No, I was just saying that there aren't any actors in any government that really care about the Earth & her vulnerabilities. So what difference does it make?
As far as global warming - spewing out car exhaust & gas farts in a closed system can't be great. Seems like something we created & something we could change.
Once visited a Colorado town where they'd done a lot of fracking & mountaintop removal (you could see the mountains sliced down). The water there was nasty, cloudy and it tasted like metal. We couldn't drink it - had to buy a ton of bottled water because we were there for a couple days.
My boyfriend & I don't recycle because I know where recycling goes - direct to poorer countries where it gets burned and harms the lungs of the locals. But any ways, the trash we produce from two small people is huge. Like, two giant bags a week.
Our model of life is unsustainable - the packaging unsustainable. Eventually there's nowhere else to put the waste. It's dangerous to equate the care of our planet with a political ideology. It's not 'commie' to care about The Earth.
It's probably a great relief to blame solar/galactic variables for the damage to our home. And it certainly fits neatly with the rest of the 'right' or 'conservative' side. But we're all doing immense harm by participating in these toxic practices (driving all the time, eating meat & dairy, demanding products from far away, buying products from companies which are irresponsible and wasteful, etc). But I think you're right that everyone on the planet needs to decide to individually change/evolve but that ain't happenin. Instead of evolving we have people calling others 'soyboys' and talking about 'eating bugs' and showing videos of people eating burgers at vegan protests. Being environmentally irresponsible is now equated to being freedom-loving or gun-loving or believing in free speech. Being environmentally irresponsible is just being environmentally irresponsible. That's it - it's not tied to anything else.
My point is simply that if any agency should have more power it should be an agency that's genuinely looking out for the health of our water, land, air. But since the EPA is filled with paid-off pawns then the whole issue is mute any way.
No, I was just saying that there aren't any actors in any government that really care about the Earth & her vulnerabilities. So what difference does it make?
As far as global warming - spewing out car exhaust & gas farts in a closed system can't be great. Seems like something we created & something we could change.
I got bad news about volcanos for you.
That's an absurd comparison.
Once visited a Colorado town where they'd done a lot of fracking & mountaintop removal (you could see the mountains sliced down). The water there was nasty, cloudy and it tasted like metal. We couldn't drink it - had to buy a ton of bottled water because we were there for a couple days.
My boyfriend & I don't recycle because I know where recycling goes - direct to poorer countries where it gets burned and harms the lungs of the locals. But any ways, the trash we produce from two small people is huge. Like, two giant bags a week.
Our model of life is unsustainable - the packaging unsustainable. Eventually there's nowhere else to put the waste. It's dangerous to equate the care of our planet with a political ideology. It's not 'commie' to care about The Earth.
It's probably a great relief to blame solar/galactic variables for the damage to our home. And it certainly fits neatly with the rest of the 'right' or 'conservative' side. But we're all doing immense harm by participating in these toxic practices (driving all the time, eating meat & dairy, demanding products from far away, buying products from companies which are irresponsible and wasteful, etc). But I think you're right that everyone on the planet needs to decide to individually change/evolve but that ain't happenin. Instead of evolving we have people calling others 'soyboys' and talking about 'eating bugs' and showing videos of people eating burgers at vegan protests. Being environmentally irresponsible is now equated to being freedom-loving or gun-loving or believing in free speech. Being environmentally irresponsible is just being environmentally irresponsible. That's it - it's not tied to anything else.
My point is simply that if any agency should have more power it should be an agency that's genuinely looking out for the health of our water, land, air. But since the EPA is filled with paid-off pawns then the whole issue is mute any way.