In the U.S. we have the Toxic Release Inventory. Companies are required to estimate their release of hundreds of toxic compounds. The searchable TRI data can help local residents find out about waste wafting their way from local companies. Millions of tons of hazardous waste blows through urban areas each year, waiting to settle on the landscape, or in our lungs, a direct subsidy of corporate malfeasance and sacrificing our health for their benefit. Any nation that cannot provide free health care should not allow the sickening of the population. How can we tolerate the oppression of the masses for far off interests that may never return capital to the region? The old way thinking that brought us the bank collapse, that has revealed multiple layers of corruption and graft, threatens to bamboozle the least educated citizens to give the wealthy another chance! We have seen what the results of their flagrant violations of economic forces that deem necessary, customers. Remember them? Those are the folks who feel confident enough and wealthy enough to spend. When we understand that each and every dollar we spend is a vote, we will change the theatre of the debate.
Just as we need to confront the lies told us by the rich and powerful, we need to change the rhetoric to reflect better sense of the issues. Illegal immigration has dropped precipitously as our economy has hit the skids. Into the oceans go sharks who claim that colored people are costing our society millions and these folks need to be deported. All this fight over a tiny fraction of the workforce? Ten times that cost would be realized when the cash economy is taken into account. Add to this the untaxed barter economy and you have something to sneeze at, but how would it sell to the cowboy identity we give ourselves in this culture? We collectively try to run about five miles per hour over the speed limit and get frustrated when folks ahead want to go the limit. All of these go into the ocean of reality that ebbs and flows around us daily. When we turn on the tube, or LCD matrix, we continue to see truck commercials. pedal to the metal past peak oil. The spewing that we do today has a lasting responsibility. We need to think carefully before we reach out into the marketplace, to pluck only what we need. Much has been made of distributing our money locally. One of the greatest savings is packaging. Less packaging will always reduce waste. Keeping waste under control by pre-cycling makes the most economic and environmental sense!
It is long past time for the perspective of truth to be something that everyone in politics is aware of. A group representing 80% of nuns has gone on record to implore that the energy people are spending focusing on one issue, abortion be put into solving other pressing issues that lose out to a "star" evil, or inhumanity. What about the inhumanity of poverty? The elderly? Abuse & neglect? Justice demands that we not hide behind any single issue, we have to do far more! Putting our crap out into the world around us only guarantees that everyone else will eventually get the shitty side of the stick. It is truly a lose lose situation. the time has come for the ultra wealthy to come to heel. The poor and middle class are tired of getting poo on our shoes, (and worse!) the lies perpetrated by the ultra-wealthy. Just as the "Moral Majority" was neither, the Tea Party push to getting obstructionist representatives in Congress has a dismal track record. They have been hurt by their own success. It is untenable to argue that the best we had to hope for was to make sure nothing gets done. It is embarrassing! By denying the truth, or even just turning your back on it, the public will find out. If we are all very lucky, we will find out sooner rather than later. Time has come for us to stop polluting the areas around us with perversions and lies. Many of the lies have been repeated so often as to have gained a "life" of their own. deception feeds on ignorance and by making us all feel so overextended, we can be dissuaded from basic investigation.
Clearing up facts dictates that many of us change our minds about serious questions. I, myself and many others, believe that we will make better decisions if we are down to earth, not floating on the gigantic ocean mat of plastic that has developed in the Pacific. There is no away. I can't quote Buckminster Fuller enough, "There are no passengers on Starship Earth, we are all crew."
We can no longer tolerate the tone of the debate being misguided by lies. Those who reap the benefits of corporate welfare sure as hell don't want to let that go. No one said not to expect a fight, no matter what changes get made, you will rock someone's boat. Grow up! The vast majority have sacrificed in thousands of tiny ways. Here's one last bit of truth. The reason that full service gas is virtually non-existent is because by spreading the cost of benzene poisoning over the largest number of people in the population, Federal Regulators could make it possible for the pumpers of gasoline no longer liable for health effects from the dispensing of these precious fluids. Keep in mind that if you stand by the pump, as required, benzene will be detectable on your breath for five hours! Gasoline dispensers did not want to be liable for harm, so the only option was to spread the risk out amongst the largest number of people. Since I found this out, I have done two things to limit my exposure, drive less and less and drive more and more efficient vehicles! This in turn improves the local environment. how much? I don't know, but multiplied by millions, or perhaps many billions, I'm sure it is worht the conscious effort! This week I have to turn down work because it is too far away Cost of transport for 100+ miles per day would drain away any benefit that I could receive from work. The greatest blessing may be the lack of pumping a bunch more fumes into the atmosphere!
