Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Global Warming
To those who aren’t convinced of global warming, what are you fighting for? The right to remain irresponsible? The right to refuse change? The right to continue to pollute the earth we live on, the air we breathe, and the water that becomes a part of us? If we conserve, reuse, and so on, what is there to lose?
Let’s say global warming isn’t so and that this is a natural cycle. We have had natural resource shortages before. It was scary and hellish. So we continue to consume and abuse and refuse to change our ways. And we have faith that there is enough for us Americans for nothing tragic could every happen to the world’s superpower. No worries. We use like there’s and endless supply. More is more, bigger, better! We take the risk of the unknown.
What I'm Learning at State College - "We can't change global warming"
My advertising professor starts every class period by telling us how he can remember riding the horse and buggy to school. He said the man who owned the Weather Channel has convinced him with scientific proof that the said effects of Global Warming are merely natural occurrences and that those who believe in Global Warming have yet to prove otherwise. He further said that even if we did change our ways "we can't stop China or India who make up half the world's population".
What I have realized about retired now adjunct professors is that not only are they set in their ways but they have closed minds and a negative perception when it comes to change. Would it be so bad to believe in Global Warming? I mean all that would result is humans taking responsibility for our waste and excess. Shouldn't we care about the environment and in effect ourselves? Those who strongly oppose the idea of Global Warming simply don't want to take responsibility for the destruction of the planet and are unwilling to change their spoiled ways – give up their SUVs, reduce, reuse, and recycle, and so on.
Maybe I'm too hopeful or optimistic. But I think we should be taught ideals along with reality and that change happens and so can we. I didn't pay for the college of Can Not.
What I have realized about retired now adjunct professors is that not only are they set in their ways but they have closed minds and a negative perception when it comes to change. Would it be so bad to believe in Global Warming? I mean all that would result is humans taking responsibility for our waste and excess. Shouldn't we care about the environment and in effect ourselves? Those who strongly oppose the idea of Global Warming simply don't want to take responsibility for the destruction of the planet and are unwilling to change their spoiled ways – give up their SUVs, reduce, reuse, and recycle, and so on.
Maybe I'm too hopeful or optimistic. But I think we should be taught ideals along with reality and that change happens and so can we. I didn't pay for the college of Can Not.
Coal Mining and Mountaintop Removal
"Mountaintop removal is a unique Appalachian form of strip mining that involves blowing tops off mountains and dumping the rubble in valleys. Massey Energy of West Virginia equates anti-coal with anti-American." I'd like to adopt WV native Kathy Mattea's motto of not being anti-coal but rather being pro-people and pro-environment. "Beckley, WV coal truck supplier Carl Hubbard, bemoaned "limp-wristed greeniacs" in a recent newspaper column." So Carl wants to resort to lifestyle insults... He should be aware his audience is not just "holler" folk anymore.
Wouldn't you rather hug a tree than this trash?
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