If A Tree Falls

Is it possible it's going to all bond now to make sense? The relentless sweltering summer heat, heavy on 60 % of the nation. The towns ravaged by monster tornadoes. The winters with extraordinary snow that becomes raging runoffs; the droughts and floods that affect our food production. Is there a one who can seriously deny global warming? Seriously, I want an email list. If so, I don't believe they paid attention since a child or possibly they may be repressing their memories, as it's certainly not the best way I remember it.

If the science doesn't cause you to believe surely the chaos is convincing. And even if all you have time for is work and sleep, have you detected the price of food, energy, insurance, getting larger? That's a reality. The 2 " in 30-minute rainstorms, which we've got had locally, produce lightening and wind that burns down houses and takes down our most stately shade trees. Does it seem sensible when the tree visits the car or house, or individuals no longer shade allowing the children to be the yard plus they receive third degree burns from your playground slide? I don't bear in mind. The insect infected, downed and logged trees no more absorb the carbon since they did, but they can be just trees and you will crank up air conditioning and grow inside. This is America why not? Your individual rights have been in the constitution and also by God that features comfort.

The shattering fact personally is that everyone has no involvement in what makes sense and no curiosity about the truth; or should I say so most are so cock-sure they know the facts. This is truth quite separate from education or investigation and quite often wrapped up inside the 'money equals brains' mentality. This view was beautifully illustrated by certainly one of my daughter's college friends in the summation of his side of the 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 ton of money despite no knowledge and little effort, apart from socialibility and coming to the right place with the right time, Despite producing nothing and consuming with abandon these people will not be contrite, they may be bitter. They believe the masai have a right on the continuation on this money, a to certainly spend and rehearse resources and so they 'conger up' a political view that supports their to easy money, whatever the snow globe economy fantasy that had been created for it that occurs, and no matter what it means money for hard times. They believe the economy can and will expand forever.

Cars will be more important compared to highways they drive on, and houses are definitely more important as opposed to neighborhoods they stand it. Taxes represent to the telltale people an effort to take 'hard' earned money, they being apparently uneducated to where roads and schools along with the virtual order of the 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 not to say know or vote their interests. It's a license. not an education had to be a realtor or perhaps a car salesman.

A selfish, individual over society, disguised as individual over government, attitude could make the world a hard, polluted and unholy destination to live.
And that's basically where we're also. Is it possible because of it to sound right?
The car- ahh- the auto. The placed the poor can be displayed middle class and also the middle class can look wealthy. You can drive your financial statement across the road. The car may be the coarse, indelible concept 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 the kids the embarrassment old. For these cars we've the to certainly cheap gas. No one can make us get rid of our cars and walk.

Our public lands aren't pretty much experiencing untrammeled beauty and wildlife the lands need to be open to your internal combustion contrivance around the world. Owning and the worry, 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 curiosity about what is sensible, sustainable. I guess the question on the masters on the universe the 2% with corralled 60% of all the so-called money is. If you're so rich, why shouldn't you be smart?

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

But although rich were smart enough to rig the experience 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 may just make it to Dick Cheney's house in Jackson. The banker with all the home in La Jolla is bombarded with radiation from Fukishima and contains bought a house which is to be underwater, literally, in very few years. He can proceed to Florida but his seafood is going to be contaminated with oil and dispersants. It's too hot to become outside so from his air-conditioned lounge 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 for your natural gas 'wild-catter' that fought every proposed climate, water and pipe line regulation, and flaunted the others, to generate his fortune.

It reminds me on the Ingmar Bergman film, 'The Seventh Seal', that may place in Europe throughout the plague. In an endeavor to stay away from 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 stay away from the plague when you're mobile and free'but certainly, just like ignorant with the cause with the death since the nobles.

Ignorance, even though it has it's bliss, gets one nowhere inside our world. The meek may yet inherit the planet earth, however they may not 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, yet not the people still in tents or trailers, not the bottom shrimp catches it shows the catastrophe, however, not the results. Sometimes the final results are not even measured as with Fukishima. Have we have you ever heard about the radiation that drifted while using jet stream straight to your West coast and on being caught by my own, personal west side from 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 silly streak of bad luck; without having effect, no cause; No climate change, nor absence of that' anti-capitalist regulation'. No recognition of corporate control over environmental laws that can safe guard the resources we must live; no if you know 'if you poison planet earth the planet earth will poison you'. Will a tree should drop in your head because of it to 'hit home'?

All of us must come to grips with this excessive, entitled consumption; The most complete blinders for this are around the Eastern seaboard, This area was fortunate to obtain its oil and gas and coal extracted west on the Mississippi, to the most part, until the propane discovery inside an area supplying the normal water to New York City. It is exciting to determine the extraction method know as fracking come up with a blip within the environmental radar. Otherwise the catastrophes of flood, or drought or tornado or hurricane are beyond sight and soon away from mind until these are on your head. Hopefully simple 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 climatic change lottery.

I am particularly serious about one fantasy that we have now been experiencing, and wishing with all of our heart were true. Cheap clean energy. There isn't such thing however many ads you observe on TV. There is clean energy, however it is not cheap. Wind and solar require capital investment beforehand. Our government employed to invest in such a thing, but will also to being crippled by politics, we have been 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 to your rest of the globe. This we've got subsidized through regulations, cheap leases, nonexistent environmental regulation; it website can be becoming extremely expensive due to its effect on global warming but, maddeningly, there isn't any mental connection to 'externalized' costs were beginning to give the inability might cost us our very lives. The propane industry genuinely does offer a less carbon emitting fuel, but producers refuse to produce any efforts to scale back it's carbon footprint configuring it OUT from the ground. It flares and fracks any time they want, allowing methane and open pits of benzene and also other volatile organic compounds to off-gas into air. A drilling site is definitely an ugly, smelly dangerous place. They don't call the staff rough necks for nothing. And trust me we will live to regret the numerous gallons of water that continues to be rendered unusable by use within drilling. Don't expect anything sensible on the extraction industry, or politicians. I could continue but why bother Get ready for more chaos.

When a tree falls inside forest and there isn't any one there to know 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

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