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Strikes are emotionally disruptive, of that there can be no doubt. Equally, the notion that someone controls your value to the extent you feel powerless causes a sense of rebellion.
Taken to extremes, these emotions cause chaos. I fear that chaos will spill over across the land, further threatening our democracy.
When television started, commercials were permitted at the top of the hour, between shows. Soon the advertisers, seeing the success of this new publicity tool, insisted on a more regular appearances of their message.
Two disaster categories are in desperate need of solutions — quick, accurate, and effective solutions to environmental disasters. Okay, yes, there are more than two disaster categories, but let’s focus on two: Oil spills and wildfires.
Oil spills are inevitable.
One of the lessons in the movie Oppenheimer is that the man – indeed the team of scientists – come to realize that the weapon they had created for good purpose is, in fact the destroyer of their collective (and our nation’s) morality. They had created an ultimate sin.
One of the questions plaguing scientists, especially environmental scientists these days, is how long does it take Mother Nature to adapt to change? How long will an organism take to adapt to a new environment? How long does it take a maple tree to adapt to a 10-degree change in weather patterns?
There is a new trend. It is called global awareness. World’s media companies are increasingly sprinkling news items from beyond our shores, politicians are warning of geopolitical upheavals and perceived enemies of the American way of life, and, always, there are truly evil folks “out there” we have to safeguard against.
Yes, you may eat a spare rib, but that pig ate, mostly, oilseed product, of which soybeans are 90 percent of all oilseed crops in the USA (sunflower, canola, flax and peanuts make up the rest). Same feedstuffs for cows. Same with sheep (lamb). And, somewhat sadly, farmed fish.
In the ‘60s and ‘70s, the leader of the capitalist, commercial, world, America, played a heavy hand in allowing a pristine wilderness to be opened up. Under the guise of bringing civilization and commerce to underprivileged people and gaining access to Brazil’s untapped wealth, our senators and Dept.
In order to lead the world in fixing the environment, we have to realize that industry, Wall Street, and rich science-deniers have the upper hand currently.
All developed nations subsidize their industries and thereby put goods on the market at artificially low prices.
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