Discuss: A Quartet

The first time my heart really broke over the environment, when I really saw that we were in real trouble, was when a series on the dying seas came out in the L.A. Times.  I cried and my world will never be the same.

I’m going green as fast as I can, and I’m biding my time, thinking about how to bring the subject up to people, without them thinking I’m a crazy.

Gretl Ehrlich’s piece makes me glad I live in New York. Here, facts like global warming and their effects can seem a bit more remote, a bit more abstract. I write ‘seem’ because I know full well that there is nothing remote or abstract about these effects; that they are hidden, obscured, overwhelmed by the weight of the transformed environment. If I lived in a place of exquisite, almost pristine natural beauty, as Ehrlich does, and had to witness its systematic destruction day after month after year, I would walk around in a permanent state of heartbreak.

We have to talk w people about these problems,,They think we are crazy bec they do not hear about this on tv.ieThe weather is on 24/7…no info given about climate..I wonder why it is hard to talk w people about things like this story..maybe we should just jump in and tell people that you have   an article you want to tell them about and get their opinion…It can be surprising how people have caught on.

You are right, jea.  I’m just going to have to bring it up the right way, give them articles, back up what I say with facts, figures, etc.  But in that certain WAY that they’ll listen….

One way for sure is to practise what I preach, which I’m doing. I think we’ve all caught on.

This is beautiful…  and frightening.  It is so well written that I can picture this not too distant future world.  This is one of the most eloquent of warnings.  But I suspect Gretel will be preaching to the choir.  Thankfully, I am still moved to read and appreciate it.  Absolute perfection.

and we called the Indians savage…

I blame the christian religion as the worst perpetrator…

I think that man is the blame 100%. Due to our greed and divisions, there is nothing we will be able to do to stop these things from happening, and improve our environment. Just my $0.02.

Gretel Ehrlich appears to be suffering with massive depression.  I am not surprised that someone who believes all of the alarmist claptrap that activists groups disseminate would be depressed. 

I think she would feel much better if she were to study factual information about the environment and climate carefully.