If A Tree Falls

Is it possible it is going to all get together now making sense? The relentless sweltering summer heat, heavy on 66 % 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 who can seriously deny coffee? Seriously, I want a listing. If so, I don't believe they paid attention as a kid or possibly they can be repressing their memories, which is certainly not how I remember it.

If the science doesn't cause you to believe surely the chaos is convincing. And even if all you yourself have 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've 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 individuals no longer shade permitting the children to remain the yard and they also receive third degree burns in the playground slide? I don't understand that. The insect infected, downed and logged trees will no longer absorb the carbon when they did, but they can be just trees and you may crank up mid-air conditioning and also be inside. This is America why is this so? Your individual rights come in the constitution through God that features comfort.

The shattering fact for me personally is that folk have no desire for what makes sense and no fascination with the truth; or should I say so some 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 one among my daughter's college friends in their 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 lots of money despite no knowledge and little effort, aside from socialibility and coming to the right place for the right time, Despite producing nothing and consuming with abandon these people are certainly not contrite, they're bitter. They believe these people have a right on the continuation on this money, a directly to spend and employ resources and they also 'conger up' a political view that supports their to certainly easy money, in spite of the snow globe economy fantasy which was created for it to take place, and regardless of the it means in the future. They believe the economy can and must expand forever.

Cars will be more important compared to the highways they drive on, and houses tend to be more important compared to neighborhoods they stay at home. Taxes represent to the telltale people an endeavor to take 'hard' earned money, they being apparently uneducated to where roads and schools plus the virtual order of the civilization emanates from. Lack of taxes cracks the veneer of prosperity as visibly as rust and pot holes, and since invisibly as children who can't or won't read, or make arithmetic calculations not to mention know or vote their interests. It's a license. not an education should be a realtor or maybe a car salesman.

A selfish, individual over society, disguised as individual over government, attitude can make the world a challenging, polluted and unholy location to live.
And that's essentially where we're. Is it possible correctly to be the better choice?
The car- ahh- the vehicle. The squeeze poor can look middle class and also the middle class can seem wealthy. You can drive your financial statement outside. The car could be the coarse, indelible specification of status. Small cars are achievable immigrants or teenage drivers or socialists. Cars are deemed to require comfort no matter what. They must handle of the mountain passes and spare the youngsters the embarrassment old. 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 practically experiencing untrammeled beauty and wildlife the lands need to be open to your internal combustion contrivance on the market. Owning and worries, a snowmobile, a4- wheeler a jet ski, influences bill of rights. Somewhere missing could be the bill of responsibilities. Also missing is an desire for what is sensible, sustainable. I guess the question on the masters in the universe the 2% who may have corralled 60% of all the so-called money is. If you're so rich, why can't you be smart?

What is missing is a superb sports analogy to clarify the material inequity. It's similar to the middle of your football game, , they switched to hockey. Not only do you lack skates there's no room to suit your needs on the team. The game went from 11 to six players. Only the 6 players are financed with hockey rink and gear for that game And the experience is beyond town. You're odd man out.

But although rich were smart enough to rig the sport to gain the treasure, they have got 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 might just make it to Dick Cheney's house in Jackson. The banker together with 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 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 to the natural gas 'wild-catter' that fought every proposed climate, water and pipe line regulation, and flaunted others, to produce his fortune.

It reminds me in the Ingmar Bergman film, 'The Seventh Seal', which takes place in Europe throughout the plague. In an endeavor to stay away from the Black Death the nobility of Europe retreat to barricade themselves inside their castles. The rats and fleas were ready and looking forward to them. Bergman's survivors were roaming gypsies that stay away from the plague since they can be mobile and free'but needless to say, equally ignorant with the cause on the death because nobles.

Ignorance, although it has it's bliss, gets one nowhere in your world. The meek may yet inherit our planet, nonetheless they may not would like to. The mainstream media, shows us people starving in Somalia, shows us the tornados, the oil spills, the floods, the nuclear power plant meltdowns, yet not the people still in tents or trailers, not period of time shrimp catches it shows the catastrophe, yet not the results. Sometimes the final results are not even measured just as Fukishima. Have we heard about the radiation that drifted while using jet stream straight towards the West coast and after that on for being caught by my own, personal west side on 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 a silly streak of bad luck; without any effect, no cause; No our planets atmosphere, nor absence of that' anti-capitalist regulation'. No recognition of corporate power over environmental laws which could safe guard the resources we should live; no knowing that 'if you poison planet earth the world will poison you'. Will a tree need to drop on the head for this to 'hit home'?

All of us must come to grips with the excessive, entitled consumption; The most complete blinders to the present are around the Eastern seaboard, This area was fortunate to get its oil and propane and coal extracted west on the Mississippi, for that most part, until the gas discovery in a area supplying the mineral water to New York City. It is exciting to determine 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 beyond sight and soon beyond mind until they can be on your head. Hopefully the very fact of local aging nuclear power plants, with on-site waste storage, are pause for thought after Fukishima and also the floods in Missouri I'm sure the East Coast's time should come as there are ultimately no winners in the java prices lottery.

I am particularly considering one fantasy that we have now been managing, and wishing effortlessly our heart were true. Cheap clean energy. There isn't such thing it doesn't matter 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 the beginning. Our government familiar with invest in such a thing, but will also to being crippled by politics, we're also crippled by war check here debt and our stupid decision to bail out rich folks. There is reasonable[ish] strength that is cheap with the pump, in comparison on the rest of the globe. This we've got subsidized through regulations, cheap leases, nonexistent environmental regulation; it really is becoming extremely expensive due to its effect on global warming but, maddeningly, there isn't any mental connection to those 'externalized' costs we're beginning to cash inability cost us our very lives. The propane industry genuinely does offer a less carbon emitting fuel, but producers refuse to create any efforts to lessen it's carbon footprint configuring it OUT with the ground. It flares and fracks anytime, allowing methane and open pits of benzene as well as other volatile organic compounds to off-gas into the environment. A drilling site is surely 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 may be rendered unusable by used in drilling. Don't expect anything sensible in the 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 see it, does it produce 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

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