Global meltdown

[watsgw1155]

Make no mistake; anyone who has lived in FL, IL, CO, CA and pretty much any other state has seen a change - especially when it comes to plant life. If people haven't noticed, then they aren't paying attention. Stop listening to the corrupt petroleum-fed Administration in Washington DC and open your eyes.

Global warming is real and not to be taken lightly. We have turned a blind eye toward the situation for far too long - just like Reagan did with AIDS and we all know how that turned out.

[gmdiaz]

Originally Posted by watsgw1155

Make no mistake; anyone who has lived in FL, IL, CO, CA and pretty much any other state has seen a change - especially when it comes to plant life.

So true, we've had terrible droughts and lots of wildfires. The landscape in my neck of the woods is changing for sure. Ironically, I've heard that we can actually expect more snow but that overall the water table will be lower than usual. I expect that to continue.

The forests are thinning out a bit. . .only the toughest, most established trees seem to make it. While this alarms me, we were way over-wooded (that can't be a word!) due to previous year's policies to prevent wildlfires. . .so we were already out of balance going into the climate changes.

The world will balance out in time but oh my God, the effects it will have on all living things. I think we have squandered our most precious gifts & I worry about what the world will be like for future generations. I don't think we have a real clue about the degree of change coming. I think it could well be a real shocker. . .we'll get on the ball at the last moment and. . .

I guess we'll all do what we can and more than we thought we could. . .we'll be as strong as we need to be.

Shame about the USA's lack of leadership. . .and I mean that. What a terrible time in history to have this administration in power. I do not like the direction that we're going.

[Marco]

We're all going to roast and all the folks down at wall street who only care about an increase in net profit and improve efficiency will realize that all their efforts to get a sweet bonus will be all for nothing because their push for efficiency and cost saving procedures requires building new machines, new cheaper paper, new better bulbs, new faster better computers adds to the global warming issue. And where we do put all the old machines, paper, bulbs, and computers?

I was watching this episode on TV about the new green line trains here in New York City. The new trains are fantastic. They're quick, cool in the summer and warm in the winter, and they have the nifty energy saving fluorescent bulbs which provides for great lighting. When it came to the point as to where they dump the old trains. Well that was straight into the Hudson. And their rational was "It will provide a home for the fish in the water" Those guys deserve a medal. What they failed to mention was the metal corrodes. Rust in the water where fish that we eat live. This is the same water that coastal cities purify so we can get some drinking water. And the solution to purify is to get XYZ Company to build some high tech water purifier where more greenhouse gases are made in producing the product than how much the purifier really helps us.

Cheers to capitalism. I love you. You provided me with a way in which to work and earn my way into a better living and a higher tax bracket. You have provided me a working toilet that efficiently and effectively flushes my problems away with the simple push of a lever. It makes my nights in a state of drunken stupor so much easier. You provided the 32" LCD TV in my room that I use to watch the gazelles roam in Africa on discovery channel, anime on the cartoon channel, and some cartoons on the Nikolodeon channel too. You provided the lamps that I use to help my keep my neos healthy and living. You provided me with the insecticides I've used recently to get rid of my mite problem. Some of which went down my sink. Some of which I inhaled because I'm trying to do my piece in helping out the environment.

Cheers to Ben Bernake. I love you and I love what you've done with the federal rate cuts. Your dunce cap is a whole lot taller than mine I am deeply jealous. Maybe you sniffed a whole lot more insecticide than I have. You've done us all a great help. You're my hero.

Cheers to me and you and all the other folks that live in a modern world who can't live without the luxuries we own.

I love my life, capitalism and all, and all the things that make it simple. I'm only a single thread in the complicated tapestry that is this problem of Global Warming. I accept my fate and I live happily knowing that I may have to endure the problems that entail this life of luxury.