[at-l] An Inconvenient Truth - & my Mom

[Carol Donaldson]

I haven't seen the movie, probably won't and figure that when it's time to go, it's time to go and if one catastrophe doesn't get me, another one will eventually.  You can legally avoid State taxes, but not death.  

Here's a thought from my mother, well, she didn't originate the initial thought and probably not the concluding thought, but that's okay.

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."  (We know my mother didn't come up with that one.)  For every bomb some country explodes underground or drops on the earth somewhere, for every rocket a country sends into space, there is an 'opposite and equal reaction.'  The "smart bombs" hit the earth, reverberated down to the core and the 'sound waves' had to be released somewhere -- so maybe through an underwater volcano and tsunami -- maybe through an above ground volcano -- the reason we "notice" that the earth is "warming faster" in the past 15 to 25 years is because we're exploding more bombs, sending more rockets through the earth's atmosphere (could this cause a shift in weather patterns?), pouring more asphalt, digging deeper into the earth, etc, etc.   AND we have more scientific instruments to read.  A one one-thousandth of temperature change is noticed and some alarmist starts running around screaming "the sky is falling, the sky is falling."

I dare say that you and I will be long gone before the "sky falls" at the current rate of change.

Like Shane, I reduce, reuse, recycle.  The "problem" is that Shane and I and others are probably one one-thousandth of the earth's population who do so.  We can walk the walk while talking the talk, but the majority of people don't care until it affects them personally.  And it will probably be many generations from now before global warming affects people on a personal level.  And we won't be around to say "I told you so!"

All we can do is try to influence our families and friends.  And it's not even easy to reach hikers with "leave no trace" ethics, so the task ahead of us is formidable.   

"Even if others don't (reduce, reuse, recycle), it doesn't mean we should quit doing our best (to protect, preserve, and defend the environment)."

Coosa