Bagpipes playing in my heart
It's the
Coming of the Greens
Grow plants - trees, algae, whatever, just as long as it's green.
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http://sciencedaily.com/videos/2007/0407-possible_fix_for_global_warming.htm
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http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11 /091111083055.htm
"...recommends slowing...the “green loss effect” through the planting of millions of trees in urbanized areas and through the protection and regeneration of global forests outside of urbanized regions. Forested areas provide the combined benefits of directly cooling
the atmosphere and of absorbing greenhouse gases, leading to additional cooling. Green architecture in cities, including green roofs and more highly reflective construction materials, would further contribute to a
slowing of warming rates. Stone envisions local and state governments taking the lead in addressing the land use drivers of climate change, while the federal government takes the lead in implementing carbon
reduction initiatives..."
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Kickstart the Economy with Green
Some say we're recovering from the Wall Street crash. They're wrong. The environmental changes coming are so drastic they will make impossible any return to the "good old days" when the rich got richer and the poor got poorer and the rest of nature just got the hell out of the way or died. This time we human beings - all of us - are in for a tough ride. We never did succeed in subjugating nature, and the Earth itself is starting to make the point by giving us the challenge of our lives.
Take ozone layer thinning, for instance. We deluded ourselves into thinking we had that problem about licked by banning certain chemicals. And it was getting better. But keeping the heat in the lower atmosphere makes the upper atmosphere colder, and ozone-destroying chemical reactions in the upper atmosphere are faster at colder temperatures. So the greenhouse effect is making the ozone layer thinning problem worse also.
How many economists have, do you think, factored into their predictions the interaction between the ozone layer thinning and the greenhouse effect? The economic effects of World War 1 and the 1929 stock market crash and World War 2 and the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion and the 9/11 attacks and the Katrina hurricane and so many other disasters were all unexpected by people thinking inside the box of the financial markets. But they were all predictable had people not planted their own heads so firmly in the sand. When we put on our tunnel vision glasses by defining ourselves as separate from each other, and so fight with increasingly advanced tools, bigger tragedies can be expected. Throughout our history as a species, a moment's pause from our relatively little battles would have shown that we're steadily losing the war as a whole. The Earth's ecosystem is collapsing. We're challenged by historic
bigger-than-ever catastrophes. And - because we keep thinking inside the box in so many ways - we still keep going the same way.
The only way we have a chance to save our own, our loved ones, and our children's lives and futures is by working together to reverse course as fast as we can. What am I talking about? Stop mowing lawns. Refuse to buy another car built to run on anything other than biofuel or electricity. Stop filling landfills and waterways and (ultimately) oceans with pet, livestock and human organic waste. Stop manufacturing plastic and make bioplastic instead. Put white collar criminals - such as those pushing new and even more dangerous weaponry - into incarceration to stop them from hurting more people and other life forms. Start manufacturing composting toilets. Stop chopping down trees. Stop trimming trees unless you absolutely have to. Stop buying fertilizers, pesticides, and lawn mowers. Let those plants grow, wherever they grow, and stop calling the unexpected ones weeds. We need all the plant growth we can nurture to suck up the excess carbon
dioxide in the planet's atmosphere. And we need to stop putting more carbon dioxide and other pollutants there. We don't need the bloody nice and neat lawns; let them grow back to woodsy areas. Stop killing animals except when you absolutely have to. Each and every plant and animal on Earth has a reason for being and a contribution it can make to the ecosystem as a whole. Encourage a variety of life forms to keep each other in check so that one species such as the salmonella or cockroach or bedbug or rat doesn't become overbalanced. Make our elected representatives encourage energy conservation and wind and solar, and make them stop subsidizing dirty coal and other fossil fuels, and dirty and unsafe nuclear. We are in a world of trouble at this point in history, and what Wall Street is doing at the moment hardly matters. The markets won't work at all if we get the superdroughts and superstorms and massive heat waves and forest fires and
famines and epidemics that are coming if we continue treating our fellow life forms - plant and animals - as just things to be used.
We each can (need) to go full steam ahead to grow as much plant life as possible - to absorb the excess co2. And our economic development decisionmakers need to encourage biological processes that use carbon dioxide to produce food and fuel.
Oh, and happy holidays. Worse comes to worse, even if we do go ahead and extinct ourselves along with all the other species we've been killing off, the Universe is even bigger than the Earth and we haven't figured how to destroy that...yet.
