So there's this news that the White House may have had their oil, ranching, timber and coal fingers in the pies of scientists. Mostly, global warming pies. And those are such lovely pies to have this time of year. It's important to note that not a lot of people responded to the questionnaire, so we might be looking at the ones who are disgruntled enough to write. Or our Yalie ranch hand might be working the same strings that gave us resistance to stem cell research, yellow cake uranium in Africa and weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Not a good track record to try to recover from.
In related green news, this article also popped up after I left Hotmail. It's long, and it covers a lot of bases. . . as long things will do.
Drop by the Union of Concerned Scientists to check out actual facts by people who actually study all of this. And in the interests of study, I've finally finished Environmentalism for a New Millennium. I figure it took me so long because I was entirely drawn in, dry as it might be. Key terms: interdependence and coevolution. These are ways to think about being in the world. Sadly, while a whole lot of us understand that we're interdependent and moving along together, few of us do anything about it. Everyone here recycles? Walks or bikes to work? Vegetarians? Buy local food from small providers? Oh, you know the list. The point, though (at least for Thiele), is that we don't do the things we know we should. And please don't remind me about my Amazon orders. Fucking hell.
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