Tackling Environmental Issues While Drowning in a Sea of Change
June 28th 2009 12:46
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
~Stephen Jay Gould
For every generation there has been an existence of common dogma.
Common dogma based on popular opinion and some based on scientific fact warped into one person’s perspective over that of another.
In an age where information lacked accessibility rumor and innuendo often found itself replacing common sense.
Warped into the social causes of the time theories like all the planets in the universe revolving around Earth, a race of people thought to be inferior to another because of the color of their skin, the thought that travel into the ocean would cause an explorer to fall off the edge of the Earth and the belief of being able to do whatever we wanted to our planet without consequence all passed for scientific fact during different periods of our historical record.
When left to our own devices popular opinion and innuendo will lead us astray every time.
Decade after Decade fringe scientists from outside of the box of popular opinion screamed from the roof tops about the dangers to come in our environment.
It was only when the proof broke through the clouds in a ray of realities based around the destruction caused to our planet that the court of public opinion finally took notice.
When the sky’s of our major cities filled with smog and soot.
When the Polar Ice Cap’s began disappearing and animals were left stranded.
When the mercury levels in our Ocean began destroying entire communities of wildlife.
When the hole in the Ozone layer was discovered and the realization swept over the world that there was nothing we could do to repair the damage already caused.
The evidence is strong and the worldwide rise in temperatures could be attributed the exit of the current Ice Age but let’s not blind ourselves with scientific theory and ignore the damage we have done to this planet as a species.
The rise of the Industrial Age with a blind eye to the care and maintenance of the Earth has played a strong part in all of the new dangers we are witnessing in the world and the disasters to come.
In an age where movies show us images that are so close to everything reality should be we have become desensitized when our government lays down reports of cataclysmic events to come.
Floods, hurricanes, rising temperatures, tornado’s, volcano’s, melting of the polar ice caps, oceans boiling creatures and most of the world underwater all top the list but these were dangers we had already been warned about long before Election “08”.
The winds of change are here and our government is forced to take action with an administration that was “hand picked” by the court of public opinion to fix all of our problems.
The thing that amazes me about trillion dollar proposal’s to fix the environment and bail outs laced with “green” initiatives is within the fact that we were told for decades that the environment could be fixed if everyone worked together by doing little things in their lives.
Little things like car pooling and using recyclable materials have been at the forefront of conversation for decades and were labeled as our duty to do so for the betterment of our world.
HOV lanes and metro transit systems were beefed up across the nation in billion dollar initiatives while we all let out a sigh of relief while pointing the finger and laughing at our neighbor for buying a funny looking Hybrid vehicle.
When the oil companies and speculators stepped on our throats through actions of self preservation we did all the things we needed to do in cutting back driving and placing mandates on American car companies to change the way they do business.
These reactionary things were not done to help the enviorment but set the stage for environmental intiatives to hit the forefront of conversation.
These mandates lead to collapse of certain companies that did not answer the call decades before when the world needed it but also gave fuel to our current spending spree in federal government.
A spending spree that has the shell of rebellion against previous do nothing sessions of Congress from past generations and says it’s ok to mount up huge debts to countries who’s idea of democracy is using tanks to run over men and women in the streets who stand up to a government of absolute power.
We can not fix the problems of Earth by throwing money at the problem.
Much like the spendulous package, our last budget and the incoming health care proposals we have gotten ourselves into a situation of playing a game of balancing between doing the right thing for our Earth and fellow man while allowing our politicians to throw little thank you bucks to campaign contributors along the way.
I’m not sure if I will ever understand the thought process behind opening the public’s eyes to the daunting facts about what the future holds in the aspects of national security and dangers from the land we call home and still playing the game of partisan politics to gain political points.
Not a single man, woman or child could blame the cynic for living in his bubble and saying that if things were that important and dangerous in this world our government officials would be sure to drop their red and blue banners in a motion of forward progress.
Instead of moving forward we have a chorus of politicians huddled in a room waiting to say I told you so and another group ready to take every trillion dollar swing possible to wipe out past legacies for the sake of maintaining power.
If we take a break from our band wagon Hay Rides and examine the problems from a broader view each and every American would gain the understanding that the only winners of the passage of these trillion dollar proposals will be countries that don’t share our values and the political contributors who happen to own companies in the “green” sector.
Truly fixing the environment has to come from somewhere deep within ourselves to make conscious decisions to buy fuel efficient and hybrid vehicles but the onus is also on the car companies to make them more accessible and affordable.
The Earth is reacting to the pain that has been afflicted on her which is presenting dangers to the human race and all the organisms we share this planet with.
With danger also comes the opportunity for the people of the world to take hold of the situation besides sitting back in our Lazy Boy chairs and expecting government to pass robust legislations to take care of the things we won’t change in our personal lives.
Government is never the answer because when we sink to these depths the result is and always will be corruption in the form of money going to the wrong places and ultimately going back to that same cynical place where we throw our hands up in the air and wait for the next chosen politician to fix the original problem.
