Monday, October 19, 2015

A Few News Items Worth Posting: LA is Built Out, Buy the New 2016 Volt, See Interactive Map: Which Cities You Love Will Go Underwater Because of Global Warming and Sea Level Rise

A few recent headlines and stories worth posting.

LA is overbuilt. No more expansion, no more mega housing complexes, no more traffic please.
Anyone who has been on Sunset Boulevard eastbound after 4pm would agree with the Brentwood lawsuit.
Enough.
http://mynewsla.com/government/2015/10/14/brentwood-residents-sue-l-a-over-school-expansion-citing-bad-traffic/?google_editors_picks=true

My 2014 Chevy Volt has been getting 70+mpg since I got it. Love it. Fast, holds its line, fantastic fit and finish. Built in USA. Most days I burn no oil, not a drop of gas. The new Volt adds 10 more miles all electric to the 40-41 I get. And the review says it is even a better all-around car now.
http://www.slashgear.com/2016-chevrolet-volt-first-drive-13409405/

See which US cities will be underwater, when. Link to Climate Change Sea Level interactive map and graph, below and in article.

Type in your city, or the city of a loved one, and see how underwater it will be:
http://choices.climatecentral.org/widget.html#12/40.7600/-74.0501?compare=scenarios&carbon-end-yr=2100&scenario-a=unchecked&scenario-b=extreme-cuts

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/10/12/this-is-how-rising-seas-will-reshape-the-face-of-the-united-states/


"“The potential magnitude of sea-level rise is staggering,” said Michael Oppenheimer, a Princeton University climate researcher who is on the board of Climate Central and says he offered comment on a version of the study. “In the short term, it risks serious disruption of life along the coast while in the long term, it could lead to obliteration of a large and priceless amount of our cultural heritage, worldwide.”

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Sunset, Venice 12/20/2012

Sunset, Venice 12/20/2012
I've been thinking some about the Winter Solstice, the Mayan end of the 30,000-year-cycle on 12/21/12.

What if in fact the world did end? Even though this probably will not happen, to live consciously it is honest for us to take a bit of an inventory.

Am I happy with how I've lived my life? (Yesterday, I thought mostly yes, with some areas for improvement, as below.) Are there changes I would make?
Would I have tried to forgive those that were hostile or disappointing to me?
Would I spend more time with those I loved the most, telling them that, feeling that more?
Would I be happier, grateful for what I have, what I've experienced, the joy, the beauty in this world?

Maybe the answer is yes to all of the above.
So this time can serve as a point of rebirth for all of us. If we think about it.

Because somewhere along the line I realized I think maybe mankind deserves it. !
The way we are killing each other, killing the planet.
How selfish we are, and snotty to those around us. Petty, competitive. Why is this? Do we have to behave this way? (I say no, it greatly detracts and misdirects energy from the full-time celebration in which we could engage, the great multi-cultural, multi-rhythmic dance we can sustain here.)

Maybe God or the Great Universe is fed up, and will pull the rug out from under us.
Don't think I can say we could blame Him/Her/It.

But it probably won't happen. (Probably not! This time.)

Still we are finite on this ride.

It is a time to think, am I happy with how I've lived my life?
Hopefully most of us can say yes.

For the part of us that have a little worry, a little sadness....
This is the time to be present.
This is the time to be the person you want to be, that can die at peace, that can hope to every day be able to look yourself and the Universe in the eye and say, how beautiful, smiling, and thank you. Let's do that.

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