How CLOSE are we?

"If there is no action before 2012, that's too late. What we do now in the next two to three years will determine our future. This is the defining moment."

Rajendra Pachauri
IPCC
Panel Chairmen

PAGE 43 of Hot, Flat, and Crowded

A day that will live in infamy!!!!

So, I read the news that BP has finally capped the oil spill. AFTER 85 DAYS AND 184 MILLION GALLONS!!! It has been hailed as a positive sign. It reminds me of a conversation I had with my previous neighbor, Marian. At the ripe age of 85, she asked as we sat on the porch one summer day, "why do all these cars only have one person in them?"

The only answer that I could think of was "because they can and maybe they're alone." It didn't make much sense to her since gas was so expensive. "You'd think people would meet at a corner and get in one car to run errands together." "That way we would save gas and people wouldn't be alone." I miss Marian.

It seems so innocent.....

I grew up surrounded by the country. In the fall, we visited the farm and looked at the turkeys (one of which wound up on our table). Cows were called "moo-moos" or as the boys shouted "steak"! Now eating beef seems so selfish. When cows burp, they emit methane...one of the gases from hell.