word of wisdom
GET READY!!
earth day is coming up.
i think i want to throw a
" it's not easy being green" theme party.
What do you say. roomies? Communicate with me. everyone can wear reusable costumes, reduce the amount of waste by recycling our beer cans!! looks like i'm gonna be in cananda for SB.
we can
SWEEEEEEET
" we have responsibilities, such as providing a sustainable future
for ourselves and our children. This requires subtle
and forward-looking thinking. A society (no matter how
noble) that wastes, or over-consumes, its natural
resources is unsustainable. History is replete with
examples of this as discussed in Jared Diamond’s
wonderful new book “Collapse: How Societies Choose to
Fail or Succeed,” 2004 Viking Press. A reliance
on fossil fuels to run our economy is not a local issue,
it is a global issue. If you look at the Mt. Aloha
observatory data showing the increase in CO2 in the
earth’s atmosphere, and you have ever stood in a
greenhouse and felt the consequence of trapping the
sun’s energy in a confined space (this is not really
rocket science - and it is also not open to scientific
debate), then you have to reach the logical (not
ideological) conclusion that to have a sustainable
future, we must create a sustainable present. This
means looking at what we are doing now and asking how
can we do things better. And do it now, before the rest
of the North Pole melts. When you fully acknowledge the
factual basis for these concerns about the environment,
then it becomes crystal clear why stewardship of the
environment can not be the last thing considered in a
policy debate, but has to be close to the first.
I quote Sen. John McCain (R - Arizona), “It is not
un-American to speak up. You can still salute the flag
while asking your elected leaders to do better.” That
summarizes my intent in Tuesday’s lecture. Jim Porter
Institute of Ecology
earth day is coming up.
i think i want to throw a
" it's not easy being green" theme party.
What do you say. roomies? Communicate with me. everyone can wear reusable costumes, reduce the amount of waste by recycling our beer cans!! looks like i'm gonna be in cananda for SB.
we can
SWEEEEEEET
" we have responsibilities, such as providing a sustainable future
for ourselves and our children. This requires subtle
and forward-looking thinking. A society (no matter how
noble) that wastes, or over-consumes, its natural
resources is unsustainable. History is replete with
examples of this as discussed in Jared Diamond’s
wonderful new book “Collapse: How Societies Choose to
Fail or Succeed,” 2004 Viking Press. A reliance
on fossil fuels to run our economy is not a local issue,
it is a global issue. If you look at the Mt. Aloha
observatory data showing the increase in CO2 in the
earth’s atmosphere, and you have ever stood in a
greenhouse and felt the consequence of trapping the
sun’s energy in a confined space (this is not really
rocket science - and it is also not open to scientific
debate), then you have to reach the logical (not
ideological) conclusion that to have a sustainable
future, we must create a sustainable present. This
means looking at what we are doing now and asking how
can we do things better. And do it now, before the rest
of the North Pole melts. When you fully acknowledge the
factual basis for these concerns about the environment,
then it becomes crystal clear why stewardship of the
environment can not be the last thing considered in a
policy debate, but has to be close to the first.
I quote Sen. John McCain (R - Arizona), “It is not
un-American to speak up. You can still salute the flag
while asking your elected leaders to do better.” That
summarizes my intent in Tuesday’s lecture. Jim Porter
Institute of Ecology