Is it possible it can all add up now and earn sense? The relentless sweltering summer heat, heavy on 2 / 3 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 individual that can seriously deny java prices? Seriously, I want a listing. If so, I don't believe they paid attention growing up or possibly they may be repressing their memories, because it's certainly not the way in which 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, 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 visits the car or house, or if you have no longer shade allowing the children to remain the yard and so they receive third degree burns on the playground slide? I don't keep in mind that. The insect infected, downed and logged trees don't absorb the carbon while they did, but these are just trees and you could crank up the oxygen conditioning and turn into inside. This is America why not? Your individual rights are usually in the constitution by God that has comfort.
The shattering fact personally is that individuals have no involvement in 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 sometimes wrapped up from the 'money equals brains' mentality. This view was beautifully illustrated by among my daughter's college friends in the 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 a ton of money despite no knowledge and little effort, besides socialibility and going to 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 these people have a right for the continuation in this money, a to spend and employ resources and they also 'conger up' a political view that supports their to certainly easy money, regardless of snow globe economy fantasy that's created for it to occur, and whatever it means in the future. They believe the economy can and really should expand forever.
Cars will be more important versus the highways they drive on, and houses will be more important compared to neighborhoods they stay at home. Taxes represent to those people a shot to take 'hard' earned money, they being apparently uneducated to where roads and schools and also the virtual order of the civilization emanates 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 not to say 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 can certainly make the world a challenging, polluted and unholy location to live.
And that's virtually where were. Is it possible because of it to be the better choice?
The car- ahh- your vehicle. The put the poor can seem middle class along with the middle class can look wealthy. You can drive your financial statement across the street. 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 want comfort at any cost. They must handle of the mountain passes and spare your children the embarrassment of aging. For these cars we've got the to certainly 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 also needs to be open to the internal combustion contrivance on the market. Owning and driving a motor vehicle, a snowmobile, a4- wheeler a jet ski, is with 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 towards the masters in the universe the 2% that have corralled 60% of all money is. If you're so rich, why can't you be smart?
What is missing is an effective sports analogy to spell out the material inequity. It's such as 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 to players. Only the 6 players are financed with hockey rink and gear for your game And the experience is beyond town. You're odd man out.
But although the rich were smart enough to rig the action to gain the treasure, they've fowled the nest by themselves as well as us and also this 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 with all the home in La Jolla has become bombarded with radiation from Fukishima and possesses 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 being outside so from his air-conditioned family room he can watch dead baby dolphins wash up within 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, to produce his fortune.
It reminds me from the Ingmar Bergman film, 'The Seventh Seal', that may place in Europe through the plague. In a shot to steer clear of the Black Death the nobility of Europe retreat to barricade themselves inside their castles. The rats and fleas were ready and awaiting them. Bergman's survivors were roaming gypsies that prevent the plague because they are mobile and free'but needless to say, in the same way ignorant in the cause on the death since the nobles.
Ignorance, eventhough it has it's bliss, gets one nowhere in this 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, and not the people still in tents or trailers, not period of time shrimp catches it shows the catastrophe, although not the results. Sometimes the outcomes 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 to get caught by my own, personal 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 silly streak of bad luck; without any effect, no cause; No wipeout of the earths, nor not enough that' anti-capitalist regulation'. No recognition of corporate charge of environmental laws which could safe guard the resources we must live; no knowning that 'if you poison the world the planet earth will poison you'. Will a tree should drop in your head because of it to 'hit home'?
All of us must come to grips with this excessive, entitled consumption; The most complete blinders to the present are here around the Eastern seaboard, This area was fortunate to obtain its oil and gas and coal extracted west on the Mississippi, for that most part, until the gas discovery in a area supplying the h2o to New York City. It has become exciting to find out the extraction method know as fracking generate a blip around the environmental radar. Otherwise the catastrophes of flood, or drought or tornado or hurricane are away from sight and soon outside of mind until they may be on your head. Hopefully 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 arrive as there are ultimately no winners in the coffee lottery.
I am particularly thinking about one fantasy that we've got been living alongside, and wishing operating our heart were true. Cheap clean energy. There isn't a such thing regardless how many ads the thing is that on TV. There is clean energy, yet it's not cheap. Wind and solar require capital investment beforehand. Our government employed to invest in this kind of thing, and 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 for the pump, in comparison on the rest of the globe. This we've subsidized through regulations, cheap leases, nonexistent environmental regulation; it truly is becoming expensive due to its effect on java prices but, maddeningly, there isn't any mental connection to 'externalized' costs we're also beginning to cash inability cost us our very lives. The propane industry genuinely does offer a less carbon emitting fuel, but producers refuse to generate any efforts to relieve it's carbon footprint configuring it OUT in the ground. It flares and fracks as you desire, 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 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 utilization in drilling. Don't expect anything sensible from your extraction industry, or politicians. I could continue on but why bother Get ready for more chaos.
When a tree falls from the forest and there isn't a one there to listen to it, does it generate 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