No Time Seems Left for Restraint

OK so with Hurricane Rita heading into a very warm Gulf of Mexico I will just say it - GLOBAL WARMING HAS HAPPENED. And just in case you were not aware: warmer water = stronger hurricanes.

This is NOT by intelligent design. It is by ignorant greed. OK so stop driving so much and so fast or else get a Prius or something very fuel efficient. Then take public transportation, walk and ride your bikes more often.

The other thing that will be necessary is the discontinuation of deforestation. The last time you walked through a deep forest on a hot day did you notice how cool it is under the canopy? Walk out onto clear cut stumps and feel the heat. We go on about saving tropical rain forests in Central and South America while at the same time we have chain saws buzzing and junk mail flying everywhere here. Guess what - wood decks and paper comes from trees - you know the ones that are being cut by the square mile in Canada or here in the good ol USA. And the Rove-speak term "Healthy Forests" means more roads expressly for timber and mining profits which means more invasive building of homes which means even more roads which means thinner forests which means hotter Gulfs of Mexico which means more hurricanes.

Hey, yeah, you may be some neo-conservative who's going to argue that the planet will not be here forever anyway. Well if the second coming of our intelligent designer is going to happen it is NOT going to be pleasant for the greedy. Believe all you want but faith without works is D-E-A-D.

I have been offering mostly positive thoughts and ideas or information on upbeat trends up until now but am growing more frustrated by the lack of any serious debate over ecosystem demise and needed to vent. No apologies.

If you do nothing else - do pay attention to the trends.

Cons, neo-cons, libs, neo-libs don't be shy and contact me here.

Later.