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[ragdoll13]

You know what? THIS is global warming. To the ignorant, the phrase conjures images of a world that is perhaps half unviable desert and half primeval jungle. But when things start to warm up, that's not what happens. Despite the many correlations, the world and its atmosphere are NOT a greenhouse. It's all so much more complicated than that.

But SOME people choose to ignore the obvious. It seems like the weather systems ripping across the U.S. and the world get more fucked up every year. But still, some people claim that pollution has nothing to do with warming trends, or that the warming is a temporary blip, or even that the warming doesn't exist. Anything that would prevent them having to reduce carbon emissions. Why? Because THAT would hurt the bottom line.

You know what's really heartbreaking? The thought that someday, perhaps within our lifetime, people will have to start moving inland to live peaceful, happy lives.

Not me, though. I'll become a grey-haired, wrinkle-faced wild woman. I'll stay here and raise hearty goats and cure fevers with weeds and cling to the rocks like a mussel.

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[mechanicfallacy.livejournal.com]

You know what's sad? I did a study with the people I work with, and at least half of them have no doubt about global warming, but say that their obsessions with cars/electronics/etc. they simply aren't willing to give up.

[ragdoll13.livejournal.com]

You know what? I don't think we actually need to give these things up to make a big dent in carbon emissions. Is that crazy? Maybe. Maybe not.

If people lived in communities, real communities, instead of having to drive into town from the fucking suburbs, that would cut down on a LOT of driving. If people bussed, biked or walked to work ONE DAY A WEEK, the difference would be pretty staggering. If we offered incentives for companies to use cleaner methods of production, the numbers would drop. If we supported research into cleaner burning fuels, our air would be cleaner.

Small sacrifices, but still far off in the future, it would seem.

[mechanicfallacy.livejournal.com]

I think you are very right. I think all of our problems, inevitably, end up in the community. Big business corrupts.

P.S. that's why Bellingham is a great place, small comutes. Plenty of people willing to make differencesany way they can.