Global Warming a Security Risk (long)

[Guest guest]

I've never understood the differences between the generations of the

early 20th century. For instance, my grandparents lived through the

depression, and conservation was a natural at their house. Conserving

water, electricity, food - everything was watched carefully. Also, my

grandmother was adement about chemicals and their uses -- very little,

very carefully, and beware of the future when these chemicals cover

everything.

 

In other words my grandparents and those older folks when I grew up

where into all natural first, and chose synthetic options only when

absolutely necessary. Food, fertilizers, medical, etc. Being green

wasn't being hippy, or tree hugger, or anything but smart.

 

Now my parents' generation are completely about chemicals, and my own

mother distrusts anything that isn't preserved with compounds she

can't pronounce. I remember a neighbor actually pouring gasoline on

poison ivy to kill it. My parents, and my teachers when I was in

school, tended to view natural as counter-culture, or something to be

suspect. How did that happen?

 

Maybe people will slowly begin to see that being " Green " doesn't have

to be political, or crazy (read eco-terrorists), but just plain smart

for everyone.

 

It benefits our capitalist society to take better care of our planet,

but for some reason, mega-corporations won't see that. They'd rather

destroy natural resources and then move on. Look how they've moved all

our jobs out of the US. (Oh that burns me!)

 

Anyway, there's my 2bit. lol

 

Have a good Sunday.

Oregon weather is chilly and wet today.

 

 

Melissa

[Guest guest]

Now my parents' generation are completely about chemicals, and my own

mother distrusts anything that isn't preserved with compounds she

can't pronounce. I remember a neighbor actually pouring gasoline on

poison ivy to kill it. My parents, and my teachers when I was in

school, tended to view natural as counter-culture, or something to be

suspect. How did that happen? ¶

 

[Dave:] It didn’t happen overnight. A big shift occurred after WWII. It

was a prosperous time, which was heady to those who remembered the Great

Depression and the War. In the 1950s, everything was New And Improved! The

freeways got built, cars and gas were cheap, and people began to move

around. Even though it was Eisenhower who sonorously warned about the

“military-industrial complex,” that’s not what people were thinking about.

Suburbs were springing up, and people were moving into them. It was all

about chrome and formica. The postwar period was a brief golden age for the

so-called American Dream, but it was already in trouble. People were

rebelling against the status quo, but that doesn’t mean they made better

choices. Today, we’re in a real pickle. Some of the choices that should

have been made 50 or 100 years ago are now out of our hands.

 

 

 

 

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