Reading harold_maude's journal

Last night I caught part of nightline. Something I haven't done in a very long time, due to the disgust with most of what I see connected with any "news show".

But this was different. It was about the problem with global warming. The alarm bells have been sounding from the scientific world for a very long time. If we keep doing what we are doing, staying this road and keep doing as we have been we are going to loose big time.

The reason the G-8 summet was so important is because this lovely blue-green planet we call home is in trouble.
Tempratures have been on the rise for several years and the polar ice caps are melting faster than they should.
Glaicer national park is loosing it's glaciers and rain forests are suffering.

What does this have to do with you and me? Alot. Frogs, and other speices of animals and plants are the indicators of the health of the planet.
And because of our human activites that include burning lots and lots of fossil fuels and surrounding ourselves with lots and lots of plastic we are doing great damage.

Yesterday when I went to check my e-mail I read through the news headlines on the main page.
There was an article about unborn babies having toxic pollutiants.
And then the revelation that the gasses given off by decaying plastic causing girls to go into physical maturity sooner.
Which means that it's possible for girls to have babies earlier.
Isn't that just a lovely thought?
Babies having babies.

The food that most of get from the local supermarket is dead.
It's been so genetically altered that there is nothing viable about it.
Chickens, turkeies and other animals are fed so much artifical crap that they grow too large to support their own weight.
And what really sucks is that sometimes they explode inside before they go to the slaughter house.

And beef...well, that's another horror story altogether.
Here in the midwest the beef and pigs are raised in feed lots.
Until I moved here to this part of the country I had never seen a feed lot and really had no idea what it was.
I was horrified when I found out.
Cattle are fed growth hormones and live and spend their lives in these pen type places which means they shit in the same place they eat...on a daily basis.
Yummy...

I'm sure that most people have heard of mad cow disease..well you wanna know how that happens?
They take these diseased animals like sheep and cattle and butcher them and grind them up and put it in the food they feed cattle.
Cattle are herbavors, which means they are designed to eat grass, not meat.

If you know all of this and think fish is a safe way to go, well here in the midwest the fish are toxic.
There is so much run off from feed lots and chemical laiden farms that when the snow melts the rivers produce this strange foam.
Kind of looks like someone poured soap in the water.

They have found prozac in the oceans....

Boys and Girls we are fast approaching the time of soylant green..if your wondering what that is, check out the movie...
We are distroying the earth.

And the really sad part is that the president of this country has said publicly that he will not support enviormental change here in the us. In fact he's fighting it.
And his reasoning...that the american public won't be willing to give up their cars and change their life style.

Now with all this bad news, here are some thoughts that may help:
One person changing the choices of where they buy the food they eat, oh say an organic farmer, and choosing to use glass instead of plastic, and using cloth bags when they go shopping..all small changes, a person can start changing their corner of the world.
Change takes one person at a time.
We still have some time to change some things, and stop the madness.
Get educated about things, and make informed decisions instead of listening to what the adds say on T.V.
This isn't the other guys problem, it's ours. It's our world, and we are just stewards here.
With each generation that adds to the problem instead of being part of the soultion we condem the next generation to more death.
Think about that if you have children or grandchildren or ever want to have kids.
What you do today does make a difference. One way or another it does.

It only looks that way because your standing on your head.