Is it possible it'll all add up 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 will become raging runoffs; the droughts and floods that affect our food production. Is there a individual that can seriously deny coffee? Seriously, I want a listing. If so, I don't believe they paid attention as a kid or possibly they're repressing their memories, because it's certainly not how I remember it.
If the science doesn't allow you to believe surely the chaos is convincing. And even if all one has time for is work and sleep, have you detected the price of food, energy, insurance, growing? That's a reality. The two inches 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 sound right when the tree visits the car or house, or individuals no longer shade to allow for the children to remain the yard and they also receive third degree burns through the playground slide? I don't do not forget that. The insect infected, downed and logged trees will no longer absorb the carbon since they did, but they may be just trees and you may crank up air conditioning and remain inside. This is America why is this so? Your individual rights have been in the constitution through God that features comfort.
The shattering fact to me is that folks have no fascination with what makes sense and no curiosity about the truth; or should I say so some are so cock-sure they know the simple truth. This is truth quite outside of education or investigation and they often wrapped up inside 'money equals brains' mentality. This view was beautifully illustrated by considered one of my daughter's college friends as part of his summation of his side of your 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 lot of cash despite no knowledge and little effort, besides socialibility and staying in the right place in the right time, Despite producing nothing and consuming with abandon these people will not be contrite, they're bitter. They believe they've got a right for the continuation in this money, a directly to spend and employ resources and they also '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 that occur, and whatever it means money for hard times. They believe the economy can and must expand forever.
Cars are definitely more important compared to the highways they drive on, and houses tend to be important as opposed to neighborhoods they stay at home. Taxes represent to those people a go to take 'hard' earned money, they being apparently uneducated to where roads and schools as well as the virtual order with their 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 much less 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 is likely to make the world a painful, polluted and unholy destination for a live.
And that's basically where were. Is it possible because of it to be the better choice?
The car- ahh- the automobile. The put the poor can be shown middle class as well as the middle class can seem wealthy. You can drive your financial statement across the street. The car will be the coarse, indelible meaning of status. Small cars are achievable immigrants or teenage drivers or socialists. Cars are deemed to desire comfort at any cost. They must management of the mountain passes and spare the youngsters the embarrassment of aging. For these cars we've got the to cheap gas. No one can make us get rid of our cars and walk.
Our public lands aren't nearly experiencing untrammeled beauty and wildlife the lands must be open to your internal combustion contrivance available. Owning and driving a motor vehicle, a snowmobile, a4- wheeler a jet ski, is within the bill of rights. Somewhere missing will be the bill of responsibilities. Also missing is an desire for what is sensible, sustainable. I guess the question on the masters on the universe the 2% who've corralled 60% of all money is. If you're so rich, why can't you be smart?
What is missing is a great sports analogy to spell out the material inequity. It's similar to the middle of your football game, , they switched to hockey. Not only do you lack skates there is absolutely no room for you personally on the team. The game went from 11 to six players. Only the 6 players are financed with hockey rink and gear to the game And the action is from town. You're odd man out.
But although the rich were smart enough to rig the sport to gain the treasure, they've already fowled the nest in their own business 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 with all the home in La Jolla continues to be bombarded with radiation from Fukishima and possesses bought a house which will be underwater, literally, in very few years. He can relocate 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 with the natural gas 'wild-catter' that fought every proposed beautiful, water and pipe line regulation, and flaunted the others, for making website his fortune.
It reminds me in the Ingmar Bergman film, 'The Seventh Seal', that may place in Europe through the plague. In a go to prevent the Black Death the nobility of Europe retreat to barricade themselves into their castles. The rats as well as their fleas were ready and expecting them. Bergman's survivors were roaming gypsies that prevent the plague when you are mobile and free'but naturally, just like ignorant with the cause from the death because nobles.
Ignorance, although it has it's bliss, gets one nowhere within our world. The meek may yet inherit the world, nevertheless they may not desire to. The mainstream media, shows us people starving in Somalia, shows us the tornados, the oil spills, the floods, the nuclear power plant meltdowns, although 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 as with Fukishima. Have we have you ever heard about the radiation that drifted using the jet stream straight for the West coast and after that on for being caught by my very own west side in 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 rare streak of bad luck; without the need of effect, no cause; No wipeout of the earths, nor absence of that' anti-capitalist regulation'. No recognition of corporate power over environmental laws which could safe guard the resources we should instead live; no realizing that 'if you poison our planet our planet will poison you'. Will a tree should drop on the head because of it to 'hit home'?
All of us have to come to grips with his excessive, entitled consumption; The most complete blinders to this particular are about the Eastern seaboard, This area was fortunate to get its oil and propane and coal extracted west with the Mississippi, for your most part, until the gas discovery in the area supplying the waters to New York City. It is exciting to find out the extraction method know as fracking generate a blip for the environmental radar. Otherwise the catastrophes of flood, or drought or tornado or hurricane are from sight and soon away from mind until they can be on your head. Hopefully the simple fact of local aging nuclear power plants, with on-site waste storage, are pause for thought after Fukishima as well as 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 living alongside, and wishing effortlessly our heart were true. Cheap clean energy. There isn't such thing regardless of how many ads the thing is that on TV. There is clean energy, yet it is not cheap. Wind and solar require capital investment in advance. Our government employed to invest in such a thing, and to being crippled by politics, we're crippled by war debt and our stupid decision to bail out rich folks. There is affordable[ish] souped up that is cheap on the pump, in comparison on the rest of the globe. This we have now subsidized through regulations and tax breaks, 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 'externalized' costs we're beginning to spend the money for 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 scale back 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 other volatile organic compounds to off-gas into the environment. A drilling site is definitely 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 may be rendered unusable by use within drilling. Don't expect anything sensible on 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 any one there to listen for it, does it come up with a sound?
When a tree falls in your head, does anybody wonder why?
Barb Coddington 203 3rd st Glenwood Spgs. Co 81601 970-0-945-9462