Following up the Work
I always imagined that one big blast of insight & vision would transform the world I know. I know better now. Before and after, there are endless phone calls, notes and paperwork to fill out. Offers come in to participate in events and appear at important places with important people, without much recompense and I have to thread my way diplomatically and prudently thru the priorities of what I believe in.
Meanwhile chunks of ice fall into the warming oceans, more polar bears die and penguins may be extinct in the wild soon. And here, back home I need to be sure my bills are still paid on time, my car gets fixed, my animals are happy and I have a chance to recuperate from exhaustion to have another day of work completed, one day at a time.
I have been keeping this blog, albeit intermittently, for almost two years and have gone from feeling like only a few of us are shreiking alarms in the wilderness of global warming, to knowing that millions are now concerned and confused. But the news keeps getting grimmer and more urgent every day.
Today, nation's leaders met at the UN in NYC. Bush was "too busy" to attend. Ahem, no comment. Except to say that any child born in the free world uses 25 times the resources of any child born in the third world.
Bush believes in "voluntary compliance" to address global warming. That only works when perpetrators actually feel the pain they inflict on others. As Bush dickers over the fine print on medically insuring children in this country, the same day he was "too busy" to show up to discuss global warming with his peers, I wonder, does he feel ANY pain, for anything or anyone? And if that indifference is his model for voluntary compliance, then the very words are meaningless. Half the work of following up global warming is in the heart and the spirit.
Meanwhile chunks of ice fall into the warming oceans, more polar bears die and penguins may be extinct in the wild soon. And here, back home I need to be sure my bills are still paid on time, my car gets fixed, my animals are happy and I have a chance to recuperate from exhaustion to have another day of work completed, one day at a time.
I have been keeping this blog, albeit intermittently, for almost two years and have gone from feeling like only a few of us are shreiking alarms in the wilderness of global warming, to knowing that millions are now concerned and confused. But the news keeps getting grimmer and more urgent every day.
Today, nation's leaders met at the UN in NYC. Bush was "too busy" to attend. Ahem, no comment. Except to say that any child born in the free world uses 25 times the resources of any child born in the third world.
Bush believes in "voluntary compliance" to address global warming. That only works when perpetrators actually feel the pain they inflict on others. As Bush dickers over the fine print on medically insuring children in this country, the same day he was "too busy" to show up to discuss global warming with his peers, I wonder, does he feel ANY pain, for anything or anyone? And if that indifference is his model for voluntary compliance, then the very words are meaningless. Half the work of following up global warming is in the heart and the spirit.
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