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Earth is
defined herein as:realm or abode of
mortal existence
mothership of the species
homo sapiens
solid matter of the planet we inhabit in distinction from
air or water
The softer
inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the
planet, in distinction from the firm
rock; soil of all kinds, including gravel, clay, loam, and the like; sometimes,
soil favorable to the growth of
plants; the visible surface of the globe; the ground; as, loose earth; rich
earth.
The third planet from the sun, having a sidereal period of
revolution about the sun of 365.26 days at a mean distance of approximately 149
million kilometers (92.96 million miles), an axial rotation period of 23 hours
56.07 minutes, an diameter of 12,756 kilometers (7,923 miles) at the equator.
Earth spins around the center of the Milky Way
at ~ 220 kilometers per second, or 490,000 miles per hour.
I close my
eyes,
only for a moment,
and the moment's gone
All my dreams,
pass before my
eyes,
a
curiosity
Dust in the
wind,
all they are is dust in the wind.
Same old song,
just a drop of water in an endless
sea
All we
do,
crumbles to
the ground,
though we refuse to
see
Dust in the wind,
all we are is
dust in the wind
Don't hang on,
nothing lasts forever but the
earth and
sky
It slips away,
and
all your money won't another minute
buy.
Dust in the wind,
all we are is dust in the
wind
Dust in the wind,
everything is dust in the
wind.
Kansas
"May the inhabitants of earth find heartfelt
consensus.
Unite their imaginings with
dwellers in
heaven!
All separation
and dualism will
vanish
For there is
only unity in real
existence!" - Rumi
"Upon what does the Earth stand?
Upon the
pillars.
(The sages say it stands upon twelve pillars.)
The pillars
stand upon the waters;
the waters upon the mountains;
the
mountains upon the wind;
the wind upon the storm;
the storm is
suspended upon the strength of the Holy One,
blessed be He, as it is
written."
- Babylonian
Talmud, Tract Hagiga, Chapter II
translated by Michael Levi
Rodkinson
"It is horrifying that we have to fight
our
own government to save the
environment."
Ansel Adams
The first scientific study of
ecology was done by the Greek scholar Theophrastus in 325 BC.
Theophrastus wrote about the relationship between organisms and between
organisms and their environment.
"All organisms and microsystems depend
on the health of the ecosystem in which they live, and each
ecosystem depends on other, distant
ecosystems.
Higher life forms depend on microbes to maintain a life
supporting atmosphere.
While life on
earth can sustain the loss of some
species, each species depends on the
whole.
None can exist
in isolation on a bare and lifeless
planet." - Charles Eisenstein
"I am born into an
environment
I know not whence I came
nor whither I go
nor
who I am.
Erwin Schrödinger
"If the social learning system comes to lack sufficient individual
learning or cognitively costly adaptive biases, behavior ceases tracking
environmental variation.
Then, when the environment does change,
fitness declines and the population may collapse or even be extirpated." - Hal
Whitehead
Science reveals the truth of an ever
changing Earth.
Real scientists are moral
individuals who seek truth.
Corruption of
the process of seeking the truth
undermines not just democracy but
civilization.
"It's easier to kill a number than an
individual,
whether we're talking about so many tons of fish,
so many
board feet of timber,
or so many
boxcars of
untermenschen."
Derrick Jensen
John Graham's
cost-benefit
analysis in conjunction with Milton Friedman's
Chicago School of
Economics ideology is fatally flawed as both neglect to take into account
general effects produced.
1989 John Graham, a
Wise Use
sycophant, founds the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis.
The
pseudoscience of
cost-benefit analysis claims to be able to
compare the monetary cost of the implementation of new laws.
In John
Graham cost-benefit analysis if a
fish has no commercial value and 10 million fish die because of
toxic pollution the
economic cost is
zero.
In this mindset useless eaters are
better off
dead.
