Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Replacing Conservatives With Greens

EVERYONE WHO LIVES close to the ocean knows that the sea level is rising. In Miami, Florida, at high tide, on a bright and sunny day, there is flooding. People notice things like that. Land owners next to Chesapeake Bay are seeing their shoreline vanish underwater. Pacific Islanders are losing their homes beneath the rising water. I remember waking into a hotel in Hollywood Beach, Florida, and dumbly asking the lady: "where's the ocean?". I had flown to Ft. Lauderdale, landed at the airport, boarded a cab, and been taken straight to the hotel without getting so much as a glimpse of the ocean, and I was out of patience. I was ready for my first view. I recall she looked at me weirdly, and said: "right behind me. Just on the other side of this door." And sure enough, she wasn't lying. To me the ocean looked too close to the building. I wonder if it looks closer now. Does anyone, other than American conservatives, still doubt that climate change is real, or that it is man made? It is maybe about time to capture a huge amount of solar energy, desalinate huge amounts of sea water, and pipe the fresh water into deserts and drought ridden areas, like California? There are toughly three point five trillion trees on the planet. Humans have killed half of what there was. Perhaps it would be a good idea to plant about a trillion trees, over the next couple of years. A circular solar energy collector, maybe a mile or two across, made of aluminum foil, in near Earth orbit, collecting as much energy as we can use or need, twenty four seven. The question is: "why not?". What's stopping us? Do we possibly have a few elected members of the United States congress who accept campaign contributions from fossil fuel corporations? Should we possibly consider voting them out of office, and replacing them with members of the Green party? There is a solar energy boom just on the horizon. It is essential for our very survival that we encourage it as much as possible, rather then hindering it because of a desire to keep money in the hands of the currently wealthy. Let the currently wealthy fossil fuel people divest, and reinvest, just like the rest of us. It can only hurt so much, and the cure will be worth the pain......THANKS FOR JOINING US!

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