View on the Eivnironment

The view from my Blue Bird perch is a little unsettling these days…

Given the various articles of news over the past few days (Drilling Plan OK'd for Rare Desert Land; and Global Warming Approaching Point of No Return; and US energy secretary nominee Sam Bodman Vows to Expand Alaska Oil Drilling), I find it difficult to believe some of my colleagues’ assertions that the Bush administration is environmental friendly. It seems that every day something new rears it’s head to indicate, and subsequently prove that the United States (that’s US) is truly out for big business interests and nothing more.

Further, the 2005 index of environmental sustainability, which ranks nations on their success at such tasks as maintaining or improving air and water quality, maximizing biodiversity and cooperating with other countries on environmental problems, has honestly ranked US 45th of the 146 countries studied.

Additionally, during a recent conference assessing the linkage of climate change to natural disasters, the US delegation moved to purge a U.N. action plan of its references to climate change as a potential cause of future natural calamities, in its "framework for action" document. The Bush administration has held fast to its rejection of mandatory curbs on greenhouse gases that are blamed for global warming. Further, the document’s preamble paints a picture of economic calamity by stating that climate change is one factor pointing toward "a future where disasters could increasingly threaten the world's economy, and its population."

Now – take this assertion by US, alongside the voodoo economics of the Bush administration, and move forward ten, twenty, or fifty years… My guess is that we (US) will be killing each other to survive, will not have the big corporate business infrastructure to prop up even the most meager of lifestyles, and will surely be on the road to national revolution…

What can we do?

Write you congressional representatives, write you state’s senators, talk to friends and colleagues…? Sure, why not? Maybe the time for revolution is now. All you (we) need to do is speak out. Simply lift your head from your daily grind and look around. Take a few minutes to scan the various environmental news articles that are prevalent in all of the major typewritten media. But whatever you do – DO NOT TURN AWAY! IT WILL NOT GO AWAY!

Without action, the future of our environment is at risk, and most certainly, our economy is entangled deeper than what you can perceive today, while working with your nose buried in your corporate e-mail…

Maybe start your education with research into a few of the following links…
www.grist.org
www.edf.org
www.enn.com
www.envirolink.org
www.scorecard.org
www.ucsusa.org

I find myself amazed that our American society (US) can be so easily led down the pathway of fear concerning terrorism, and weapons of mass destruction, and yet be completely NUMB to the truly impending terror of environmental degradation…

I have vowed my very existence, however short or long that it may be, to help bring environmental awareness, and hopefully constructive activism to the forefront. This planet is ours to tend. We are blessed to have been given such a beautiful and bountiful element for our sustenance (Earth), and it is now time to take full responsibility for our mis-handling…

Please join me! Please do not turn-away!