Toward that goal premature death is on the rise from slow
acting posions - transfat,
high fructose corn syrup,
diacetyl, fluoride, methyl
tert-butyl ether,
bisphenol A,
phthalates, pyrethroids,
polybrominated diphenyl
ethers, lead,
polytetrafluoroethylene,
trichloroethylene,
polychlorinated biphenyls,
asbestos,
perchlorate,
mercury,
glyphosate and
organophosphates.
Diacetyl – Popcorn Lung Class Action Lawsuit
E-Cigarettes Contain Chemical Tied to 'Popcorn
Lung'
"Cost-benefit analysis' is a cheap deception of the
general public.
This approach represents a
serious erosion in science.
You
create credentials and appear scientifically sensible, while all the time you
are just fronting for a political agenda." -
Michael Oppenheimer
"Economists
view the environment as invisible because their cost-benefit analysis is fatally flawed.
A full cost
accounting of industrial practices reveals how much the natural services of ecosystems threatened
or destroyed by development and
industrial pollution
are actually worth in addition to the real value of natural resources
consumed and wasted, especially irreplaceable ones.
Environmentalists despise the
church of neo-liberal
economics and the priests of predatory
corporatism, who are spending our principal and
deferring environmental debt like there's no tomorrow."- Andrew
Christie
John Graham, appointed by George Bush to head the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs in 2001, central role was undermining
environmental protection through 'research' papers based on cost-benefit
analysis.
John Graham blocked every rule change that protects the
environment including two dozen proposed by the EPA including
reduced arsenic levels in drinking water,
reduced pollution from coal
burning plants and regulation of
fecal waste from industrial
factory farms.
The Trump administration has done even more by
eliminating all environmental regulation.
June 8, 1783
Skaptar Jokull Volcano in Iceland explodes sending huge clouds of ash high into
the sky.
Summer never came
to the Arctic that year.
All along the Bering Sea coast and Norton
Sound area the Eskimos starved to death.
The volcanic cloud from the
Icelandic volcano drifted across the Pacific Ocean reaching Japan where 1783
became known as the year summer never came.
Sulfurous gases combined with water vapor high in
the atmosphere to produce a cloud of tiny sulfuric acid crystals which
reflected a considerable amount of solar
radiation back out into space.
This lowered the temperature of the
earth by about 1° Celsius, and these effects were felt for about two years.
April 5, 1815 Mount Tambora Sumbawa,
Indonesia erupts with such violence
explosions could be heard for 1,000 miles.
Ash fell two feet deep
over 850 miles away.
Darkness cloaked a 300 mile area around the
volcano for three days.
Mount Tambora lost 4,100 feet in height and
threw out an estimated 36.4 cubic miles of debris.
Volcanic debris was
hurled into the atmosphere where it circled the earth, darkened the sky and
eventually helped to make 1816 known as the year without a
summer.
In the northeastern part of the US and the Ohio Valley frost,
ice and snow were common in June; heavy frosts throughout July and even ice
storms; frost and ice were common in August.
Snow fell in Springfield,
Massachusetts on September 11, and colder weather settled in again during the
final days of September with ice up to one-fourth inch thick. October, although
fairly normal, had its share of frost and ice.
Coseguina Volcano in
Nicaragua erupted in January of 1835.
The volcano's erupted
continuously for seven hours creating total darkness within a radius of 50
miles of the volcano.
This eruption of Coseguina was blamed for the
cool summer of 1836.
That summer was nearly as cold as the summer of
1816 in western Pennsylvania
and northeastern Ohio.
There were frosts in every month of the year,
and the only true summer weather was limited to the first 14 days of September.
During the period 1817-1890, 1836 had the coldest summer of record.
August 26, 1883 Krakatau(Krakatoa) erupts
creating a gigantic cloud of ash that shot upward to a height of 17 miles and
spread out like a huge oak
tree.
On August 27 the darkness from Krakatau (Krakatoa) eruption
extended 100 miles out from the volcano with the ash cloud from Krakatau
(Krakatoa) rising an estimated 50,000 feet above the Earth's surface.
