[lit-ideas] Re: Where politics hits the grass
- From: Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:14:51 -0800 (PST)
I don't follow this. I only check out the big picture about climate change.
Like the economy, the climate/environmental picture is bleak and getting
bleaker. Industry will throw every monkey wrench they possibly can,
whether real or imagined, to stop environmental cleanup and progress.. I don't
get that at all, but that's the way people are. It's like they're stuck in
this infantile narcissism or something. The irony is we can make the economy
thrive by working on the environment. Instead we're spinning our wheels like
crazy filling up landfills.
As far as black/white, those are such artificial societal constructs. Society
creates the opportunities and impediments and then decides who gets what and
attaches race to it. Feeling racially superior is like thinking one doesn't
need the environment. It just doesn't make sense.
If nothing else, the economy will collapse because it's the environment that
supports the economy, which is to say, the oil, the coal, the water, the trees
for wood, the fish, the soil, the food, the minerals, and on and on, and
they're being lost such that we'll need another earth in 20 years, in a
veritable blink of an eye. And media isn't making it known at all. Then we
wonder how the Easter Islanders cut down the last tree, when we're doing
exactly that. Humans are indeed limited creatures.
--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] Where politics hits the grass
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 11:50 PM
http://www.greenforall.org/blog/hooray-now-lets-help-obama-govern.-heres-how#5-million-green-jobs
http://www.greenforall.org/about-us
I can't remember if someone on this list mentioned this site, or where I
stumbled across it. Thought it might be worth posting...as either a reminder
or boost. (psst....Irene -- do you follow this?)
--
Julie Krueger
Other related posts:
