Is it possible it can all agree 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 who can seriously deny java prices? Seriously, I want a subscriber base. If so, I don't believe they paid attention since a child or possibly these are repressing their memories, because it's certainly not just how 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, increasing? That's a reality. The 2 " 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 visits the car or house, or if you find no longer shade permitting the children to stay 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 when they did, but these are just trees and you'll crank up the environment conditioning and grow inside. This is America why is this so? Your individual rights will be in the constitution by God that also includes comfort.
The shattering fact for me personally is that everyone has no curiosity about what makes sense and no desire for the truth; or should I say so most are so cock-sure they know the simple truth. This is truth quite separate from education or investigation and often wrapped up from the 'money equals brains' mentality. This view was beautifully illustrated by among my daughter's college friends in their summation of his side of an 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 lots of money despite no knowledge and little effort, aside from socialibility and staying in the right place for the right time, Despite producing nothing and consuming with abandon these people aren't contrite, they can be bitter. They believe there is a right on the continuation on this money, a to spend and employ resources and so they 'conger up' a political view that supports their directly to easy money, whatever the snow globe economy fantasy which was created for it to occur, and regardless of the it means for future years. They believe the economy can and may expand forever.
Cars will be more important as opposed to highways they drive on, and houses tend to be important compared to the 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 as well as the virtual order of these civilization arises 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 perhaps a car salesman.
A selfish, individual over society, disguised as individual over government, attitude can make the world a challenging, polluted and unholy destination to live.
And that's virtually where we're also. Is it possible because of it to add up?
The car- ahh- the automobile. The put the poor can look middle class and also the middle class can seem wealthy. You can drive your financial statement outside. The car may be the coarse, indelible meaning of status. Small cars are for brand spanking new immigrants or teenage drivers or socialists. Cars are deemed to want comfort no matter what. They must management of the mountain passes and spare the youngsters the embarrassment of aging. For these cars we've got the to certainly cheap gas. No one can make us escape our cars and walk.
Our public lands aren't nearly experiencing untrammeled beauty and wildlife the lands need to be open to the internal combustion contrivance on the market. Owning and driving a vehicle, a snowmobile, a4- wheeler a jet ski, is incorporated in the bill of rights. Somewhere missing would be the bill of responsibilities. Also missing is an desire for what is sensible, sustainable. I guess the question on the masters from the universe the 2% who may have corralled 60% of all money is. If you're so rich, why can't you be smart?
What is missing is an excellent sports analogy to spell out the material inequity. It's as with the middle of the football game, , they switched to hockey. Not only do you lack skates there is absolutely no room available for you on the team. The game went from 11 in order to six players. Only the 6 players are financed with hockey rink and gear with the game And the sport is from town. You're odd man out.
But although rich were smart enough to rig the sport to gain the treasure, they have got fowled the nest for their own reasons as well as us 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 while using home in La Jolla may be bombarded with radiation from Fukishima and contains bought a house that is to be underwater, literally, in manufactured years. He can turn 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 others, to create his fortune.
It reminds me in the Ingmar Bergman film, read more 'The Seventh Seal', that may place in Europe over the plague. In a shot to steer clear of the Black Death the nobility of Europe retreat to barricade themselves into their castles. The rats along with their fleas were ready and expecting them. Bergman's survivors were roaming gypsies that prevent the plague when you're mobile and free'but obviously, equally as ignorant with the cause with the death because nobles.
Ignorance, community . has it's bliss, gets one nowhere inside our world. The meek may yet inherit our planet, 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 period of time shrimp catches it shows the catastrophe, although not the results. Sometimes the final results are not even measured just as Fukishima. Have we heard about the radiation that drifted together with the jet stream straight towards the West coast then on to get caught by my west side on 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 effect, no cause; No wipeout of the earths, nor not enough that' anti-capitalist regulation'. No recognition of corporate power over environmental laws that may safe guard the resources we must live; no realizing that 'if you poison planet earth the planet earth will poison you'. Will a tree must drop with your head correctly to 'hit home'?
All of us must come to grips with this excessive, entitled consumption; The most complete blinders to the present are about the Eastern seaboard, This area was fortunate to get its oil and propane and coal extracted west on the Mississippi, for your most part, until the gas main discovery in a area supplying the normal water to New York City. It has become exciting to view the extraction method know as fracking create a blip about the environmental radar. Otherwise the catastrophes of flood, or drought or tornado or hurricane are from sight and soon from 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 plus 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've been coping with, and wishing operating our heart were true. Cheap clean energy. There is not any such thing regardless of how many ads you observe on TV. There is clean energy, however it is not cheap. Wind and solar require capital investment in the beginning. Our government familiar with invest in such a 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] strength that is cheap with the pump, in comparison on the rest of the earth. This we've got subsidized through regulations, cheap leases, nonexistent environmental regulation; it truly is becoming expensive due to its effect on global warming but, maddeningly, there is absolutely no mental connection to those 'externalized' costs were beginning to pay for the inability cost us our very lives. The propane industry will offer a less carbon emitting fuel, but producers refuse to generate any efforts to lessen it's carbon footprint setting it up OUT from the ground. It flares and fracks any time they want, 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 trust me we will live to regret the a lot of gallons of water that has become rendered unusable by used in drilling. Don't expect anything sensible in 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 isn't a one there to know it, does it produce 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