Nice Weather We're Having - NOT!
Time is not on our side. What we have sown, we shall reap. The question is do we want to keep planting the same polluted seeds and make matters even more dire? It is unfortunate that most people and governments seem to need a calamity before they will act to solve a problem. Can we afford to wait for another climatic catastrophe before we get our act together? How many will have to die in some weather disaster before we believe what the leading scientists of the world are telling us?
The White House said that they are considering the information but see no change forthcoming in policy. How arrogant! Will the weather killing field have to strike even more on U.S. shores before our so-called leaders wake up? Katrina wasn't enough so what will it take? We cannot afford not to act because the cost of potential and probable disaster will far exceed any cost to address greenhouse gas emissions now. Retrofit is always more costly than building from the ground up. Exxon's recent profit statement makes it obvious that money is available from the oil giants to tackle the pressing issues now.
What good are record profits without a world to spend them in?
Can we truly afford to wait for governments to 'study' the findings and then take years to debate the facts? We are near, if not already past, the climatic tipping point. If the climate begins to spiral out of control, nothing we do will stop it for generation upon generation to come. That, of course, assumes there will even be generations. We have the technology to make change now. Setting standards that will not be met for ten or twenty years will be too late. Look at the rate of industrialization in China. They are using the very technologies that got us into this mess in the first place. Add Africa and Asia to the mix and we are really in deep trouble if we do not halt the use of greenhouse emitting technologies now. The world cannot afford another industrial revolution unless it is based on renewable and non polluting energy sources.
The citizens of the U.S. and the world must demand immediate action on the parts of their respective governments to end the polluting madness. We are talking about our lives and those of our children and grandchildren. This issue is not some distant event. This issue is now!
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Mr. Harris was born in Massachusetts. He attended The American University in Washington, D.C. and received his degree in Political Science. His graduate work was done at the University of Northern Colorado and Howard University. While in D.C., he spent several years working for local and regional government agencies. Upon moving to Maine he worked with three governors and served as the Assistant Director of the Maine State Planning Office. He worked on a White House Task Force for the development of a National Rural Policy and later served as Rural Policy Coordinator at the Federal Regional Council of New England. He has worked on gubernatorial and senatorial political campaigns and currently works in Special Education.
Mr. Harris is co-author of the novel WAKING GOD and is a nationally syndicated and featured writer for The American Chronicle. He is working on Book II of the Waking God trilogy and writing features for literary E-zines. His second novel, A MAINE CHRISTMAS CAROL has been released by Cambridge Books. Contributing writer for UPI's Religion&Spirituality web site.
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