04/06/2019
More Spring than ever before
Well…the drought is over in California. It flooded this winter in west Sonoma County. It was over the 1986 record of 47 feet. This rain is helping us get past the Tubbs fire of 2017.
05/27/19
It’s been a wet and rainy spring. I’m not complaining.
05/30/19
On my way out on CA Highway 1 going north, I didn’t notice the damage at first. Everything was just beautiful because it’d been some time since I last been up the north coast. But on the way home, I started to notice the burned trees. I kept saying, did they have a fire up here? The land is so damaged. Some trees look like skeletons. And there were so many downed trees. The earth is so beautiful that you can miss the scars sometimes. As I looked at the environment, I wondered if it was fire or acid rain or both or even a slow subduction (???!).
When I woke this morning, I looked to see if there had been a fire near Sea Ranch. And there had been a fire in 2017. I think that some of what I was looking at was actually acid rain as I suspected but remember fires are also a manifestation of climate change. Climate change is not going to go easy on us. Seeing the effects on Sea Ranch startled me into a new reality.
If you sow bad seeds, you get bad results. You can’t tear up and filthy up the environment and get back better than what you doled out. Monsanto in gives you Monsanto out. If you’re depending on our planet to sustain us all then please do better. Please.
If you don’t give a damn about our planet or humanity then why are you even here? The hard truth is that the homicidal person is a suicidal person. The homicide wants to die but keeps killing everyone around them. How do communities deal with people like this? How do we deal with ecocidal psychopaths and mass murdering war hawks?
There’s a saying that goes that you can judge a society by their prisons and mental institutions. We must identify these high functioning criminals and other antisocial fellow citizens. They behave in certain ways and manifest certain bad results. Screen people with test and look at the effects they have created in the world. There are humane ways of quarantining certain populations. The criminally minded or severely mentally ill should not be in control of governments or companies that can determine our future. Right now, our future has been compromised by ill thinkers, and bad faith movers and shakers. The earth may not survive this kind of abuse much longer. Ignore this warning at your peril.
Yesterday, I took this note down during my drive in the country. “Nature can show you just how big you can be.” On our way home, my partner and I started talking about driving and how it is a luxury. We spoke on how we’re going to get around in the near future, how we’re going to change and what technologies are appropriate to the environment. To paraphrase what John F. Kennedy said, It’s not what your environment can do for you but what you can do for your environment.
