| "The rate of change today seems exponentially large compared to previous cycles."
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Its not a cycle..WE have tossed the baby out with the bath water once too many times..
and WE are still doin' it..cause its our screwed up economic way of life..if you can call it that.
I fly, or used to, and over the past 15 years
I have seen the pollution layer go from 3,000 feet to over 8,000 spilling over the Chestnut Ridge..heading East..
In the early morning the layers from the coal power plants glows lime green and you almost pass out going thru it..you can't see this until up at level with it..and it is scary stuff.
10,000 years ago, with the indians still here.. a two mile high ice wall was just north of Pittsburgh...and receeded..our air and water qualities are NOT improving but sadly degrading rapidly from preserving the american way of life..even if it kills everyone..
hell with where the shoreline renews itself..
our lands and foods and air and waters are poisoned..faster each day..Bushie has dropped a bunch of environmental laws to help out the economy cause "it always comes down to the money and those who control it"
====and on feeling insignificant, there's a cave I used to go into, in West Virginia, about 3,000 ft up
and very deep in where a big 900 ft long room has the ceiling covered with shells..the sea floor turned upside down..a sight..and a time to reflect..turn off the lights and go by the glow..Senate-Thorn is the caves' name if any of you get there..it'll twist yer head.
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so on we go..who will save it .?
those who try are now called eco-terrorists.
there are no more monkey-wrenchers.
and we all know where that ends up..
(Message edited by karlfinn on February 09, 2005) |