Monday, August 22, 2005
Pollution...
This first item is just funny.
Why do "environmentalisits" spend so much time worried about specious stuff like 'global warming' when genuine and acutely lethal hazards like this are out there.
And global warming remains as confusing as ever. Laurie David at HuffPo notes that the July heatwave is obvious evidence. I see, so there were never heatwaves before industrialization. Meanwhile, the Beeb reports that climate change is for the birds. Finally, both the Beeb and Scientific American report that climate change may have played a significant role in the evolution of mankind. And here I thought that we were responsible for it, and that it was gong to spell our demise. I am so confused.
I know just when I started to feel like one of Barnum's one-a-minutes. Years ago, our bathroom sink started draining slowly, and my wife ordered some eco-friendly drain cleaner from a catalog. What showed up looked like it belonged less in the pipes than in the hamster cage. Earnestly we read and followed the instructions, which directed us to dump this mish-mash of twigs and dirt down the drain and wait for its magical, bio-logical cleaning action to take place.One has to wonder what a leftie is to do when they have competing causes. The latest comes from Mexico where efforts to save an endangered turtle have run afoul of womens rights group. No, really -- check it out. The biodiversity crowd is having a similar congnitive dissonance when it comes to the military. Don't you hate it when your casues are inconsistent? This; however, is simply an environmental effort gone horribly wrong.
Patience has never been my long suit. After half an hour of watching the water refuse to drain from our little Zen bog, I grabbed a wrench and removed the J-trap, now clogged with enough humus to cover the floor of an ancient bonsai forest. Then I dumped the whole mess in the compost bin. The incantation I muttered lacked reverence.
Why do "environmentalisits" spend so much time worried about specious stuff like 'global warming' when genuine and acutely lethal hazards like this are out there.
And global warming remains as confusing as ever. Laurie David at HuffPo notes that the July heatwave is obvious evidence. I see, so there were never heatwaves before industrialization. Meanwhile, the Beeb reports that climate change is for the birds. Finally, both the Beeb and Scientific American report that climate change may have played a significant role in the evolution of mankind. And here I thought that we were responsible for it, and that it was gong to spell our demise. I am so confused.
