fear?

[Adam Blatner]

Well Adam, no drastic steps have to be taken for you maybe. But what about the rest of the world? Have you read "any" reports of late about the state of the environment?  Is that "drastic" to you?  Do you feel "drastic steps" are needed, or shall we let it all slide away?   Is your status as a white, MD, American in any way related to your sense of the issues at hand, related in particular to the (assumed) non-drastic steps we can take our leisure?   I would be the 140 species per day going extinct would possibly consider this drastic, if they had a voice, or if we could hear them.  Or how about the sliding ice caps in the arctic Adam?  Is that okay?  Well, it might impact the poor black and brown people living in coastal communities, but well, is that drastic? 
       I agree:  it is fear based, fanatic, denial, distraction that I am suggesting we face - not suggesting anything other than we honestly face the urgency. Oh, probably Al Gore is wrong, probably the 2089 scientists calling this an emergency are wrong, perhaps our food shelves will for awhile stay full as long as we can secure the oil we need to keep this insanity going.  But it's not an emergency, it sounds, to you, given the fact that as you once told me, you may be long gone before the next generation must deal with this.  What does that imply?   -- Ed

      Ab: Okay, what specifically do you suggest that we do? 

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