If A Tree Falls

Is it possible it is going to all get together now making 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 gets raging runoffs; the droughts and floods that affect our food production. Is there a one that can seriously deny global warming? Seriously, I want an inventory. If so, I don't believe they paid attention growing up or possibly they can be repressing their memories, which is certainly not the best way I remember it.

If the science doesn't cause you to be 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, getting larger? 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 add up when the tree hits the car or house, or individuals no longer shade to allow for 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 since they did, but they're just trees and you could crank up the oxygen conditioning and grow inside. This is America why is this so? Your individual rights are usually in the constitution and also by God that has comfort.

The shattering fact in my opinion is that folks have no involvement in what makes sense and no curiosity about the truth; or should I say so lots of people are so cock-sure they know the simple truth. This is truth quite separate from education or investigation and quite often wrapped up from the '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 an 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 ton of money despite no knowledge and little effort, apart from socialibility and staying in the right place for the right time, Despite producing nothing and consuming with abandon these people usually are not contrite, they may be bitter. They believe these people have a right to your continuation of the money, a directly to spend and make use of resources plus they 'conger up' a political view that supports their to certainly easy money, whatever the snow globe economy fantasy that has been created for it that occur, and it doesn't matter what it means in the future. They believe the economy can and will expand forever.

Cars are definitely more important as opposed to highways they drive on, and houses tend to be important versus the neighborhoods they stay at home. Taxes represent to people an effort to take 'hard' earned money, they being apparently uneducated to where roads and schools plus the virtual order with their civilization derives 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 should be a realtor or even a car salesman.

A selfish, individual over society, disguised as individual over government, attitude can certainly make the world a challenging, polluted and unholy destination to live.
And that's virtually where we're. Is it possible correctly to be the better choice?
The car- ahh- the auto. The squeeze poor can seem middle class along with the middle class can look wealthy. You can drive your financial statement across the road. The car would 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 expense. 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 should also be open to your internal combustion contrivance around the world. Owning and worries, a snowmobile, a4- wheeler a jet ski, is incorporated in the bill of rights. Somewhere missing would be the bill of responsibilities. Also missing is an desire for what is sensible, sustainable. I guess the question on the masters from the universe the 2% who may have corralled 60% of all of the money is. If you're so rich, why can't you be smart?

What is missing is a great sports analogy to clarify the material inequity. It's such as the middle of an football game, , they switched to hockey. Not only do you lack skates there isn't a 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 for that game And the sport 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 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 using the home in La Jolla may be bombarded with radiation from Fukishima and contains bought a house that is to be underwater, literally, in not many years. He can turn to Florida but his seafood will probably be contaminated with oil and dispersants. It's too hot for being outside so from his air-conditioned family area 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 for that natural gas 'wild-catter' that fought every proposed climate, water and pipe line regulation, and flaunted the remaining, to generate his fortune.

It reminds me from the Ingmar Bergman film, 'The Seventh Seal', that can take place in Europe through the plague. In an effort 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 anticipating them. Bergman's survivors were roaming gypsies that steer clear of the plague when you are mobile and free'but needless to say, in the same way ignorant with the cause with the death because the nobles.

Ignorance, although it has it's bliss, gets one nowhere in this world. The meek may yet inherit the world, 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 time frame shrimp catches it shows the catastrophe, and not the results. Sometimes the outcome are not even measured like Fukishima. Have we have you ever heard about the radiation that drifted with all the jet stream straight for the West coast and on for being caught by my west side on the Rockies; radiation that insinuates itself into every living thing. Sometimes the read more photo 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 having effect, no cause; No our planets atmosphere, nor insufficient that' anti-capitalist regulation'. No recognition of corporate control over environmental laws that may safe guard the resources we should instead live; no knowing that 'if you poison the world our planet will poison you'. Will a tree should drop on the head for this to 'hit home'?

All of us ought to come to grips with your excessive, entitled consumption; The most complete blinders to the present are around the Eastern seaboard, This area was fortunate to own its oil and gas and coal extracted west with the Mississippi, with the most part, until the gas discovery in the area supplying the normal water to New York City. It has become exciting to find out 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 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 along with the floods in Missouri I'm sure the East Coast's time may come as there are ultimately no winners in the global warming lottery.

I am particularly enthusiastic about one fantasy that we've been experiencing, and wishing with all of our heart were true. Cheap clean energy. There is not any such thing regardless of how many ads the truth is on TV. There is clean energy, yet it's not cheap. Wind and solar require capital investment in the beginning. Our government familiar with invest in this type of thing, but additionally to being crippled by politics, were 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 for the rest of the globe. This we've subsidized through regulations, cheap leases, nonexistent environmental regulation; it really is becoming expensive due to its effect on climatic change but, maddeningly, there is absolutely no mental connection about bat roosting 'externalized' costs we're beginning to spend the money for inability cost us our very lives. The propane industry truly does offer a less carbon emitting fuel, but producers refuse for making any efforts to cut back it's carbon footprint setting it up OUT from the ground. It flares and fracks when needed, allowing methane and open pits of benzene along with other volatile organic compounds to off-gas into mid-air. 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 a lot of gallons of water that is rendered unusable by utilization 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 inside the forest and there isn't any one there to see 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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