I've been watching this discussion...

[May]

How about we stop spraying chemicals that are harmful; stop Monsanto and 
big agra from developing genetically modified crops.  The USDA has done 
nothing to stop this and
we are having real problems with pollinators all over the world.  How 
about we use technology that exists for developing our own energy 
sources - the veritable ocean of oil in mid-America that we can use for 
a couple of centuries.  The technology (and I know about it from someone 
who developed it and it's being used in China and India), can take 
biomass, low grade, high sulfur coal and turn it into non-polluting 
potable water, go through steps in a process that grow food and 
manufactures non-toxic building products.  The company tried to get 
licensing here, but the red tape was too much.

Cleaner technology can be developed over time.  The money we save by 
being energy independent can be used for invention.  What we have now is 
a very small effort, inefficient and expensive.  Personally, I can 
harness a horse and drive it, and that's what I'd prefer to do.  There 
is hydrogen cell technology but you never hear of it because it would 
take money out of someone's pocket.

I'm sorry.  Climate change is a hoax and Al Gore is a profiteering 
buffoon.  People will limit the size of the families as the economies 
get worse.  Don't ask why and don't moan about population.  Do it 
yourself and be your own example.  Reasonableness and moderation in all 
things.

I love my butterflies and moths.  I love my birds and bees. Repeated 
spraying in our area because I live in the midst of a cypress swamp in 
NW FL,  has decimated everything, and one of the culprits I'm sure is an 
incinerator that belongs to the county and has never had the promised 
scrubbers installed.

Stop talking about what you can't control and do something more 
positive..  Do something local.  Take up the slack, find out what 
chemicals are added to your water, how your incinerator works, what 
chemicals are being sprayed, talk to beekeepers.  Make yourself heard at 
county commission meetings or town meetings.  Maybe the chem trails you 
see really are spraying aluminum and other toxins.

The local Audubon tried, and I attended meetings and helped with 
proposals, to stop the county from mowing the wildflowers that grow on 
the easements.  The county refused to listen.

I think the solution is local.

My 2 cents.

May




 
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