$1 Billion Donation
Americans have managed to donate $1 Billion to the people who have no home, no electricity, and no money. Keep going.
Especially since the federal government is unlikely to roll-back its tax cuts (or raise new ones) for the richer part of our population to help pay for the reconstruction of New Orleans, we might as well chip in our measly part, to make a grand sum.
The stickie above will stay on until October 1st. This is to give the victims of Hurricane Katrina one full month of attention since the hurricane first struck. Then again, there's another potential hurricane strike that looks like it is crossing Florida into the Gulf of Mexico.
It's a good thing the media are finally swinging its lumbering head to the problems of global warming. Despite paying little attention to the melting glacier, the rising ocean temperature, the shrinking Antarctica, it took the destructive impact of just one hurricane, the death of 976 people, and the publications of two reports within six weeks of each other on global warming to get the media's attention. How can rising global temperature be so abstract and stuck in the back of our mind when we see that the greater intensity of hurricane is due to this very thing?
Even the Weather Channel has hired an expert on global climate change.
Now, I admit that scientists haven't been able to explain why we don't have more smaller hurricanes instead of few massive ones; but to try to debate whether there will be more hurricanes or the same number but stronger and bigger is missing the bigger picture: The point is that climate change is happening. The world's environment is changing, little better for some but much worse for others. Food production will be affected.
For those of you who would prefer to keep things the same, must try to limit your impact by reducing your most mundane of habits: driving, turning on the light, taking shower, watering the lawn, leaving the TVs and computers on, shopping for clothes, throwing away trashes and using heater or air conditioning.
I do see how this will hurt the economy; yet, the economy will go bad either way, especially since the government's revenue depends on the economy more than on tax. People are still in debt. We could do more, but I'm afraid we'll have to wait too long before a critical mass occurs to turn us another way.
I must be Malthus, at least for now.
Especially since the federal government is unlikely to roll-back its tax cuts (or raise new ones) for the richer part of our population to help pay for the reconstruction of New Orleans, we might as well chip in our measly part, to make a grand sum.
The stickie above will stay on until October 1st. This is to give the victims of Hurricane Katrina one full month of attention since the hurricane first struck. Then again, there's another potential hurricane strike that looks like it is crossing Florida into the Gulf of Mexico.
It's a good thing the media are finally swinging its lumbering head to the problems of global warming. Despite paying little attention to the melting glacier, the rising ocean temperature, the shrinking Antarctica, it took the destructive impact of just one hurricane, the death of 976 people, and the publications of two reports within six weeks of each other on global warming to get the media's attention. How can rising global temperature be so abstract and stuck in the back of our mind when we see that the greater intensity of hurricane is due to this very thing?
Even the Weather Channel has hired an expert on global climate change.
Now, I admit that scientists haven't been able to explain why we don't have more smaller hurricanes instead of few massive ones; but to try to debate whether there will be more hurricanes or the same number but stronger and bigger is missing the bigger picture: The point is that climate change is happening. The world's environment is changing, little better for some but much worse for others. Food production will be affected.
For those of you who would prefer to keep things the same, must try to limit your impact by reducing your most mundane of habits: driving, turning on the light, taking shower, watering the lawn, leaving the TVs and computers on, shopping for clothes, throwing away trashes and using heater or air conditioning.
I do see how this will hurt the economy; yet, the economy will go bad either way, especially since the government's revenue depends on the economy more than on tax. People are still in debt. We could do more, but I'm afraid we'll have to wait too long before a critical mass occurs to turn us another way.
I must be Malthus, at least for now.
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posted by Alan at September 19, 2005
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Happyyyy Thanksgiving!!!!
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