Now even dad has tried with the Unc and got no satisfaction. My response:
I think I just threw up in my mouth reading that attachment.
And in regards to communicating on a political level with Unc: It is like going outside and hollaring as loud as you can into the wind -- it will only drain you and achieve nothing. No amount of evidence or reasoned analysis will change his parental like love of George Bush and company. He is too focused, as he wrote me before, on 'towel heads'. It is a sad state, but one so many are trapped in as they shut themselves off to the wonders and horrors and possibilities of the current world around them.
A gentleman from Stanford (a professor) was on Jon Stewart the other night and said, without a doubt scientists consider warming to be happening and generally to be related to human activity especially given the quick change and magnitude of the changes we are seeing. I am sure Dr. Bataille would tell you the same thing. It is a scientific fact as best one can be determined with our amazing world we live on.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=181#more-181
In particular, the available scientific evidence indicates that it is likely that global warming will make - and possibly already is making - those hurricanes that form more destructive than they otherwise would have been.
But the deeper question, as we are of the earth, is what does your heart tell you? There is still a connection there if one is open to it. You ask Unc that and he will breakdown and tell you he cannot think with his heart... I imagine many are like that now - a fundamental disconnect between their mind, body and spirit because it hurts to realize what we are truly doing to our Mother - and to ourselves.
I think I just threw up in my mouth reading that attachment.
And in regards to communicating on a political level with Unc: It is like going outside and hollaring as loud as you can into the wind -- it will only drain you and achieve nothing. No amount of evidence or reasoned analysis will change his parental like love of George Bush and company. He is too focused, as he wrote me before, on 'towel heads'. It is a sad state, but one so many are trapped in as they shut themselves off to the wonders and horrors and possibilities of the current world around them.
A gentleman from Stanford (a professor) was on Jon Stewart the other night and said, without a doubt scientists consider warming to be happening and generally to be related to human activity especially given the quick change and magnitude of the changes we are seeing. I am sure Dr. Bataille would tell you the same thing. It is a scientific fact as best one can be determined with our amazing world we live on.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=181#more-181
In particular, the available scientific evidence indicates that it is likely that global warming will make - and possibly already is making - those hurricanes that form more destructive than they otherwise would have been.
But the deeper question, as we are of the earth, is what does your heart tell you? There is still a connection there if one is open to it. You ask Unc that and he will breakdown and tell you he cannot think with his heart... I imagine many are like that now - a fundamental disconnect between their mind, body and spirit because it hurts to realize what we are truly doing to our Mother - and to ourselves.
