I also have been thinking about the past. When I was about nineteen years
old, it was very very hot one June day. June was usually beautiful, sunny,
and in the 70's. It never got really hot until July. But on that one day, it
went up to 95 degrees, and a friend took me out toFire Island where his
friend had a boat and we floated around in the Great South Bay, feeling the
cool breezes and getting extremely sun burned. But in the early 90's, I sat
in the office in my house on a day early in May and thought that perhaps I
should turn on the air conditioning because it was in the low 90's, a bit
unusual for May back then. On Christmas Eve this year, when we went out for
our traditional restaurant Christmas Eve dinner, it was 70 degrees and I
left my coat at home.
Miriam
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Once upon a time, long, long ago and far, far away, working class families
lived pretty well on a single income. In those forgotten times it was
mostly men who headed off to work each day, while most women stayed home to
do all those things women in the olden days knew how to do in order to have
a smooth running home. In our house, Mother truly earned the title of Home
Maker. She waited until my sisters and I were entering our teens before
taking employment outside the home. Mother rousted us each morning, had hot
cereal waiting on the back of the stove, built the fire in the old coal
furnace, kissed Dad off to work, shooed us off to school and went about
dusting and cleaning up the mess we'd made. Sitting in the corner of our
dining room was something we don't often see today. A sewing machine. It
was always piled high with pants needing patching, shirts with buttons
missing, hems needing to be let out, and half finished PJ's for each of us.
And when Mother found a garment too worn to be of any further use, it went
into the rag bag. From time to time, Mother would pull out some of these
cast offs and cut large squares from them. From these she sewed cloth
shopping bags. These bags would go into her two wheel shopping cart and off
she would go to the nearest grocery store.
While some of our friends had second cars, Mother never drove. She walked
most places and took the bus if the distance was too far.
Mother kept a small vegetable garden out back, and roses around the front of
the yard where passerby's could enjoy them, too. She washed clothes and
hung them out to dry on the clothes lines in the back yard.
For us it was a pleasant life. We could walk to Green Lake or head in the
other direction and walk to Golden Gardens on Puget Sound. The water was
pure. People came from long distances to fish for Salmon in Puget Sound.
We could faintly smell the pulp mill in Everett, when the wind blew just
right, but we always believed that we had pure air, blown in from the
Pacific ocean. Even as the three huge smoke stacks near down town Seattle
at the steam plant blew huge black clouds of smoke into the air. Why, we
believed the sky was so vast that it could easily take care of any smoke
from those old chimneys. Of course we children all walked or rode bikes.
It was not so many years ago, maybe 65 or so, but it was worlds away from
today.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/14/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dick,of
ABout 97% of the scientific world disagrees with you, at least so I've
read.
I've also read that the big oil companies did research 40 years ago
which shoed that global warming is due to the increase in greenhouse
gases, and that they then did precisely what the tobacco industry did
when it found out that Nicotine caused cancer. They paid scientists to
diesseminate disinformation.
Miriam .
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[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of R. E. ;
Driscoll Sr
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All:
After nearly 50 years of practice as a Chemical Engineer I have
concluded that no one knows with a high degree of certainty just what
is occurring to cause the apparent change in climatic conditions.
There are a goodly number of proposals that seem to indicate that an
increase in Carbon Dioxide is the primary factor, the primary source
being the products of combustion. My own opinion is that water vapor
is the primary causative factor since about two volumes of water vapor
are created for each carbon dioxide created.
R. E. (Dick) Driscoll, Sr.
On 1/14/2016 8:22 AM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
I suppose that if the true causes of climate change were tackled,
there'd be
less concern about plastic bags. But then there's that huge island
plastic floating in our oceans. It's like every solution leads to
another
problem.
Miriam
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The issue is that for people that don't have the luxury of driving
the
store having to bring reusable bags is an added inconvenience and
many of
the canvas bags are difficult to carry and don't seem to hold as
much. I am
old enough to remember that at one time plastic bags were considered
apaper
panacea because people weren't using as many trees by not using
bags.impact
The problem with the California law in addition is that stores can
charge up
to .10 for each bag and there are concerns about how this will
low
income people.
Chuck
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Hi
While I agree in theory with banning plastic bags I have a
Whereplastic
we live, I have a trash shoot for all trash. I reuse all the
bags Ijust
get from the stores. Usually I use cloth bags for groceries but
get
enough plastic bags for trash. If they outlaw plastic bags, we will
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them.
Perhaps a lot of people don't do this though.
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