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February 12, 2008
Lake Mead Could Be Dry by 2021 "There is a 50 percent chance Lake Mead, a key source of water for millions of people in the southwestern United States, will be dry by 2021 if climate changes as expected and future water usage is not curtailed, according to a pair of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. Without Lake Mead and neighboring Lake Powell, the Colorado River system has no buffer to sustain the population of the Southwest through an unusually dry year, or worse, a sustained drought. In such an event, water deliveries would become highly unstable and variable, said research marine physicist Tim Barnett and climate scientist David Pierce." February 1, 2008 Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy "Slowly but surely, economic growth has become a primary threat to our national security, the environment, and future generations. For some visitors, this idea might seem heretical, but go to our resources page and expect a paradigm shift. Economic growth was a blessing for much of U.S. history, but now it is causing more problems - dire problems - than it solves. Yet economic growth remains the highest priority in the domestic policy arena! Our students and citizens are continually told that there is no limit to economic growth, in defiance of ecological principles and basic physics. We support a sustainable economy that operates within the limits dictated by Earth's ecosystems -- in short we want an economy that is balanced with nature." December 31, 2007 Humanity needs exclusively not-for-profit Drinking Water! Drinking Water is equal to life. We nor any life on Planet Earth (our ONLY spaceship) can survive without clean safe, healthy and available drinking water. Now, it does take money to pump water and to treat water, sometimes to pressurize water and so onsite solar power generation and public ownership guarantees water supplies for all generations to come. Corporations which operate for profit can NEVER BE TRUSTED to control our drinking water sources. I propose that laws be enacted, even a modification to the Constitution to guarantee that no tyrant, no chartered corporation can own and operate for profit any drinking water system. That public utilities are the peoples right and that their operation should be sustainable, energy independent and responsible within universal guidelines. Protecting our water is paramount the survival of the human race. I love you all way too much to allow the few, rich and powerful to exploit the primary resource for life. August 9, 2005 The Corporate Machine Will Eat Itself! They are the irresponsible jerks who dip into your pension fund, who cut your health benefits when you are sick, are poisoning Our Air, Our Water, Our Land and in my mind are of the same breed as feudal lords, corrupt rulers and even slaveholders of the past. We work our asses off for them, they do have to pay us now, but we have to pay some of that back to the government, which gives giant tax subsidies to giant corporations who make billions each month. After all, you got $300. It is only fair that they got $2,700,000,000. Hell, some of those bloodsuckers only make enough to buy one election every 4 years! How will they soon be their own demise? First, I want to acknowledge that some corporations are responsibly run, do not pollute and respect the worker and the consumer too. We reward that behavior by buying their stuff. Those other guys will eat themselves as WE AVOID GIVING THEM OUR MONEY. It IS fun to find ways to spend your money locally, not by multi-national polluters and exploiters. Isn't it satisfying to buy your coffee from the owner of a small cafe in a local place, someone who knows you? Wouldn't it be great to stop paying utility bills forever? We can mindfully spend our money. Those corporations who treat us, their workers, the environment and the economic livlihood of their community well, will prosper because we will choose those over other less responsible corporations. It isn't about a boycott, certainly not only for one day. I propose that every dollar is spent with thought. They tell us that we all cannot have pesticide-free food. They tell us that we would starve if everything we ate was organic. I say that we should let the market respond as it will. I think that it is worth a little more money NOT to feed my precious child pesticides, growth hormones, antibiotics, unhappy animals and all the other horrors the fast food run corporate aggra-culture wants to feed us, SO THEY CAN MAKE MORE MONEY. There is a not-so-hidden cost to our messed up mainstream food system: poisoned water, air pollution leading to billions and lives lost in healthcare costs, arrable land made barren, waste of fresh water, additional cost to clean drinking water. All of these costs are DUMPED on us by "those" corporations which mean direct PROFITS for them. Oh, and they are taking away your dental coverage to cut costs, too. Oh, and by way of a segue into the rest of the page (previously posted), that fertilizer they say they desperately can't grow food without, is made from fossil fuels...(coincidence, I am sure) Independence from Petroleum! We will always have energy requirements, but our energy does not have to come from petroleum. We send vast amounts of our wealth overseas for oil. We pollute our environment by burning oil. We invest vast human and military resources to ensure our oil supply. Viable, renewable alternatives are available now! more steps to take A community project: Renewable
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Miles per Dollar Here is my personal crisis: I AM one of the ugly polluters on Earth. I drive my car, I use fossil fuels, I am part of the problem. My wife and I both work hard, we earn good money, but we can’t seem to get out of the cycle. We are still part of the problem. What am I hopeful for? The bright bright spirits of our children which, if kept intact, will fill the World with light and burn away the rot of the past. What concerns me the most? The death throes of the power structure of the 4th Sun. Those corporate dinosaurs who see profit as their god and an economic system which demands constant growth might still spell doom for our environment. You know the place, the only place we have, to live.more Lulled to Sleep. For less than 100 years, the soothing, warm hum of a car has been amongst many people’s first sensations, along with mom and dad on the way home from the hospital. more Hubbert's Peak describes how the total quantity of oil on Earth is finite. Petroleum production will reach a peak, after which it will never surpass that maximum peak. (U.S. oil production has already passed its peak.) Oil production will fall as the most economical reserves are exhausted. Oil prices will rise. If our economy is based on a non-renewable fuel source and the production falls, then our economy will decline. We have to adapt our economy to run on renewable energy. For Our Information: U.S. Oil According to the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration: The United States had 22.4 billion barrels of proved oil reserves as of 1 January 2002. During 2002, the United States is estimated to be producing around 8.2 million barrels per day, among the lowest in 50 years. In 2000, there were 534,000 producing oil wells in the United States. The United States is consuming about 19.7 million barrels per day of oil in 2002; nearly half is motor gasoline. The United States imported 11.2 million barrels per day in the first 9 months of 2002, around 57% of total U.S. oil demand. As of 12 November 2002, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve contained around 590 million barrels of oil. That quantity is enough oil for the U.S. for around 30 days at current levels of consumption. Even with rationing the reserve is only good for months and would be mostly used by the military anyway. |
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E R E S T :
Will The End of Oil Mean The End of
America?
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Robert Freeman, Published on Monday,
March 1, 2004 by CommonDreams.org There’s been a lot of hype about fuel-cell cars, but there haven’t been many vehicles. S. David Freeman is pushing an overlooked technology that would help us kick our oil habit today. By Cosmo Garvin America's
Economy Could Profit From Renewable Energy: Congress
Moving Backwards As States Move Forward On Energy Policy
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internet. Let your voice be heard! Economies for Life by David C. Korten Just Say No To Oil: A Ten Year Plan to End the War on Terrorism By Lawrence Hagerty, November 13, 2001 Question everything you have been told at TRUTH-NOW. |
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