.JPG "Earthen Spirituality")
Living within a living, loving planet
Archive for October 27, 2012
Did Climate Change Help Create ‘Frankenstorm’?
Oct 27th
By Stephen Lacey and Joe Romm on Oct 26, 2012 at 2:28 pm
“Coastal areas[US] may be hit with storm surges of up to 6 feet, potentially reaching the highest levels ever recorded. The storm could last as long as 4-6 days, bleeding into the election.
The storm comes at a unique time politically. In August, the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida was disrupted by strong rain and flooding caused by Hurricane Isaac. Two days later in his acceptance speech, Mitt Romney mocked President Obama’s pledge to deal with climate change and “slow the rise of the oceans” — causing uproarious laughter among delegates. And for the first time since 1988, the presidential candidates did not talk about climate change during debates — even as data shows that the U.S. is experiencing the most extreme weather ever recorded.
‘The climate has shifted to a new state capable of delivering rare and unprecedented weather events,” explained meteorologist Jeff Masters earlier this year.’”
Shouldn’t this be a wake-up call?
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151210607037708&set=a.136077452707.110998.12185972707&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf
Economic Death Trip
Oct 27th
Richard (RJ) Eskow, Op-Ed: “Nationalism and rage have been on the rise as countries like Greece have been forced to accept humiliating economic deals in order to stay afloat, one of which is to make repaying bankers a higher national priority than serving its own citizens. That’s where austerity inevitably leads: the overruling of democratic process by financial elites. Americans have been remarkably tolerant of the economic hardship imposed on them so far.”
http://www.nationofchange.org/europe-s-agony-could-become-our-future-under-mitt-romney-1351266242
It would be a mistake to think the rage isn’t there. The evidence is there. I see it in the Yahoo pinochle and euchre games I play. Over the last two or three years the balking, delaying, cursing, claims of cheating, unpleasantness is the norm now rather than the exception. Fear of hard times and possible poverty blank out kindness and fair play. There are the abusive shouts and pressure placed on young boys in little league, for instance.
Cooperation is buried in efforts to get what you can while the getting is possible, not good, just possible. Of course it is almost impossible to measure suppressed rage, but look around, think about it when you are observing behaviour and I suspect you will find it lurking under the unkind and inconsiderate behaviour around you. I believe, even when there is compliance and the lack of criticism, that most people know when they are being marginalised and exploited by corporates; banks especially. They feel it in the belly and it gest stored up and often becomes suppressed rage that erupts in some future event. Perhaps it is healthier to bitch, protest peaceably and speak out against injustice.