If A Tree Falls

Is it possible it'll all add up 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 coffee? Seriously, I want an inventory. If so, I don't believe they paid attention since a child or possibly they may be repressing their memories, because it's certainly not just how 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, regarding the price of food, energy, insurance, increasing? That's a reality. The two inches in 30-minute rainstorms, which we now have 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 hits the car or house, or should there be no longer shade to allow for the children to remain the yard plus they receive third degree burns through the playground slide? I don't bear in mind. The insect infected, downed and logged trees will no longer absorb the carbon when they did, but these are just trees and you could crank up air conditioning and remain inside. This is America why not? Your individual rights will be in the constitution through God that has comfort.

The shattering fact for me personally is that everyone has no involvement in what makes sense and no curiosity about the truth; or should I say so the majority are so cock-sure they know the simple truth. This is truth quite separate from education or investigation and often 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 any 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 coming to the right place on the right time, Despite producing nothing and consuming with abandon these people will not be contrite, they're bitter. They believe there is a right for the continuation of the money, a straight away to spend and rehearse resources and in addition they 'conger up' a political view that supports their straight away to easy money, whatever the snow globe economy fantasy that had been created for it that occurs, and whatever it means in the future. They believe the economy can and must expand forever.

Cars are definitely more important compared to the highways they drive on, and houses are definitely more important compared to the neighborhoods they stand it. 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 with their civilization arises 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 must be a realtor or possibly a car salesman.

A selfish, individual over society, disguised as individual over government, attitude can make the world an arduous, polluted and unholy destination for a live.
And that's just about where we have been. Is it possible for doing this to sound right?
The car- ahh- your vehicle. The squeeze poor can look middle class as well as the middle class can look wealthy. You can drive your financial statement across the road. The car may be the coarse, indelible meaning of status. Small cars are for brand spanking new immigrants or teenage drivers or socialists. Cars are deemed to wish comfort at any cost. They must management of the mountain passes and spare the youngsters the embarrassment of aging. For these cars we've got the to cheap gas. No one can make us escape our cars and walk.

Our public lands aren't almost experiencing untrammeled beauty and wildlife the lands also needs to be open to your internal combustion contrivance available. Owning and driving a vehicle, 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 involvement in what is sensible, sustainable. I guess the question to your masters in the universe the 2% who may have corralled 60% of all money is. If you're so rich, why can't you be smart?

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

But although the rich were smart enough to rig the experience to gain the treasure, they've got fowled the nest in their own business 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 while using home in La Jolla may be bombarded with radiation from Fukishima and has now bought a house that is to be underwater, literally, in not read more many years. He can relocate 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 room he can watch dead baby dolphins wash up for 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 remaining, 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 effort to prevent the Black Death the nobility of Europe retreat to barricade themselves inside their castles. The rats in addition to their fleas were ready and anticipating them. Bergman's survivors were roaming gypsies that prevent the plague since they can be mobile and free'but naturally, in the same way ignorant in the cause in the death as being the nobles.

Ignorance, community . has it's bliss, gets one nowhere in this world. The meek may yet inherit our planet, nevertheless they may not desire to. The mainstream media, shows us people starving in Somalia, shows us the tornados, the oil spills, the floods, the nuclear power plant meltdowns, however, not the people still in tents or trailers, not the lower shrimp catches it shows the catastrophe, although not the results. Sometimes the outcomes 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 then on to become caught by my west side in 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 an exotic 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 charge of environmental laws that may safe guard the resources we should live; no knowing that 'if you poison our planet the planet earth will poison you'. Will a tree need to drop on your own head for this to 'hit home'?

All of us should 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, to the most part, until the gas main discovery inside an area supplying the normal water to New York City. It continues to be exciting to discover 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 away from sight and soon outside of mind until they're 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 arrive as there are ultimately no winners in the climatic change lottery.

I am particularly thinking about one fantasy that we've got been coping with, and wishing effortlessly our heart were true. Cheap clean energy. There isn't such thing regardless of how many ads the thing is on TV. There is clean energy, but it's not cheap. Wind and solar require capital investment in advance. Our government familiar with invest in such a thing, but additionally to being crippled by politics, we're crippled by war debt and our stupid decision to bail out rich folks. There is reasonable[ish] strength that is cheap with the pump, in comparison for the rest of the globe. This we've subsidized through regulations, cheap leases, nonexistent environmental regulation; it's becoming expensive due to its effect on java prices but, maddeningly, there's no 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 on the ground. It flares and fracks anytime, allowing methane and open pits of benzene and also other volatile organic compounds to off-gas into the environment. A drilling site is undoubtedly an ugly, smelly dangerous place. They don't call the staff rough necks for nothing. And trust me we will live to regret the a lot of gallons of water that may be rendered unusable by easy use in drilling. Don't expect anything sensible from your extraction industry, or politicians. I could carry on but why bother Get ready for more chaos.

When a tree falls from the forest and there's no one there to see it, does it generate a sound?
When a tree falls on the head, does anybody wonder why?

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

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