Thursday, April 9, 2015

Just a Handful of Headlines and Links, One Day in April, 2015

PARTIAL list of EcoWatch's Daily Email:

How Hot Would It Get If We Burned All Our Fossil Fuels?

http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/09/burn-fossil-fuels-climate-change/?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=b2ff47caa7-Top_News_4_9_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-b2ff47caa7-85935149

The answer? "A stunning 16.2 degrees. So far, since the industrial revolution, the Earth has warmed by 1.7 degrees, already causing rising sea levels, heat waves, droughts and extreme weather events."

First Florida, Now Wisconsin, Bans the Words ‘Climate Change’

This is Orwell's 1984. Really, striking words, even a critical scientifically-proven mechanism, from state language? This will be a shameful milestone in America's history, when people will look back and find some of the most narrow-brained idiots in modern history.

http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/09/florida-wisconsin-ban-words-climate-change/?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=b2ff47caa7-Top_News_4_9_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-b2ff47caa7-85935149

Secret Videos Expose Chevron’s Corruption in Ecuadorian Oil Spill

Read about "...decades of contamination in the Ecuadorian Amazon." Oil companies, 'trust us, trust us (wink)." Haha, not.

http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/09/chevron-whistleblower-leaks-videos/?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=b2ff47caa7-Top_News_4_9_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-b2ff47caa7-85935149

Dramatic Increases of Cancer-Causing Radon in PA Homes Linked to Fracking

Does this need a caption, or comment?

I've already blogged about the short-sighted, thirsty, destructive, prolonging-our-obsolete-polluting fossil-fuel binge nastiness of fracking a good bit here

http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/09/radon-linked-to-fracking/?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=b2ff47caa7-Top_News_4_9_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-b2ff47caa7-85935149

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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.