Is it possible it is going to all add up now and produce sense? The relentless sweltering summer heat, heavy on 60 % 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 one who can seriously deny java prices? Seriously, I want an inventory. If so, I don't believe they paid attention as a kid or possibly they're repressing their memories, since it is certainly not the way in which I remember it.
If the science doesn't cause you to be 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 2 " 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 add up when the tree visits the car or house, or if you find no longer shade to allow for the children to stay in the yard and in addition they receive third degree burns from your playground slide? I don't keep in mind that. The insect infected, downed and logged trees don't absorb the carbon because they did, but these are just trees and you may crank up the oxygen conditioning and remain inside. This is America why not? Your individual rights are usually in the constitution and also by God that has comfort.
The shattering fact personally is that folk have no fascination with what makes sense and no desire for the truth; or should I say so most are so cock-sure they know reality. This is truth quite separate from education or investigation and they often wrapped up inside the 'money equals brains' mentality. This view was beautifully illustrated by considered one of my daughter's college friends within his summation of his side of the 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, besides socialibility and going to the right place for the right time, Despite producing nothing and consuming with abandon these people are certainly not contrite, these are bitter. They believe they've got a right to your continuation in this money, a straight away to spend and utilize resources and in addition they 'conger up' a political view that supports their straight away to easy money, in spite of the snow globe economy fantasy that had been created for it to take place, and it doesn't matter what it means in the future. They believe the economy can and really should expand forever.
Cars tend to be more important versus the highways they drive on, and houses tend to be important as opposed to neighborhoods they stand it. Taxes represent to the telltale people a shot to take 'hard' earned money, they being apparently uneducated to where roads and schools as well as the virtual order of these civilization emanates from. Lack of taxes cracks the veneer of prosperity as visibly as rust and pot holes, in addition to being 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 had to be a realtor or possibly a car salesman.
A selfish, individual over society, disguised as individual over government, attitude can make the world a painful, polluted and unholy location to live.
And that's just about where we're also. Is it possible correctly to add up?
The car- ahh- the vehicle. The position the poor can be displayed middle class as well as the middle class can be shown wealthy. You can drive your financial statement outside. The car may be the coarse, indelible specification of status. Small cars are achievable immigrants or teenage drivers or socialists. Cars are deemed to wish comfort at any expense. They must handle of the mountain passes and spare the youngsters the embarrassment of aging. For these cars we've the to cheap gas. No one can make us leave our cars and walk.
Our public lands aren't pretty much experiencing untrammeled beauty and wildlife the lands should also be open to the internal combustion contrivance on the market. Owning and worries, 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 curiosity about what is sensible, sustainable. I guess the question towards the masters from the universe the 2% who've corralled 60% of all of the money is. If you're so rich, why can't you be smart?
What is missing is a superb sports analogy to go into detail the material inequity. It's during the middle of your football game, , they switched to hockey. Not only do you lack skates there isn't a 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 to the game And the action is away from town. You're odd man out.
But the rich were smart enough to rig the action to gain the treasure, they have got fowled the nest by themselves 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 might just make it to Dick Cheney's house in Jackson. The banker while using home in La Jolla is bombarded with radiation from Fukishima and has now bought a house which will be underwater, literally, in made years. He can go on to Florida but his seafood is going to be contaminated with oil and dispersants. It's too hot being outside so from his air-conditioned lounge 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 your natural gas 'wild-catter' that fought every proposed climate, water and pipe line regulation, and flaunted the others, to produce his fortune.
It reminds me with the Ingmar Bergman film, 'The Seventh Seal', which takes place in Europe over the plague. In an effort to prevent the Black Death the nobility of Europe retreat to barricade themselves inside their castles. The rats in addition to their fleas were ready and expecting them. Bergman's survivors were roaming gypsies that prevent the plague when you are mobile and free'but certainly, equally as ignorant in the cause with the death since the nobles.
Ignorance, even though it has it's bliss, gets one nowhere inside our world. The meek may yet inherit the planet earth, nonetheless they 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, and not the results. Sometimes the effects are not even measured just as Fukishima. Have we have you ever heard about the radiation that drifted with all the jet stream straight towards the West coast after which on to become 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 an exotic streak of bad luck; without effect, no cause; No climate change, nor absence of that' anti-capitalist regulation'. No recognition of corporate charge of environmental laws which could safe guard the resources we should live; no knowning that 'if you poison the planet earth the planet earth will poison you'. Will a tree ought to drop on the head for doing this to 'hit home'?
All of us must come to grips with your excessive, entitled consumption; The most complete blinders for this are around the Eastern seaboard, This area was fortunate to possess its oil and gas and coal extracted west with the Mississippi, with the most part, until the propane discovery in the area supplying the waters to New York City. It is exciting to find out 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 beyond mind until these are 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 may come as there are ultimately no winners in the climatic change lottery.
I am particularly considering one fantasy that we've been experiencing, and wishing with all of our heart were true. Cheap clean energy. There is not any such thing however many ads the thing is that on TV. There is clean energy, however it is not cheap. Wind and solar require capital investment beforehand. Our government utilized to invest in this type of thing, but additionally to being crippled by politics, we're also crippled by war debt and our stupid decision to bail out rich folks. There is affordable[ish] energy is cheap in the pump, in comparison on the rest of the earth. This we've subsidized through regulations and tax breaks, cheap leases, nonexistent environmental regulation; it truly is becoming extremely expensive due to its effect on climatic change but, maddeningly, there isn't a mental connection to the telltale 'externalized' website costs we have been beginning to cash inability might cost us our very lives. The propane industry truly does offer a less carbon emitting fuel, but producers refuse to produce any efforts to scale back it's carbon footprint setting it up OUT with the ground. It flares and fracks when needed, allowing methane and open pits of benzene along with volatile organic compounds to off-gas into mid-air. A drilling site is surely an ugly, smelly dangerous place. They don't call employees rough necks for nothing. And remember that we will live to regret the a lot of gallons of water that may be rendered unusable by used 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 the forest and there isn't a one there to know it, does it produce 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