Showing posts with label Global Warming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Global Warming. Show all posts
Monday, July 2, 2007
Monday, April 30, 2007
“Bizarro World”
When I was a boy reading “Superman” comics I ran into an alternative universe, Bizarro World”. Quite a few times in my adult life I have felt that I’ve entered that alternative world. I’m having those feelings now.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel have been wearing themselves out by trying to get the message out about global climate change, and that message is being received by the United States as the crazy uncle that you were told to ignore as a kid. We have until 2020 to reduce carbon emissions by eighty percent. That’s less than fifteen years!
By 2050 around a billion people will face food and fresh water shortages. Sea levels will rise, and major populations around the world will be relocated inland. New Orleans was a testing ground for things to come. Anyone who thinks that the government’s reaction to Katrina was about incompetence should realize that they realized that there was no point in salvaging or rebuilding the city. It’s just going to be worse next time and then the next time. So why invest in rebuilding what could be considered the United States version of Atlantis.
The president has finally or kind’a admitted that global climate change might, well, maybe, be caused by humans. What a giant step for the oil man! Now, of course, he’s all for regulations and trying to counter attack the emissions issue, but only as long as it doesn’t have an effect on the economy.
Well I don’t see how it can’t have an effect on the economy. It might be a good move for the economy by developing new technologies as new markets that will replace the old. Though I don’t think things are moving fast enough to create this new economy. We aren’t going to make it because consumerism is so embedded into everyone’s brain.
This leads me back to Bizarro World. We are going to have to start thinking in terms of the Bizarro World where everything is the opposite. Used is good, new is bad. There was a movement during the Great Depression and into World War II where people were involved in saving scrap or recycling clothes and other items, bartering with others, neighborhood gardens, and on and on. We can learn a lot from that generation and time. The attitude has to adjust that old things are coveted, and buying new is wasteful or only okay when necessary.
People are going to have to change:
“I don’t have an air conditioner.”
“Wow! That’s impressive.” They responded.
“I figure it helps prevent black outs and allows people that need the air conditioning to use it.”
Or:
“I’ve been biking to the grocery store. I have to make two trips, but it’s good exercise!”
“Me too. I used to drive my car to the fitness center, but I realized that it lacked some
common sense on my part.”
See what I mean? Write me with a scenario of your own.
Oh yeah and anything plastic should be shunned! Jake Drew
Come join US at http://www.livinginlethargy.com/
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel have been wearing themselves out by trying to get the message out about global climate change, and that message is being received by the United States as the crazy uncle that you were told to ignore as a kid. We have until 2020 to reduce carbon emissions by eighty percent. That’s less than fifteen years!
By 2050 around a billion people will face food and fresh water shortages. Sea levels will rise, and major populations around the world will be relocated inland. New Orleans was a testing ground for things to come. Anyone who thinks that the government’s reaction to Katrina was about incompetence should realize that they realized that there was no point in salvaging or rebuilding the city. It’s just going to be worse next time and then the next time. So why invest in rebuilding what could be considered the United States version of Atlantis.
The president has finally or kind’a admitted that global climate change might, well, maybe, be caused by humans. What a giant step for the oil man! Now, of course, he’s all for regulations and trying to counter attack the emissions issue, but only as long as it doesn’t have an effect on the economy.
Well I don’t see how it can’t have an effect on the economy. It might be a good move for the economy by developing new technologies as new markets that will replace the old. Though I don’t think things are moving fast enough to create this new economy. We aren’t going to make it because consumerism is so embedded into everyone’s brain.
This leads me back to Bizarro World. We are going to have to start thinking in terms of the Bizarro World where everything is the opposite. Used is good, new is bad. There was a movement during the Great Depression and into World War II where people were involved in saving scrap or recycling clothes and other items, bartering with others, neighborhood gardens, and on and on. We can learn a lot from that generation and time. The attitude has to adjust that old things are coveted, and buying new is wasteful or only okay when necessary.
People are going to have to change:
“I don’t have an air conditioner.”
“Wow! That’s impressive.” They responded.
“I figure it helps prevent black outs and allows people that need the air conditioning to use it.”
Or:
“I’ve been biking to the grocery store. I have to make two trips, but it’s good exercise!”
“Me too. I used to drive my car to the fitness center, but I realized that it lacked some
common sense on my part.”
