With help from those wonderful folks at YouTube -- a movie (with historical relevance) "The True Price of Gas: A Judgement Killing Part One"
Photo essays of visibly distressed landscapes in the urban American West. Our health, and our landscape, is being destroyed by the toxic components of the air pollution we generate. These photo essays, centered mostly in Santa Barbara, CA, and Portland, OR, serve as stark reminders.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
The Forensic Value of the Keeling Curve as an American Carbon Dioxide Timeline
Take a close look at the timeline of the Keeling Curve.
With your eyes, follow the upward arc of the Keeling Curve as
carbon dioxide fills the atmosphere – and know that the arc also describes the
dominance of the American car, and fossil fuel burning, culture. Yes, an era of
coal fired climate controlled shopping mall junk food palaces, and cul de sac
housing tracts held together by smoggy asphalt umbilicals, and parking lots for
doctors, and priests, and father professors, and mother nurse exhaust pipes,
and smog deaths, and asthma attacks, and oil spills. And the nomadic migrations as
people leave one smoggy polluted city to go another less filthy town until
that new place is as bad, or worse, than the first vacated home. So much for the sanctity of the home.
These are all the rewards of a society gone mad with its own
toxicity. But as we know much of the world has taken on this same madness even as Earth’s
atmosphere fills up like the gas chamber it actually is.
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