Star Spangled Morning
By the dawn's dirty light
(especially in the radiation wavelength spectrum of 5-7 microns)
What so proudly we moved forward
At the twighlight's last gleaming....
I love this headline from this morning, as it so accurately captures the way we Amercians are viewed around the world:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Energy-guzzling Americans on the lookout for a painless path to conservation can celebrate this weekend when they will cut greenhouse gas emissions by simply pushing forward the hands on their clocks.
These are the solutions our government is creating? Ok, so maybe it will help. But is this the same government whose leader never misses an opportunity to snub world efforts at addressing the problem of emissions? The same leader who passed legislation crafted by utility lobbyists, and euphemistically called the "Clear Skies Act" (ref. "Turd Blossom")? The same leader who is in denial that greenhouse gas emissions are all the problem they're cracked up to be? That very same leader who said, just five years ago, that consumption was every American's right, and that conservation was not the American way?
I seriously don't know why the rest of the world dislikes us so.
1 comments:
Thanks for the reminder on the clocks - I would have missed breakfast at the diner.
Here's a little something I found in the letters section of the Portland Herald:
President Bush appoints as guardians of our flocks the slyest of foxes. As head of the U.S. Forest Service, he appointed a timber-industry lobbyist, Mark Rey, probably the most rapacious in history.
In charge of public lands, he put a mining-industry lobbyist, Steven Griles, who believes that public lands are unconstitutional.
In charge of the air division of the EPA, he put Jeffrey Holmstead, a utility lobbyist who has represented nothing but the worst air polluters in America.
As head of Superfund, he put a woman whose last job was teaching corporate polluters how to evade Superfund.
The second-in-command of EPA is a Monsanto lobbyist.
And we all get to sit by and watch it happen, year after year.
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