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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>And thank you, Del, for starting this discussion.</DIV>
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<DIV>Blessings,</DIV>
<DIV>Jann McGuire</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 1/9/2013 8:52:29 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
geowanda@earthlink.net writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>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.
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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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<BR><BR></DIV>
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