~Stephen Jay Gould
For every generation there has been an existence of common dogma.
Common dogma based on popular opinion and some based on scientific fact warped into one person’s perspective over that of another.
In an age where information lacked accessibility rumor and innuendo often found itself replacing common sense.
Warped into the social causes of the time theories like all the planets in the universe revolving around Earth, a race of people thought to be inferior to another because of the color of their skin, the thought that travel into the ocean would cause an explorer to fall off the edge of the Earth and the belief of being able to do whatever we wanted to our planet without consequence all passed for scientific fact during different periods of our historical record.
When left to our own devices popular opinion and innuendo will lead us astray every time.
Decade after Decade fringe scientists from outside of the box of popular opinion screamed from the roof tops about the dangers to come in our environment.
It was only when the proof broke through the clouds in a ray of realities based around the destruction caused to our planet that the court of public opinion finally took notice.
When the sky’s of our major cities filled with smog and soot.
When the Polar Ice Cap’s began disappearing and animals were left stranded.
When the mercury levels in our Ocean began destroying entire communities of wildlife.
When the hole in the Ozone layer was discovered and the realization swept over the world that there was nothing we could do to repair the damage already caused.
The evidence is strong and the worldwide rise in temperatures could be attributed the exit of the current Ice Age but let’s not blind ourselves with scientific theory and ignore the damage we have done to this planet as a species.
The rise of the Industrial Age with a blind eye to the care and maintenance of the Earth has played a strong part in all of the new dangers we are witnessing in the world and the disasters to come.
In an age where movies show us images that are so close to everything reality should be we have become desensitized when our government lays down reports of cataclysmic events to come.
Floods, hurricanes, rising temperatures, tornado’s, volcano’s, melting of the polar ice caps, oceans boiling creatures and most of the world underwater all top the list but these were dangers we had already been warned about long before Election “08”.
The winds of change are here and our government is forced to take action with an administration that was “hand picked” by the court of public opinion to fix all of our problems.
The thing that amazes me about trillion dollar proposal’s to fix the environment and bail outs laced with “green” initiatives is within the fact that we were told for decades that the environment could be fixed if everyone worked together by doing little things in their lives.
Little things like car pooling and using recyclable materials have been at the forefront of conversation for decades and were labeled as our duty to do so for the betterment of our world.
HOV lanes and metro transit systems were beefed up across the nation in billion dollar initiatives while we all let out a sigh of relief while pointing the finger and laughing at our neighbor for buying a funny looking Hybrid vehicle.
When the oil companies and speculators stepped on our throats through actions of self preservation we did all the things we needed to do in cutting back driving and placing mandates on American car companies to change the way they do business.
These reactionary things were not done to help the enviorment but set the stage for environmental intiatives to hit the forefront of conversation.
These mandates lead to collapse of certain companies that did not answer the call decades before when the world needed it but also gave fuel to our current spending spree in federal government.
A spending spree that has the shell of rebellion against previous do nothing sessions of Congress from past generations and says it’s ok to mount up huge debts to countries who’s idea of democracy is using tanks to run over men and women in the streets who stand up to a government of absolute power.
We can not fix the problems of Earth by throwing money at the problem.
Much like the spendulous package, our last budget and the incoming health care proposals we have gotten ourselves into a situation of playing a game of balancing between doing the right thing for our Earth and fellow man while allowing our politicians to throw little thank you bucks to campaign contributors along the way.
I’m not sure if I will ever understand the thought process behind opening the public’s eyes to the daunting facts about what the future holds in the aspects of national security and dangers from the land we call home and still playing the game of partisan politics to gain political points.
Not a single man, woman or child could blame the cynic for living in his bubble and saying that if things were that important and dangerous in this world our government officials would be sure to drop their red and blue banners in a motion of forward progress.
Instead of moving forward we have a chorus of politicians huddled in a room waiting to say I told you so and another group ready to take every trillion dollar swing possible to wipe out past legacies for the sake of maintaining power.
If we take a break from our band wagon Hay Rides and examine the problems from a broader view each and every American would gain the understanding that the only winners of the passage of these trillion dollar proposals will be countries that don’t share our values and the political contributors who happen to own companies in the “green” sector.
Truly fixing the environment has to come from somewhere deep within ourselves to make conscious decisions to buy fuel efficient and hybrid vehicles but the onus is also on the car companies to make them more accessible and affordable.
The Earth is reacting to the pain that has been afflicted on her which is presenting dangers to the human race and all the organisms we share this planet with.
With danger also comes the opportunity for the people of the world to take hold of the situation besides sitting back in our Lazy Boy chairs and expecting government to pass robust legislations to take care of the things we won’t change in our personal lives.
Government is never the answer because when we sink to these depths the result is and always will be corruption in the form of money going to the wrong places and ultimately going back to that same cynical place where we throw our hands up in the air and wait for the next chosen politician to fix the original problem.
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