Friday, March 28, 2008
AN HOUR? GOTTA BE KIDDING.
Another useless gesture.
The kind of thing that some people will do and then feel as though they have taken a big step.
Then, they will flip the lights back on, get into their SUV's and go to the mall for some more mercantile therapy.
I read a great article in the LA Times the other day.
Global Warming: Just Deal With It, Some Scientists Say
This is pretty much my thought.
It is going to get warm. The polar caps are going to get warmer. The water is going to rise.
So stop building next to the water.
Bring the building back inland where it can be protected to some extent.
The animals? Do what you can to preserve them just as we are doing with seeds.
Easy for me to say. I won't be here.
But it seems to me that no one, no one, is really going to pull back their life style until they have to. Until the style required is a little more basic.
The damage is done.
The deal is dealt.
As I sit here typing, Google servers are heating up the universe to make it all happen on the page.
The list of depredations by the human animal is endless.
But human ingenuity is also boundless.
The handwringing, the carbon footprint folly and the rest of the 'gestures' are empty, empty, empty.
The time is coming when reality will set in.
In the meantime, prepare with steps that have some sense to them.
Labels: global warming, nature
