Jim Thompson said:
We don't need green police. Mother nature is the ultimate enforcer of the
laws of physics and economics. More frequent disasters such as the
earthquake in Haiti and the AGW-induced record snowfalls in the Eastern US
are just a taste of what is still to come. Our economies are strained and
faltering as we attempt to clean up and return to the relative normalcy we
had before, and our resources are quickly depleting as we seek to extract
more fossil-fuel energy by waging war on foreign powers.
And indirectly we are waging war on our own people by creating an unhealthy
environment. We have not properly cleaned up for even the Exxon-Valdez oil
spill, and the real damages to the people affected were never repaid while
Exxon-Mobil reaped record profits. The common people of New Orleans have
not recovered from their tragic disaster. Most Americans have suffered
permanent economic setbacks because of greed and irresponsibility of
government and big business. And the majority of the world's population are
rightfully jealous of those who flaunt their lavish lifestyles.
Being green is just the right thing to do. But at this point it may be just
a personal decision of ethics and morality, and gratuitous opposition by
those who smugly think they know it all will defer any hope of effective
change until it is too late, as it may be already.
Don't worry about the Earth. Our planet and natural phenomena have
eliminated other species before, and no doubt humans will be similarly
eradicated by our own hand or by events too powerful for our technology to
control, and those few who may survive will revert to living in caves.
Paul