Comments on: Earth Day….It is Dark Up There! http://blog.rogersradiointernet.com/richardzurawski/2008/04/21/earth-dayit-is-dark-up-there/ Just another Rogers Radio Blog weblog Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:41:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.3-2.2.1 By: Hawkeye Girl http://blog.rogersradiointernet.com/richardzurawski/2008/04/21/earth-dayit-is-dark-up-there/#comment-305 Hawkeye Girl Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:08:58 +0000 http://blog.rogersradiointernet.com/richardzurawski/2008/04/21/earth-dayit-is-dark-up-there/#comment-305 These "gestures" are kind of like training wheels on a bicycle: we're just wobbling along trying to get used to doing something new... while heading towards the Autobahn. Environmental change is well underway, yet we're still trying to wrap our heads around the idea of sorting our garbage. Today is Earth Day. I marked the occassion by selling trees.... and trying to get my colleagues to use ceramic mugs at their coffee break instead of disposable paper cups... Do you think tomorrow they'll use ceramic mugs or back to the throw-aways...? Maybe I'm just picking up on your cynicism, but I just get the feeling that by the time we get those training wheels off & figure out what we're supposed to be doing, it will be too late. These “gestures” are kind of like training wheels on a bicycle: we’re just wobbling along trying to get used to doing something new… while heading towards the Autobahn. Environmental change is well underway, yet we’re still trying to wrap our heads around the idea of sorting our garbage.

Today is Earth Day. I marked the occassion by selling trees…. and trying to get my colleagues to use ceramic mugs at their coffee break instead of disposable paper cups… Do you think tomorrow they’ll use ceramic mugs or back to the throw-aways…?

Maybe I’m just picking up on your cynicism, but I just get the feeling that by the time we get those training wheels off & figure out what we’re supposed to be doing, it will be too late.

]]> By: poetryman69 http://blog.rogersradiointernet.com/richardzurawski/2008/04/21/earth-dayit-is-dark-up-there/#comment-295 poetryman69 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:18:18 +0000 http://blog.rogersradiointernet.com/richardzurawski/2008/04/21/earth-dayit-is-dark-up-there/#comment-295 Want to protect the earth and save energy? Then stop all wars, conflicts and terrorism. How do you do that? Make the United States free of foreign oil. When the US is energy independent there will be no more oil wars and the terrorists will no longer be able or interested in reaching us. This will save lives AND energy. Let's study what Denmark, France, Brazil, and Australia have done on diversifying their energy supplies and do likewise. Let's drill wherever we have oil and put a new nuclear power plant in every state. Let's use all our coal and natural gas. We don't need foreign energy. And we will be safer, greener, and richer with out it. All of the earth’s natural resources will be eventually used by someone at some time. Would your rather these resources be recovered in an ecological friendly and sustainable way by the US or that some dictator who could not care less about the environment exploit the earth. All alternative sources of energy will take decades to bring online because their conversion efficiencies are not yet high enough. Eventually, the US will lead the world into a sustainable green economy, but energy independence comes first. It is the low hanging fruit and gives immediate benefits now. Want to protect the earth and save energy? Then stop all wars, conflicts and terrorism. How do you do that? Make the United States free of foreign oil. When the US is energy independent there will be no more oil wars and the terrorists will no longer be able or interested in reaching us. This will save lives AND energy. Let’s study what Denmark, France, Brazil, and Australia have done on diversifying their energy supplies and do likewise. Let’s drill wherever we have oil and put a new nuclear power plant in every state. Let’s use all our coal and natural gas. We don’t need foreign energy. And we will be safer, greener, and richer with out it. All of the earth’s natural resources will be eventually used by someone at some time. Would your rather these resources be recovered in an ecological friendly and sustainable way by the US or that some dictator who could not care less about the environment exploit the earth. All alternative sources of energy will take decades to bring online because their conversion efficiencies are not yet high enough. Eventually, the US will lead the world into a sustainable green economy, but energy independence comes first. It is the low hanging fruit and gives immediate benefits now.

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