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And we'll never fix this

thepeoplechoose — Wed, 12 May 2010 08:38:16 +0000

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And we'll never fix this either. Because we'd have to increase taxes to do that. It is worth noting that much of our aging and increasingly decrepit public infrastructure was built by government at a time when taxes actually made this a doable proposition. I don't think there is the slightest chance in hell those who now control the wealth of the country would ever agree to pony up the money it would take to fix all the stuff that needs looking after. I know I've read estimates of the cost for this endeavor which runs into the trillions of dollars. There is pretty much a zero grasp of the idea that all this stuff won't last forever or meet the needs of a growing population. We have a lot of people who are willfully blind to this elementary idea.

Hey, remember Pete Seegar's

neoboho — Wed, 12 May 2010 03:06:00 +0000

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Hey, remember Pete Seegar's song:

"Roll on, roll on, Monongahela
Where the catfish and the carp left long ago.
You used to be so pure
But now you're just a sewer,
Messin up the Gulf of Mexico"

I mean, the area most affected (so far) by the oil spill is just east of a spreading gigantic Dead Zone.

http://www.wiserearth.org/article/fe12e7359bdb2fee5b982bf873f423ca

We've only got one

Overreach THIS! — Wed, 12 May 2010 00:42:29 +0000

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We've only got one planet.

We've screwed up most of the rivers.

And now we've made a perfect mess of the Gulf of Mexico, an enormous ecosystem, still getting much worse every day.

Where does it end? Where?

Brilliant comment! Add so

Overreach THIS! — Wed, 12 May 2010 00:37:40 +0000

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Brilliant comment! Add so much!!

Hot air from Al Gore is the

Sailormarlowe — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:46:52 +0000

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Hot air from Al Gore is the primary source of greenhouse gas.

We are way past

Dorn76 — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:35:47 +0000

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We are way past "irreversible" effects. Now we just need to somehow keep from destroying ourselves and what's left of this beautiful Planet.

If can get our act together

matyra — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:19:27 +0000

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If can get our act together and protect lands and ecosystems until 2050, we all may have a chance. 2050 is the year that many believe that the human population will stabilized. Fertility rates are plummeting world-wide as a side product of better women's rights, better survival rates of kids, and simply that a technological world is an expensive world and kids are expensive.

When our population isn't always moving crazily up, then the environment might have a chance. But we've got to get to 2050 without killing everything.

It's always a pleasure to

Fred Moolten — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:16:04 +0000

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It's always a pleasure to agree vigorously with someone who often sees things very differently from the way I do on other issues. This post deserves attention, because time is running out.

That was all I intended to say, but as I was writing, I remembered that I wrote a song about this topic that is up on YouTube as a music video. I'm not really trying to tout it, and I don't think it gets many visitors anymore anyway, but anyone who wants to waste a few minutes is welcome to pay it a visit, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuIxDMj3DNA

You are right. There is much

oleeb — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:51:56 +0000

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You are right. There is much work to do. If it goes undone there is simply no future.

It's a crime wave against

~flowerchild~ — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:52:18 +0000

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It's a crime wave against Earth, oleeb. It makes my heart hurt to think of us as perpetrator and victim rolled into one. But, I will sandbag the despair and get back to work. There is much to do.