[Oe List ...] George's Response to Del

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Thank you, George, for bringing us to the primary issue of climate change.  
I looked at my front lawn this morning and thought, "This is the time to 
dig it  up and plant a native, drought tolerant ground cover of some kind. Our 
ground  water in the San Joaquin Valley is polluted with nitrates, but it's 
still  precious. Hopefully, some young people are working on purifying it. 
Thankfully,  we have a good snow pack so far this season. I pray for rain 
(and sanity) for my  native state of Texas. Hope appeareth indeed.
 
And thank you, Del, for starting this discussion.
 
Blessings,
Jann McGuire
 
 
In a message dated 1/9/2013 8:52:29 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
geowanda at earthlink.net writes:

Yes,  everything seems to be in contention.  From gun control to how do we  
address the rapidly growing inequity between rich and poor, but the matter  
that will put all of this as secondary is global climate change.  What is  
happening in Australia, the island nations, rise of seas, the Arctic melt 
and  increasing acidity of the oceans, the violent weather, Sandy in the U.S., 
 Cyclone season in other parts of the world and last years Tornado season,  
expanding desertification and loss of potable water is going to change  
everything very quickly.    


Last night at our community meeting the question of water rates came up  
and the resident who serves on several state and federal water regulation and  
study groups, jumped to his feet and announced that what we are paying for  
water is a 4th of what it's worth and the cost will rise rapidly in the 
coming  year,  He also pleaded for everyone to stop watering their lawns, 
saying  that's our drinking water. I'd never seen such passion coming from this 
cool,  reasonable mediator type before.   It is more than likely that the 
water  sold to rice farmers in South Texas will be cut off because the lakes 
and  aquifers around Austin are at historic lows and even if there were 
sustained  heavy rains it would not fill the lakes or recharge the aquifers.  


In as much as the wealthy and corporate interests have large stakes in  
keeping the exploitation of natural resources and pollution levels as they  
are, or even increasing them, what is unfolding is breaking all of the models  
of sustainability and, in proportion,  governance and life style.  It is 
likely that, in my thinking, that locality will become more  contentious and 
some of the questions that will be driving things will be how  can I protect 
what I have.  Facilitators might want to consider how to  implement ways to 
aid the wealthy and the corporate world in how to step back  from exploiting 
consumerism and become expert in conservation and slimming  down as a way to 
profitability.  Just as a way was found to eliminate  CFCs for the most 
part and other chemicals creating the Ozone hole, I imagine  something similar 
may begin to occupy the powers that have ignored climate  change so far, 
which will have an enormous effect on how business and  governance is done, and 
will effect everyone's life style and economics,  particularly if these 
measures do not work.  Some of the climatologist  feel we passed the tipping 
point.  If this be true, what are the models  for living on the other side of 
that?  Maybe some of our young folk are  already working on that.


 
 
 
 
 
George  Holcombe
14900 Yellowleaf Tr.
Austin, TX 78728
Mobile  512/252-2756
_geowanda at earthlink.net_ (mailto:geowanda at earthlink.net) 


Hope  appeareth, but it is not your Hope—you do not have anything to do  
with it. It just appeareth. It comes as a stranger, as an alien—it  just 
appeareth! You do not even know why you hope. How in the  world could you hope 
when there is absolutely nothing to justify  any hope?    ~Joseph W. Mathews

















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