Then came a second eruption estimated to be equal to 200 megatons of
TNT - about 13,000 times the yield of
the Little Boy bomb (13 to 16 KT)
that devastated Hiroshima, Japan, and four times the yield of the
Tsar Bomba (50 MT), the largest
nuclear weapon ever built.
The 1883 eruption ejected approximately 21
cubic kilometres (5.0 cu mi) of rock, ash, and pumice, and generated the
loudest sound historically reported: the cataclysmic explosion was distinctly
heard as far away as Perth in Australia approximately 1,930
miles (3,110 km), and the island of Rodrigues near Mauritius approximately
3,000 miles (5,000 km) distant.
The sound waves from the explosion
circled the Earth seven times.
During
the winter of 1883-1884, snow in
Scotland, Holland, Germany and different parts of the US was found to contain
tiny particles of volcanic dust.
The dust particles from
Krakatau(Krakatoa) could be seen on a clear day ringing the sun.
The
mean global temperature in 1884 was lowered 0.27C.
In the dust of the
Tibetan Plateau, with much thinking and careful calculation, the detonation of
thermonuclear warheads could blast fine particulate into the upper atmosphere
working in much the same way as Krakatoa.
The Tibetan Plateau is a
significant dust source area of great importance. Synoptic dynamics and remote
sensing tracing of a dust storm on 3 to 5 March, 2003 in Lhasa on South Tibet
demonstrate that the Tibetan Plateau possesses all factors and conditions of
generating dust storms.
Accompanied with this dust storm is a strong
ascending stream on the Plateau which has raised various sizes of dust
particles into different levels.
The lifted coarse particles were
largely fallen down and accumulated as loess on the eastern Tibetan Plateau,
and the fine particles were translated by the westerly jet and subsided in the
northern Pacific Ocean.
The spatial-temporal distribution of dust
storms between years 1961 and 2000 on the Plateau shows that
dust storms mainly occur in winter and
early spring with high
frequency, and the path of
dust storm moves gradually from south to north, which is closely coupled
with the northward moving of the westerly jet from winter to spring over the
Tibetan Plateau.
The Tibetan Plateau is one of the key dust source
areas for long-distance transport because its high occurring frequency and
elevation cause fine particles easily to be lifted into the zone of the
westerly jet.
Defenders of Property RightsDefenders of
Property Rights were Robert Bork; Larry Craig, US Senator from Idaho; Orrin
Hatch, US Senator from Utah; Ed Meese, Attorney General under Reagan, 1985-88;
Richard Pombo, Congressman, California 11th; Lamar Smith, Congressman, Texas
21st
Citizens for Sensible Control of Acid Rain
(CSCAR) operated between 1983 and 1991 to oppose tightening the Clean Air Act.
In a 1986 letter sent to more than 600,000 constituents, CSCAR claimed that the
acid rain bill would cost
some $110 billion to industry and utilities and increase the electricity rate
by 30%. Citizens for Sensible Control of Acid Rain was funded by the
coal and electric industry. Specific companies included: American Cyanamid Co.,
Consolidation Coal Co., Indianapolis Power and Light Co., Jersey Central Power
and Light Co., Metropolitan Edison Co., Ohio Edison Co., Pennsylvania Electric
Co., Peabody Holding Co., Southern Co., Services Union Electric Co.
The Advancement of Sound Science
CoalitionThe Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC) is a
now defunct industry funded PR front group run by the APCO Worldwide public
relations firm which worked to hang the label of "junk science" on
environmentalists. forged in 1993, TASSC began as a front for Philip Morris
which was attempting to discredit ETS (Environmental Tobacco Smoke) research as
a long-term cause of increased
cancer and heart problem
rates in the community - especially among office workers and children living
with smoking parents. TASSC advanced industry-friendly positions on a wide
range of topics, including global
warming, smoking, phthalates, and
pesticides. |
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