Corporations on our side?
I was pleasantly surprised, in Grist today:
http://www.grist.org/news/muck/2006/04/06/griscom-little/index.html?source=daily
to see that corporations are being more sensible that this administration about global warming. They have asked the Energy and Natural Resources Committee for tighter & more consistent regulations on emissions. Diane Feinstein (D) commented that it was the best attended event for this committee she had ever seen.
So the race is on between the pragmatists and the naysayers. My money is on the pragmatists, as the evidence keeps growing for the devastating effects of global warming. they are likely to get louder as time goes on.
Periodically, I consider how these ruminations must sound to someone who isn't an ecological artist. As, my Scottish friend who likes to picture me at my easel, outdoors, painting the far islands.
Sometimes, I wonder myself, about my obsession with global warming these days. For almost two decades I've considered myself a wetlands specialist in my genre. Well, just to restate my thoughts breifly, the earth is my canvas. The variations caused by global warming are like working with a particularly large tool- just enuf out of control to be exciting ( when I'm not petrified by what we are doing).
The connection to wetlands is even simpler. Global warming will swallow the coasts where those systems are clinging for purchase against the pressure of fragmentation. On the other hand, they may be one of our last lines of defense as the storms pick up this decade.
We are in a game of brinksmanship here with nature and some people are determined to play Russian Roulette. As, all in this administration are doing in spades.
If corporations are willing to look at the facts and consumers are willing to listen, we may just have, ironically a payer of hope for our collective future. That would be in stark contrast to an administration that boasts of how prayerful it is.
http://www.grist.org/news/muck/2006/04/06/griscom-little/index.html?source=daily
to see that corporations are being more sensible that this administration about global warming. They have asked the Energy and Natural Resources Committee for tighter & more consistent regulations on emissions. Diane Feinstein (D) commented that it was the best attended event for this committee she had ever seen.
So the race is on between the pragmatists and the naysayers. My money is on the pragmatists, as the evidence keeps growing for the devastating effects of global warming. they are likely to get louder as time goes on.
Periodically, I consider how these ruminations must sound to someone who isn't an ecological artist. As, my Scottish friend who likes to picture me at my easel, outdoors, painting the far islands.
Sometimes, I wonder myself, about my obsession with global warming these days. For almost two decades I've considered myself a wetlands specialist in my genre. Well, just to restate my thoughts breifly, the earth is my canvas. The variations caused by global warming are like working with a particularly large tool- just enuf out of control to be exciting ( when I'm not petrified by what we are doing).
The connection to wetlands is even simpler. Global warming will swallow the coasts where those systems are clinging for purchase against the pressure of fragmentation. On the other hand, they may be one of our last lines of defense as the storms pick up this decade.
We are in a game of brinksmanship here with nature and some people are determined to play Russian Roulette. As, all in this administration are doing in spades.
If corporations are willing to look at the facts and consumers are willing to listen, we may just have, ironically a payer of hope for our collective future. That would be in stark contrast to an administration that boasts of how prayerful it is.
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