If A Tree Falls

Is it possible it is going to all add up now making sense? The relentless sweltering summer heat, heavy on 2 / 3 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 coffee? Seriously, I want a listing. If so, I don't believe they paid attention growing up or possibly they can be repressing their memories, as it's certainly not just how I remember it.

If the science doesn't allow 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 have now had locally, produce lightening and wind that burns down houses and takes down our most stately shade trees. Does it be the better choice when the tree arrives at the car or house, or individuals no longer shade permitting the children to stay the yard and so they receive third degree burns in the playground slide? I don't keep in mind that. The insect infected, downed and logged trees don't absorb the carbon while they did, but they're just trees and you'll crank up mid-air conditioning and also be inside. This is America why is this so? Your individual rights will be in the constitution through God that also includes comfort.

The shattering fact for me personally is that everyone has no fascination with what makes sense and no involvement in the truth; or should I say so the majority are so cock-sure they know the simple truth. This is truth quite outside of education or investigation and sometimes wrapped up inside the 'money equals brains' mentality. This view was beautifully illustrated by one among my daughter's college friends in the summation of his side of an 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 a lot of cash despite no knowledge and little effort, besides socialibility and staying at the right place with the right time, Despite producing nothing and consuming with abandon these people are certainly not contrite, they can be bitter. They believe they've got a right towards the continuation on this money, a to certainly spend and utilize resources and they also 'conger up' a political view that supports their to easy money, whatever the snow globe economy fantasy that's created for it that occurs, and regardless of the it means into the future. They believe the economy can and really should expand forever.

Cars will be more important versus the highways they drive on, and houses tend to be more important compared to the neighborhoods they stay at home. Taxes represent about bat roosting people a shot to take 'hard' earned money, they being apparently uneducated to where roads and schools and also the virtual order with their civilization originates from. Lack of taxes cracks the veneer of prosperity as visibly as rust and pot holes, so when invisibly as children who can't or won't read, or make arithmetic calculations not to say know or vote their interests. It's a license. not an education must be a realtor or even a car salesman.

A selfish, individual over society, disguised as individual over government, attitude can certainly make the world an arduous, polluted and unholy location to live.
And that's just about where we have been. Is it possible because of it to be the better choice?
The car- ahh- the automobile. The squeeze poor can look middle class plus 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 for first time immigrants or teenage drivers or socialists. Cars are deemed to want comfort at any cost. They must management of the mountain passes and spare your children the embarrassment of aging. For these cars we've the directly to cheap gas. No one can make us get free from our cars and walk.

Our public lands aren't almost experiencing untrammeled beauty and wildlife the lands should also be open to the internal combustion contrivance around. Owning and worries, a snowmobile, a4- wheeler a jet ski, is with the bill of rights. Somewhere missing would be the bill of responsibilities. Also missing is an involvement in what is sensible, sustainable. I guess the question to your masters on the universe the 2% who may have corralled 60% with all the different money is. If you're so rich, why shouldn't you be smart?

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

But although the rich were smart enough to rig the sport 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 together with the home in La Jolla is bombarded with radiation from Fukishima and has now bought a house which will be underwater, literally, in not many years. He can go on to Florida but his seafood are going to be contaminated with oil and dispersants. It's too hot to become outside so from his air-conditioned family room 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 with the 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 from the Ingmar Bergman film, 'The Seventh Seal', that may place in Europe throughout the plague. In an effort to prevent the Black Death the nobility of Europe retreat to barricade themselves of their castles. The rats and fleas were ready and awaiting them. Bergman's survivors were roaming gypsies that stop the plague since they can be mobile and free'but obviously, equally ignorant with the cause on the death since the nobles.

Ignorance, community . has it's bliss, gets one nowhere in your world. The meek may yet inherit the world, nonetheless they may not website wish 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 the bottom shrimp catches it shows the catastrophe, and not the results. Sometimes the final results are not even measured just as Fukishima. Have we have you ever heard about the radiation that drifted together with the jet stream straight to your West coast then on being caught by my very own west side with 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 unique streak of bad luck; without the need of effect, no cause; No climatic change, nor not enough that' anti-capitalist regulation'. No recognition of corporate control over environmental laws that may safe guard the resources we have to live; no knowning that 'if you poison the world the world will poison you'. Will a tree need to drop on your own head for doing this to 'hit home'?

All of us have to come to grips with your excessive, entitled consumption; The most complete blinders to this particular are within the Eastern seaboard, This area was fortunate to possess its oil and gas and coal extracted west with the Mississippi, for your most part, until the gas main discovery within an area supplying the mineral water to New York City. It is exciting to discover the extraction method know as fracking come up with 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 may be on your head. Hopefully the actual 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 should come as there are ultimately no winners in the coffee lottery.

I am particularly thinking about one fantasy that we've been coping with, and wishing wonderful our heart were true. Cheap clean energy. There isn't such thing it doesn't matter how many ads the truth is on TV. There is clean energy, however it is not cheap. Wind and solar require capital investment at the start. Our government accustomed to invest in this kind of thing, and 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] souped up that is cheap for the pump, in comparison towards the rest of the entire world. This we've subsidized through regulations, cheap leases, nonexistent environmental regulation; it's becoming very costly due to its effect on coffee but, maddeningly, there isn't any mental connection to those 'externalized' costs were beginning to spend the money for inability cost us our very lives. The propane industry will offer a less carbon emitting fuel, but producers refuse for making any efforts to lessen it's carbon footprint received it OUT with the ground. It flares and fracks when needed, allowing methane and open pits of benzene and also other volatile organic compounds to off-gas into the environment. A drilling site can be an ugly, smelly dangerous place. They don't call the employees rough necks for nothing. And keep in mind that we will live to regret the numerous gallons of water that continues to be rendered unusable by easy use in drilling. Don't expect anything sensible in the extraction industry, or politicians. I could continue but why bother Get ready for more chaos.

When a tree falls within the forest and there is absolutely no one there to listen for it, does it generate a sound?
When a tree falls with your head, does anybody wonder why?

Barb Coddington 203 3rd st Glenwood Spgs. Co 81601 970-0-945-9462

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