See what I mean? Write me with a scenario of your own.
Oh yeah and anything plastic should be shunned! Jake Drew
Come join US at http://www.livinginlethargy.com/
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Friday, March 2, 2007
Thursday, February 1, 2007
“THAT’S HOT!” February 2007
The Bush Administration has decided that there is something to this Global Warming scare. I don’t buy into it because in every State of the Union for seven years he has brought this up. It doesn’t matter if we reduce oil imports by 20% by 2017. So what if we are “addicted to oil”. So what if the United States is responsible for 25% of the world’s carbon emissions and we only hold 5% of the world’s population. There’s a whole group of people out there that think global warming is natural, and we can’t or shouldn’t do anything about it.
Best excuse – it’s god’s plan.
Most people don’t care about the environment. Nature is nice to watch on Television, but they don’t even want to send their kids outside. It’s a scary world out there. You have anthrax in the ground levels, Lyme disease, bird flu virus, child predators driving around neighborhoods, and don’t you dare talk to strangers, even though they live three houses down from you.
Plus to reduce oil dependency we might have to give up some of our “freedoms”. Little Johnny can only participate in one sports activity, because of the gas expenditures from driving him back and forth. He could ride his bike though. Eliminate recreational vehicles. Shopping would be reduced to once a week. Cut out shopping – then we aren’t supporting the troops!
If you want to do something about the environment, you have to humanize it. It’s not a good thing if the glaciers melt away. Warm weather is nice to people, but ocean levels rising would displace a lot of people. Cities and suburbia will need to make room for a lot of new neighbors. U.S. citizens already try to avoid contact with people by eating fast food, renting DVDs, no eye contact when walking, and talking to people through cell phones. Increased population is really going to hinder our lives.
The environment needs a spokesperson. It has to be a person and not a cuddly animal character like a polar bear. Polar bears aren’t found in our everyday lives, they live in zoos. Global warming isn’t going to affect the zoos. We need a celebrity to draw attention to the issues. Paris Hilton would be ideal! She already has that tag line, “That’s Hot!”. Plus we all have an interest in her, and she could use a little polish on that soiled image of hers.
You could show her watching a bunch of hunched over bicycle riders going by with their tight buttocks up in the air. She could use her tag line. She could be cuddling up with a polar bear, though not a polar bear rug. All that tan bare skin against the furry whiteness – Oh, man! That’s hot!
Jake Drew
Come relieve your frustrations with the cartoons at http://www.livinginlethargy.com/
Best excuse – it’s god’s plan.
Most people don’t care about the environment. Nature is nice to watch on Television, but they don’t even want to send their kids outside. It’s a scary world out there. You have anthrax in the ground levels, Lyme disease, bird flu virus, child predators driving around neighborhoods, and don’t you dare talk to strangers, even though they live three houses down from you.
Plus to reduce oil dependency we might have to give up some of our “freedoms”. Little Johnny can only participate in one sports activity, because of the gas expenditures from driving him back and forth. He could ride his bike though. Eliminate recreational vehicles. Shopping would be reduced to once a week. Cut out shopping – then we aren’t supporting the troops!
If you want to do something about the environment, you have to humanize it. It’s not a good thing if the glaciers melt away. Warm weather is nice to people, but ocean levels rising would displace a lot of people. Cities and suburbia will need to make room for a lot of new neighbors. U.S. citizens already try to avoid contact with people by eating fast food, renting DVDs, no eye contact when walking, and talking to people through cell phones. Increased population is really going to hinder our lives.
The environment needs a spokesperson. It has to be a person and not a cuddly animal character like a polar bear. Polar bears aren’t found in our everyday lives, they live in zoos. Global warming isn’t going to affect the zoos. We need a celebrity to draw attention to the issues. Paris Hilton would be ideal! She already has that tag line, “That’s Hot!”. Plus we all have an interest in her, and she could use a little polish on that soiled image of hers.
You could show her watching a bunch of hunched over bicycle riders going by with their tight buttocks up in the air. She could use her tag line. She could be cuddling up with a polar bear, though not a polar bear rug. All that tan bare skin against the furry whiteness – Oh, man! That’s hot!
Jake Drew
Come relieve your frustrations with the cartoons at http://www.livinginlethargy.com/
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