so today, uncle Ralph is trying to finish plumbing in the bathroom. always out of something even if he has been at the store 10 times, now he needs more copper pipe. meanwhile we haven't any water and i for one am filthy. he does work hard though, i shouldn't complain. but i do....not to him.
the ocean is roaring today, our weather has been so weird. 30 yrs ago i remember being told that "global warming" would be taking effect about now, and that person who taught me that seems to have been correct.
though back then the idea was put forth as the greenhouse effect i think. 30 yrs, long time to remember. or maybe the greenhouse effect would eventually have these repercussions if we didn't stop all the aerosol sprays, plastic manufacturing, etc. i do think that when those discussions were first started, our country went to plastic bags in the grocery stores, and no-one listened to the ramifications of that choice.
always the money thing, cheaper to make the bags and who cares about the environment. of course, the plastic bags were supposed to be a way to circumvent our waste of trees, but evidently we have tripped over a 5 dollar bill to pick up a dime.
aerosol spray's were stopped, and other forms of manufacture that were supposed to harm our environment, we went to smaller cars, better emissions, less impact on natural resoursessupposedly.
now we have massive suvs and the like and we suddenly have a fuel crisis.
remember when we had gas wars back 30 yrs ago? then, too soon after we had all the foreign small cars on the market and all the u.s. based car makers were manufacturing small cars so that we could save our fuel resources? remember? what the hell happened?
why are we still in danger today from global warming, because, and of course only my opinion, we did not cause this problem. sure, our behavior towards our planet has not been great, but do you honestly believe we caused this in just over 200 yrs?
this planet has gone through many changes, many cycles, and we were not around in any numbers most of the time to have affected any of those changes.
there is adequate evidence that the cycles this planet has gone through such as the dinosaurs dieing [and from what?] volcanoes erupting and causing atmospheric changes, meteors striking, causing more atmospheric changes, earthquakes from plates shifting, have nothing to do with mankind but with the normal cycle of life on a planet.
not to say we shouldn't recycle, drive less, concern ourselves more with saving our planet , we should. but all the controversy over our role in this crisis needs to be really looked at, and i mean thoughorly. what is really causing all these changes?
i was brought up to not use pesticides, to compost, recycle, burn what needs to be burned, never plastic or other foreign materials, be as earth friendly as possible by a man who was not a hippie or a fanatic of any kind, just a home-grown farm boy who belived we are responsible for our actions toward our earth, yet i'm sure i use products that should be banned, materials that we can not get rid of, waste food on a regular basis, and generally do not support earth as i should.
yet, i am positive that the person who taught me about global warming 30 yrs ago had the right thought, we are not totally responsible, and need to look to the future and prepare for this to be a way of life, something that is in the natural way of living on this planet.
we haven't come close to even figuring out how we all got here in the first place....
i've read many many sci-fi books on that subject, but who really knows? i really loved the well of souls series, made more sense than most.
anyway, what are we really doing to change the situation, and can we?
this process was in place before we ever started manufacturing our chemicals and additives and whatever else we have that people are using to blame human kind for this current situation.
we should all do the best we can, be careful in our use of availabe chemicals, be careful with what resources we have and try hard to educate our children of the fact that there may be a different living situation in the future.