Just as we need to confront the lies told us by the rich and powerful, we need to change the rhetoric to reflect better sense of the issues. Illegal immigration has dropped precipitously as our economy has hit the skids. Into the oceans go sharks who claim that colored people are costing our society millions and these folks need to be deported. All this fight over a tiny fraction of the workforce? Ten times that cost would be realized when the cash economy is taken into account. Add to this the untaxed barter economy and you have something to sneeze at, but how would it sell to the cowboy identity we give ourselves in this culture? We collectively try to run about five miles per hour over the speed limit and get frustrated when folks ahead want to go the limit. All of these go into the ocean of reality that ebbs and flows around us daily. When we turn on the tube, or LCD matrix, we continue to see truck commercials. pedal to the metal past peak oil. The spewing that we do today has a lasting responsibility. We need to think carefully before we reach out into the marketplace, to pluck only what we need. Much has been made of distributing our money locally. One of the greatest savings is packaging. Less packaging will always reduce waste. Keeping waste under control by pre-cycling makes the most economic and environmental sense!
It is long past time for the perspective of truth to be something that everyone in politics is aware of. A group representing 80% of nuns has gone on record to implore that the energy people are spending focusing on one issue, abortion be put into solving other pressing issues that lose out to a "star" evil, or inhumanity. What about the inhumanity of poverty? The elderly? Abuse & neglect? Justice demands that we not hide behind any single issue, we have to do far more! Putting our crap out into the world around us only guarantees that everyone else will eventually get the shitty side of the stick. It is truly a lose lose situation. the time has come for the ultra wealthy to come to heel. The poor and middle class are tired of getting poo on our shoes, (and worse!) the lies perpetrated by the ultra-wealthy. Just as the "Moral Majority" was neither, the Tea Party push to getting obstructionist representatives in Congress has a dismal track record. They have been hurt by their own success. It is untenable to argue that the best we had to hope for was to make sure nothing gets done. It is embarrassing! By denying the truth, or even just turning your back on it, the public will find out. If we are all very lucky, we will find out sooner rather than later. Time has come for us to stop polluting the areas around us with perversions and lies. Many of the lies have been repeated so often as to have gained a "life" of their own. deception feeds on ignorance and by making us all feel so overextended, we can be dissuaded from basic investigation.
Clearing up facts dictates that many of us change our minds about serious questions. I, myself and many others, believe that we will make better decisions if we are down to earth, not floating on the gigantic ocean mat of plastic that has developed in the Pacific. There is no away. I can't quote Buckminster Fuller enough, "There are no passengers on Starship Earth, we are all crew."
We can no longer tolerate the tone of the debate being misguided by lies. Those who reap the benefits of corporate welfare sure as hell don't want to let that go. No one said not to expect a fight, no matter what changes get made, you will rock someone's boat. Grow up! The vast majority have sacrificed in thousands of tiny ways. Here's one last bit of truth. The reason that full service gas is virtually non-existent is because by spreading the cost of benzene poisoning over the largest number of people in the population, Federal Regulators could make it possible for the pumpers of gasoline no longer liable for health effects from the dispensing of these precious fluids. Keep in mind that if you stand by the pump, as required, benzene will be detectable on your breath for five hours! Gasoline dispensers did not want to be liable for harm, so the only option was to spread the risk out amongst the largest number of people. Since I found this out, I have done two things to limit my exposure, drive less and less and drive more and more efficient vehicles! This in turn improves the local environment. how much? I don't know, but multiplied by millions, or perhaps many billions, I'm sure it is worht the conscious effort! This week I have to turn down work because it is too far away Cost of transport for 100+ miles per day would drain away any benefit that I could receive from work. The greatest blessing may be the lack of pumping a bunch more fumes into the atmosphere!
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