Good Coffee Klatch, yet incomplete. Our problem is deeper even than the huge wealth disparity you so accurately describe. We have a planet in a great deal of trouble. We are extracting resources at an unsustainable rate. We are poisoning ecosystems with manmade chemicals, from nitrogenous fertilizers and forever chemicals, to pesticides …
Good Coffee Klatch, yet incomplete. Our problem is deeper even than the huge wealth disparity you so accurately describe. We have a planet in a great deal of trouble. We are extracting resources at an unsustainable rate. We are poisoning ecosystems with manmade chemicals, from nitrogenous fertilizers and forever chemicals, to pesticides and herbicides with names that people cannot pronounce. We are cutting down the forests and adding plastics to oceans that are the source of life. The billionaires and oligarchs and autocrats of the planet are gathering resources to themselves, endangering the poor and wildlife, at a rate that exceeds anything in history. We do not have long before the planetary boundaries, already crossed, lead to a global ecological, as well as economic collapse, which will not recover using a Roosevelt like spending boom as recommended by Maynard Keynes. That solution is too small. It will require an entire economic restructuring based on ecological regeneration as the primary tool. Electing Trump and his acolytes makes this process more difficult as well as inevitable. You cannot ignore the ecological because humanity, which Trump imperils along with many other leaders, lives within ecosystems and is fully part of them. If insects and forests die, so do we, and we are killing them. Don't leave this out of the discussion, it is central to it.
Wayne, you have nailed it. We are focused on what is directly in front of us, but the bigger picture is, literally, the planet. I never imagined I'd live long enough to see it, but I'm in my 70's, in poor health, and pretty sure I'll not see 80, and yet I am seeing that the Apocalypse is well underway.
Thanks. I find my health and spirit improves with ruby-throated hummingbirds. They are both a joy to watch and to hear. Trumpet vines attract them well. Winter is rough because they leave, so I just have to be satisfied with pileated woodpeckers and juncos. There are still some left and if you plant things, they will come. That is the solution, plant lots of trees, shrubs, flowers and native grasses, then see what happens.
Under Trump the US will not meet its climate goals, and that will almost certainly spell climate doom, to be blunt if not specific. The next 4 years are not recoverable:i.e. there is no way we will be able to keep from exceeding our GHG emission goals at the end of T's term in office.
Good Coffee Klatch, yet incomplete. Our problem is deeper even than the huge wealth disparity you so accurately describe. We have a planet in a great deal of trouble. We are extracting resources at an unsustainable rate. We are poisoning ecosystems with manmade chemicals, from nitrogenous fertilizers and forever chemicals, to pesticides and herbicides with names that people cannot pronounce. We are cutting down the forests and adding plastics to oceans that are the source of life. The billionaires and oligarchs and autocrats of the planet are gathering resources to themselves, endangering the poor and wildlife, at a rate that exceeds anything in history. We do not have long before the planetary boundaries, already crossed, lead to a global ecological, as well as economic collapse, which will not recover using a Roosevelt like spending boom as recommended by Maynard Keynes. That solution is too small. It will require an entire economic restructuring based on ecological regeneration as the primary tool. Electing Trump and his acolytes makes this process more difficult as well as inevitable. You cannot ignore the ecological because humanity, which Trump imperils along with many other leaders, lives within ecosystems and is fully part of them. If insects and forests die, so do we, and we are killing them. Don't leave this out of the discussion, it is central to it.
Wayne, you have nailed it. We are focused on what is directly in front of us, but the bigger picture is, literally, the planet. I never imagined I'd live long enough to see it, but I'm in my 70's, in poor health, and pretty sure I'll not see 80, and yet I am seeing that the Apocalypse is well underway.
Thanks. I find my health and spirit improves with ruby-throated hummingbirds. They are both a joy to watch and to hear. Trumpet vines attract them well. Winter is rough because they leave, so I just have to be satisfied with pileated woodpeckers and juncos. There are still some left and if you plant things, they will come. That is the solution, plant lots of trees, shrubs, flowers and native grasses, then see what happens.
support the Nature Conservancy and other groups which work to preserve the ecosystems
Under Trump the US will not meet its climate goals, and that will almost certainly spell climate doom, to be blunt if not specific. The next 4 years are not recoverable:i.e. there is no way we will be able to keep from exceeding our GHG emission goals at the end of T's term in office.
Very true.