I bought a copy of National Geographic because it contained an article on The World's Largest Trees but the cover indicated there was an article about fracking, a hot button topic around Colorado.
I was reading in bed about methane gas and fracking, which wasn't a good choice for helping me to fall asleep. No one will argue that it's depressing to read about all the crap we're doing to screw up the planet and, therefore, people's lives. We're a long way from integrating the world so that we can all work together for the common good. I'm wondering if we'll figure it all out in time, but some people are trying to work toward a positive outcome as if we will. There's a reason Sci Fi and dystopian writing is popular. Just like every good lie has enough truth in it to make it credible, every disaster movie or book has enough reality in it to be plausible, or almost plausible.
After reading the methane gas article, I felt discouraged about the state of things even though I thought the photos of the methane bubbles trapped in ice looked beautiful. My thought process led me to thinking about people who live and breathe mankind's problems. Do-gooders who are usually self-righteous and sanctimonious people who love the sound of their own voices. (Do I sound biased? Even worse, do I sound self-righteous and sanctimonious? ....Moving on.....) Why don't we listen to them? Because no one likes to talked down to and that's always how it sounds to me.
My advice to the sincere people, who are passionate about improving life on earth, is to approach people in a more positive manner. Don't try to scare the hell out of us because we'll just pull our heads inside of our shells. Sometimes just trying to pay the bills and take care of the family is challenge enough. Worrying about starvation, nuclear bombs, disappearing aquifers, air pollution, and methane gas can't be everyday topics for most of us or we'd go mad.
Which is what may have happened to some folks in Boulder at the last Boulder County commission meeting. Representatives from Encana Oil & Gas were there to discuss fracking. The anti-fracking crowd intimidated the Encana people from the time they entered the building and heckled Wendy Wiedenbeck when it was her turn to speak. (for her six minutes) They were screamed at, videotaped and called terrible names. Their car was blocked by an SUV when they tried to leave, then the car was pounded on. Police had to be brought in for their protection. I'm embarrassed that the "activists" in Boulder stooped to this barbaric behavior. They have hurt their cause. Who is going to want to enter into a conversation about fracking if they're going to be abused and have their physical well being put at risk? No one. And no one, not even in Boulder, has the right to behave like a thug.
I was reading in bed about methane gas and fracking, which wasn't a good choice for helping me to fall asleep. No one will argue that it's depressing to read about all the crap we're doing to screw up the planet and, therefore, people's lives. We're a long way from integrating the world so that we can all work together for the common good. I'm wondering if we'll figure it all out in time, but some people are trying to work toward a positive outcome as if we will. There's a reason Sci Fi and dystopian writing is popular. Just like every good lie has enough truth in it to make it credible, every disaster movie or book has enough reality in it to be plausible, or almost plausible.
After reading the methane gas article, I felt discouraged about the state of things even though I thought the photos of the methane bubbles trapped in ice looked beautiful. My thought process led me to thinking about people who live and breathe mankind's problems. Do-gooders who are usually self-righteous and sanctimonious people who love the sound of their own voices. (Do I sound biased? Even worse, do I sound self-righteous and sanctimonious? ....Moving on.....) Why don't we listen to them? Because no one likes to talked down to and that's always how it sounds to me.
My advice to the sincere people, who are passionate about improving life on earth, is to approach people in a more positive manner. Don't try to scare the hell out of us because we'll just pull our heads inside of our shells. Sometimes just trying to pay the bills and take care of the family is challenge enough. Worrying about starvation, nuclear bombs, disappearing aquifers, air pollution, and methane gas can't be everyday topics for most of us or we'd go mad.
Which is what may have happened to some folks in Boulder at the last Boulder County commission meeting. Representatives from Encana Oil & Gas were there to discuss fracking. The anti-fracking crowd intimidated the Encana people from the time they entered the building and heckled Wendy Wiedenbeck when it was her turn to speak. (for her six minutes) They were screamed at, videotaped and called terrible names. Their car was blocked by an SUV when they tried to leave, then the car was pounded on. Police had to be brought in for their protection. I'm embarrassed that the "activists" in Boulder stooped to this barbaric behavior. They have hurt their cause. Who is going to want to enter into a conversation about fracking if they're going to be abused and have their physical well being put at risk? No one. And no one, not even in Boulder, has the right to behave like a thug.
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