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Coming of the Greens
Grow plants - trees, algae, whatever, just as long as it's green.
======
http://sciencedaily.com/videos/2007/0407-possible_fix_for_global_warming.htm
======
http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11 /091111083055.htm
"...recommends slowing...the “green loss effect” through the planting of millions of trees in urbanized areas and through the protection and regeneration of global forests outside of urbanized regions. Forested areas provide the combined benefits of directly cooling
the atmosphere and of absorbing greenhouse gases, leading to additional cooling. Green architecture in cities, including green roofs and more highly reflective construction materials, would further contribute to a
slowing of warming rates. Stone envisions local and state governments taking the lead in addressing the land use drivers of climate change, while the federal government takes the lead in implementing carbon
reduction initiatives..."
======
Kickstart the Economy with Green
Some say we're recovering from the Wall Street crash. They're wrong. The environmental changes coming are so drastic they will make impossible any return to the "good old days" when the rich got richer and the poor got poorer and the rest of nature just got the hell out of the way or died. This time we human beings - all of us - are in for a tough ride. We never did succeed in subjugating nature, and the Earth itself is starting to make the point by giving us the challenge of our lives.
Take ozone layer thinning, for instance. We deluded ourselves into thinking we had that problem about licked by banning certain chemicals. And it was getting better. But keeping the heat in the lower atmosphere makes the upper atmosphere colder, and ozone-destroying chemical reactions in the upper atmosphere are faster at colder temperatures. So the greenhouse effect is making the ozone layer thinning problem worse also.
How many economists have, do you think, factored into their predictions the interaction between the ozone layer thinning and the greenhouse effect? The economic effects of World War 1 and the 1929 stock market crash and World War 2 and the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion and the 9/11 attacks and the Katrina hurricane and so many other disasters were all unexpected by people thinking inside the box of the financial markets. But they were all predictable had people not planted their own heads so firmly in the sand. When we put on our tunnel vision glasses by defining ourselves as separate from each other, and so fight with increasingly advanced tools, bigger tragedies can be expected. Throughout our history as a species, a moment's pause from our relatively little battles would have shown that we're steadily losing the war as a whole. The Earth's ecosystem is collapsing. We're challenged by historic
bigger-than-ever catastrophes. And - because we keep thinking inside the box in so many ways - we still keep going the same way.
The only way we have a chance to save our own, our loved ones, and our children's lives and futures is by working together to reverse course as fast as we can. What am I talking about? Stop mowing lawns. Refuse to buy another car built to run on anything other than biofuel or electricity. Stop filling landfills and waterways and (ultimately) oceans with pet, livestock and human organic waste. Stop manufacturing plastic and make bioplastic instead. Put white collar criminals - such as those pushing new and even more dangerous weaponry - into incarceration to stop them from hurting more people and other life forms. Start manufacturing composting toilets. Stop chopping down trees. Stop trimming trees unless you absolutely have to. Stop buying fertilizers, pesticides, and lawn mowers. Let those plants grow, wherever they grow, and stop calling the unexpected ones weeds. We need all the plant growth we can nurture to suck up the excess carbon
dioxide in the planet's atmosphere. And we need to stop putting more carbon dioxide and other pollutants there. We don't need the bloody nice and neat lawns; let them grow back to woodsy areas. Stop killing animals except when you absolutely have to. Each and every plant and animal on Earth has a reason for being and a contribution it can make to the ecosystem as a whole. Encourage a variety of life forms to keep each other in check so that one species such as the salmonella or cockroach or bedbug or rat doesn't become overbalanced. Make our elected representatives encourage energy conservation and wind and solar, and make them stop subsidizing dirty coal and other fossil fuels, and dirty and unsafe nuclear. We are in a world of trouble at this point in history, and what Wall Street is doing at the moment hardly matters. The markets won't work at all if we get the superdroughts and superstorms and massive heat waves and forest fires and
famines and epidemics that are coming if we continue treating our fellow life forms - plant and animals - as just things to be used.
We each can (need) to go full steam ahead to grow as much plant life as possible - to absorb the excess co2. And our economic development decisionmakers need to encourage biological processes that use carbon dioxide to produce food and fuel.
Oh, and happy holidays. Worse comes to worse, even if we do go ahead and extinct ourselves along with all the other species we've been killing off, the Universe is even bigger than the Earth and we haven't figured how to destroy that...yet.
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