, and not the results. Sometimes the outcome are not even measured like Fukishima. Have we heard about the radiation that drifted using the jet stream straight towards the West coast and on for being caught by my 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 unique streak of bad luck; without effect, no cause; No climate change, nor not enough that' anti-capitalist regulation'. No recognition of corporate charge of environmental laws that might safe guard the resources we must live; no knowning that 'if you poison the world the planet earth will poison you'. Will a tree must drop with your head correctly to 'hit home'?
All of us have to come to grips with the excessive, entitled consumption; The most complete blinders for this are for the Eastern seaboard, This area was fortunate to possess its oil and propane and coal extracted west with the Mississippi, for that most part, until the propane discovery within an area supplying the mineral water to New York City. It is exciting to find out the extraction method know as fracking generate a blip about the environmental radar. Otherwise the catastrophes of flood, or drought or tornado or hurricane are from sight and soon beyond mind until they're on your head. Hopefully the actual 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 no winners in the climatic change lottery.
I am particularly thinking about one fantasy that we've been coping with, and wishing operating our heart were true. Cheap clean energy. There isn't any such thing it doesn't matter 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 employed to invest in these kinds of thing, but will also to being crippled by politics, we have been crippled by war debt and our stupid decision to bail out rich folks. There is reasonable[ish] energy is cheap for the pump, in comparison to your rest of the planet. This we've subsidized through regulations and tax breaks, 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 those 'externalized' costs we're beginning to spend the money for inability might cost us our very lives. The gas main industry will offer a less carbon emitting fuel, but producers refuse for making any efforts to relieve it's carbon footprint received it OUT from 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 undoubtedly an ugly, smelly dangerous place. They don't call employees rough necks for nothing. And remember that we will live to regret the countless 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 continue on but why bother Get ready for more chaos.
When a tree falls inside forest and there isn't any one there to see it, does it generate 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