Virtual Residency, Day Thirteen, a "Sense" of Environmental Justice?
Reuters reports that there are a lot of lawsuits on the way, mostly against the USA, over global warming http://tinyurl.com/on5an. The caveat is that they will be hard to prove.
I escaped the virtual world today. Instead, I spent the morning hauling rocks around in my garden and pulling "weeds"- invasive exotic pasture grasses and "wildflowers" from the midwestern prairies I had once innocently planted and are now well on thier way to also being invasive. In the garden, I ate the first raspberries, the first hints of fall to come, way too early in the season. When I was done working in the garden, I studied the far islands. The goal of my garden is to blend the view from the foreground of domesticated nature to the far distance, like a long legato arpeggio of visual effects. Boreal forests have muted ones. Parts of my garden are slightly too vivid to be 'authentic".
Back in my house, practiced Puccini arpeggios, trying to imagine matching my voice to the gulls here. The world we know is a composite of all our senses. The sense are an artists playground.
As far as I know, there is no barometer in the constellations of physcal sensory experiences we have that tell us the world is slightly "off" today, yet most of us intuit when there's something "wrong".
But if island nations are sinking as waters rise from global warming, they don't need any abstract intuitive barometers. They are losing land. We do know some people are directly to blame, as the chief of Exxon who deliberately funded misinformation. But can someone like that be held resposible? When elections aren't enuf. short of war, we rely on legal systems. It will be interesting to see how far these cases go. How far can you follow the trajectory of responsibility for the effects of global warming?
I escaped the virtual world today. Instead, I spent the morning hauling rocks around in my garden and pulling "weeds"- invasive exotic pasture grasses and "wildflowers" from the midwestern prairies I had once innocently planted and are now well on thier way to also being invasive. In the garden, I ate the first raspberries, the first hints of fall to come, way too early in the season. When I was done working in the garden, I studied the far islands. The goal of my garden is to blend the view from the foreground of domesticated nature to the far distance, like a long legato arpeggio of visual effects. Boreal forests have muted ones. Parts of my garden are slightly too vivid to be 'authentic".
Back in my house, practiced Puccini arpeggios, trying to imagine matching my voice to the gulls here. The world we know is a composite of all our senses. The sense are an artists playground.
As far as I know, there is no barometer in the constellations of physcal sensory experiences we have that tell us the world is slightly "off" today, yet most of us intuit when there's something "wrong".
But if island nations are sinking as waters rise from global warming, they don't need any abstract intuitive barometers. They are losing land. We do know some people are directly to blame, as the chief of Exxon who deliberately funded misinformation. But can someone like that be held resposible? When elections aren't enuf. short of war, we rely on legal systems. It will be interesting to see how far these cases go. How far can you follow the trajectory of responsibility for the effects of global warming?
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