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Illumination · 05-31-2009, 09:22 PM

Hi seashore,

Sorry I disappeared - I was fortunate enough to take a vacation for a week. Wow, your list is really growing! Great stuff. Another item that should be very near the top, as everything else is kind of moot, is "address climate change NOW." Some of your list addresses the situation (replacing fossil fuels, free energy, etc.) but there needs to be a massive effort by all governments/peoples to make abrupt changes in the way we live on the planet. A few wind mills and solar panels and hybrid autos are not enough. So many countries are so far ahead of the US in these areas (also using maglev trains, other forms of mass transportation, etc.).

Although I think this is a critical issue, there are days when I get depressed about how screwed the planet already is and we have probably passed the tipping point where nothing we humans can do will stop the chaos. The seas are already reverting back to prehistoric levels where large mammals are unable to breathe in the algae infested, polluted waters. Jellyfish are taking over. The glaciers around the world are literally disappearing. And on.

But then there are days when I believe Mother Earth might not fling us off herself as fleas on a dog deserve to be. She might balance herself out (whatever that might end up being) and maybe if we stop the mountaintop coal mining and ocean polluting and fossil-fuel burning and bombing we might be able to survive as a species.

Anyway, I think the first thing is to put solar panels on every house in the sunbelt areas and get off the grid as soon as possible. The price is always becoming more affordable and the technology is there. All it takes is the will.

05-31-2009, 09:22 PM	#77
Illumination Avalon Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 60	Re: To Do List Hi seashore, Sorry I disappeared - I was fortunate enough to take a vacation for a week. Wow, your list is really growing! Great stuff. Another item that should be very near the top, as everything else is kind of moot, is "address climate change NOW." Some of your list addresses the situation (replacing fossil fuels, free energy, etc.) but there needs to be a massive effort by all governments/peoples to make abrupt changes in the way we live on the planet. A few wind mills and solar panels and hybrid autos are not enough. So many countries are so far ahead of the US in these areas (also using maglev trains, other forms of mass transportation, etc.). Although I think this is a critical issue, there are days when I get depressed about how screwed the planet already is and we have probably passed the tipping point where nothing we humans can do will stop the chaos. The seas are already reverting back to prehistoric levels where large mammals are unable to breathe in the algae infested, polluted waters. Jellyfish are taking over. The glaciers around the world are literally disappearing. And on. But then there are days when I believe Mother Earth might not fling us off herself as fleas on a dog deserve to be. She might balance herself out (whatever that might end up being) and maybe if we stop the mountaintop coal mining and ocean polluting and fossil-fuel burning and bombing we might be able to survive as a species. Anyway, I think the first thing is to put solar panels on every house in the sunbelt areas and get off the grid as soon as possible. The price is always becoming more affordable and the technology is there. All it takes is the will.