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  • From: Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Global warming land work
  • Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:30:14 -0500

Terry Wereb <frostedacres@gmail.com> wrote:    I think we all, as individuals, can do something small to  help alleviate the accelerated global warming situation. So the Atlantic Ocean has lost  some of it's ability to act as a carbon sink--make ways for carbon to be absorbed on your own property. Water shortages?  practice methods that conserve water. (water vapor is considered a 'greenhouse gas') Don't let anybare soil show through on your property if there is a way to avoid it-- cover it with SOMETHING that is growing- not concrete or asphalt.  Insist to your lawmakers that people do not need to  build McMansions- that a 800 SF home is plenty of room for a single person, or even a couple( with children!) 
   
   I learned in one science class, that global warming is the predecessor to a huge 'ice age'-- as the planet 'dies' it will start to cool, even to the point of massive glaciers world wide. Then, volcanic activity will spew out the gasses needed to help  'warm up' the Earth, melting the ice and snow, and life 'returns' to the newly exposed lands. Of course, it is the change in weather patterns that helps move all this process--as the temperate regions warm, the  overall air flow reverses, taking warm air to the poles, and bringing cooler air to the equatorial regions. 
   
  But to shrug your shoulders and say "nothing we can do about it" is fatalistic- take the small things, and it will add up--
   
  Terry
  Frosted Acres
Good points, Terry.

I can go both ways on the issue, however. I am fatalistic in the sense that I think the changes will come hard and fast and violently, so the work we do to preserve some soil and methods and seeds and children who understand these things is the most important work we can do. 
Insisting that taxes be changed to consumption taxes instead of consumption-encouraging income taxes is also important.

"Any true environmentalist would commit suicide." - unknown

You know you are in trouble when the government has a meeting called "Interagency Forum for Infrastructure Protection", and one of the topics is “The Global Threat Puzzle: Understanding the Rhizome Threat”

Rhizomes are such a foreign concept to the System that the word is even used to describe something terrible.
Soil organisms have been elevated to a threat level indicator. When you start extra-government networks who want to live without the hierarchy, you become a 'threat'.

If you aren't angry, you aren't paying attention.
 If you aren't terrified, you aren't watching enough TV.

Dan
Nature Creek






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