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Keep the green articles coming!
Living in the US at the time, we celebrated the victory over Communism, and claimed that we won the Cold War.
My friends in the Ukraine explained to me that they learned that Russia and its allies won the Cold War, and following that time, the USSR was not needed, which is why it was dismantled, replaced by a loose confiliation called the CIS.
Having had the opportunity to spend the majority of the 20 years following the Fall of the Wall (and the end of the Cold War) living and working in Central Eastern Europe, I believe that no one WON the Cold War, but one side lost somwhat more than the other.
History will tell us what the real result was, and who the real winners and losers were.
How baffled would they be seeing rocks and other surfaces painted white?
This is like throwing a veil over the hole in the wall to cover it up, and thinking that the wind won't blow in anymore.
We need to cure the disease, not just appease the symptoms.
Since the Senate confirmed Pizarchik, we must assume that either there was a deal cut, or that he convinced the Senate that he has turned a new leaf.
Since the decision has been made, it is not up to the people (and NGOs and representatives - essentially anyone and everyone concerned) to keep an eye on his actions, and bring to light faults and deficiencies. People can be great watchdogs, enabling checks to be continuous.
I put solar panels on my roof 9 years ago. The government didn't tell me to, they didn't even subsidize them. But as a result, I get hot water for free. (I pay for the water, but heating it is free.)
I not only recycle, but I run a curbside recycling company that is icking up and recycling about 2 tons of plastic and 5 tons of paper every week, from about 500 apartment buildings. No government subsidies or requirements here either.
I run a composting site, which converts sewage sludge and green waste into top-rate compost material, which makes our grass and trees greener, turning more and more CO2 into O. No subsidies here either.
If everyone were doing their part, really doing it, not just talking about it, then there would be no question about whether or not man needed to right his wrongs, since we would be doing our part.
I can agree with you about that many rich are not practicing what they preach. But many are not even preaching. And none of them is going to convince me to stop doing what I'm doing, since I am convinced that I am doing something good.
Since politicians have such low approval ratings, I would hope that my ratings are higher, and that they should be looking to me to set a good example.
(OK, I agree that it shouldn't work this way, but why not show them the way, rather than criticizing them for making a bad map?)
It seems all too easy to forget that CFCs used to be the most feared GHG. Then along came the Clear Air Act, and international cooperation got rid of most of them.
Would you deny that CFCs were man made? Or that CFCs were causing thinning of the Ozone layer? Ask someone from New Zealand what they think about it?
People can argue as much as they want about whether climate change is totally or partially man made, but at the end of the day, you can take steps to clean up your neighborhood and business. Those steps will help the environment and your pocketbook. So why resist? Why throw stones at Gore if you could use that energy to do something good?
Good news!
But seriously, carpooling is a great method of reducing emissions, even in the winter.
Regarding money, remember that the majority of green investments made are made to save money. And most environmental investments have a relatively short return on investment.
I have had solar panels on my roof for 8 years now, and I have saved more than their cost in elecricity bills for heating water. My garbage bill is lower because I recycle.
No, I haven't bought a hybrid car yet. But if I buy a new car, it will be a hybrid.
And if we calculated the real costs of "cheap products" (including the cost of cleaning up the air and water and soil, and paying for medical treatment caused by pollution, etc.), then the cheap products would be more expensive than the green products.
The green movement is here to stay, since everyone produces waste, regardless how they vote. And we are dealing with our own destiny here.
Sooner or later I hope that every day will be Earth Day, since that will be the real victory for all of us!
We need to turn the tap off while we brush our teeth, and we need to take showers rather than baths, and etc., not just once a year, but every day.
But let's be happy that we have achieved the awareness of having people all over the globe taking notice, and trying to work together. The first step was taken two decades ago - when the first Earth Day was organized - and this is the second step on a long trip to our destiny.
Let's get Obama credit where credit is deserved: 1) He admitted to being HUMAN (in spite of his rock star appeal on Inauguration Day), and 2) He was willing to go on FOX. (There are plenty of politicians and other "leaders" whom I have never heard speak freely, but only reading their pre-prepared text from a piece of paper, perhaps not even written by them.)
I hope that the Obama Administration will be careful to formulate their strategies not "AGAINST", but rather "TOWARDS" Moscow, as well as any other country willing to cooperate and work TOGETHER with us.
It is high time that we all work towards creating a safer, better, more livable world, in the interest and benefit of ALL mankind, not just few rich and privileged. We can all do our own little part to make it a better world, and we can all expect our elected leaders to follow such expectations as well.
This does not mean that there is no danger out there. But we don't need to create any more monsters than those which really exist.
Will events like this make them want to be crooks when the grow up?
No one is perfect, for sure, but then again, not everyone wants up to look up to them, and have us accept them as LEADERS.
Where I live and work, if I am more than 2 months behind in paying taxes, the tax authorities just take it off my account. If I don't have enough money left over to pay wages, then that's just bad luck, but not many people could say they "forgot" to pay on time. But then again, the IRS is much more friendly ... :-)
I am reminded of an old Love Boat episode on which two businessmen lost their fortunes by printing a lot of Olympics T-Shirts with the wrong year on them. But it wasn't chique to donate to the poor back then.
Now we have a lot of people who feel fine buying their consciences by donating things that don't have a real value anyway.
In a creative world, there would probably be a couple entrepeneurs waiting to engrave on site, and iron T-Shirt on the spot, and I am sure that people would wait and pay top dollar for them.
What happens to poor kids' egos when they realize that their clothes are essentially economic mistakes?
You are right - the story makes one feel ill.
:-(