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.
posted by Unknown @ 8:20 PM
1 Comments:
John,
CNN (considered by some neo-cons to be a commie organization) is quoted as writing about Judge Roberts:
"Ultimately, his dissent is so extreme as to, in effect, reject the protections of the federal Endangered Species Act."
This is in reference to the San Diego case of builders versus endangered toads. (You can Google "John Roberts"+toad if you don't believe me.)
Now that may not seem like much to you. After all whats one little ol toad species?
Each drop in the extinction bucket is a decline in our standard of living. In my opinion, I have not witnessed anything like the wholesale turnover of ecosystems to industrial concerns as has been accomplished in the past 5 short years. The "conservatives" (and I put that in quotes because it was true conservatives - not neo-conservatives - that created the National Parks system) have been in charge for that 5 short years.
If you are really concerned about the environment, the earth's health, plant and animal (including human) health, and our general REAL quality of life, then you better get active now.
As for the history of hurricanes, though I admit to be ignorant, I have noticed two years back-to-back in which major destruction has occurred. I also am aware that polar caps and glaciers around the planet are melting rapidly. This is mostly caused by automobiles and the oil industries lobbying to block any sort of conservation reform in energy policy. I am losing faith that the Democrats can or will do anything to change the foolishness of it all.
The good news is that Toyota Priuses that were down to 2 week waiting are back up to 6 months. I guess the market will take care of some of the problems. As for toads, there is probably nothing but angry environmentalists and powerful, concerned government that will take care of that.
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