Tuesday, January 1, 2008

happy new year

Happy New Year from San Diego. We hope things will get better in 2008 and that people will come to their senses and understand what it is they are doing to their existence. Not to the planet, because I am sure the planet has many millions of years left, with or without us. But to ourselves and our ability to survive here. Looking around the odds are not good. Too much is invested in the status quo. We are talking billions of dollars in infrastructure that is dependent on cars, airplanes and other wasteful mechanical means. Dependent on water being pumped in from hundreds of miles away. Water that is ever scarcer because we are depleting the storage tanks known as aquifers.

Food that needs to be trucked in. Food that requires 10 calories of carbon energy for every calorie of sunlight energy. Food that requires water that isn't there. And food that is packaged with layers and layers of plastics, cardboard boxes, jars, cans, etc. To say nothing of the miles we drive just to get it from the supermarket. And the carbon dioxide emitted from running our freezers and fridges.

We will think about that tomorrow again. Today, we celebrate. Happy 2008

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