(11 am. – promoted by ek hornbeck)
Hello I started an fun Tuesday Open Thread at firefly-dreaming a few weeks back and I thought you might like to see this one. Just a small way to honor the people who talked last night on the special edition of American Experience called “Earth Days.”
During the closing credits this song was playing;
And each speaker was shown first in their environment, then again in a box with a brief explanation of what they are doing today. Talk about “people powered politics.”
Below the fold are some pictures I took of my television last night. It was out of respect.
If you have not seen “Earth Days” you can view the entire two hours online. With another page open, this history of the environmental movement makes some great radio too. And don’t forget that “Food Inc” will be on PBS tomorrow night.
And we need another song to make it “Two for Tuesday,” don’t we?
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life last…There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature, the assurance that dawn comes after night and spring after winter.
—Rachel Carson
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When “Earth Days” gets to Rachel Carson and the spin the pesticide makers try to put on her findings, it sounds just like today.
There is another scene in”Earth Days” where Paul Ehrlich is a guest on Johnnie Carson and Carson sad something that blew me away. He said to Mr. Ehrlich “You’ve been on this show a half a dozen times.
Imagine the author of “The Population Bomb” being on Jay Leno six times today. There are many more examples that the United States had a brief period of sanity. A period ended by Ronald Reagan.
Ten as they showed Reagan’s last act against the Carter administration, the removal of the solar panels from the White House roof, one of the guest said “We’ve lost thirty years.”
My true nature is tree hugger up until climategate and the realization of the multi year and multi administration lead up to it. The de-industrialization of America via “free” trade agreements and treaties. China and India being named “carbon exempt” well before Big Al’s fully funded world tour. The wholesale export of industries that had to comply with growing enviornmental controls to countries in which the green toxic ooze could be dumped into the river and “employees” live in the company barracks. And for what so billionare globalist baffons can jet set from Copenhagen to Bonn to Cancun complete with their Praetorian stormtroopers to discuss how best to lower the modern lifestyle for their benefit. No, I’m so pissed as to contemplate burning plastic and pouring motor oil down the storm drain for Earth Day. Fury burns my soul in the parking lot of the yuppie Purelle dispenser bank because the sign says Parking for Hybrids only. They have been planning this since 1958 even before peak oil,peak resources and or peak dumbing down.
meadows is an old fave of mine……
he was one of the one who wrote the limits to growth and its model…..
he shaped my being in ways he will never know…..
thank you eddiec for showing light in your images……
something I notice is the age of all of these folks……..
all old timers like me………
wrinkles and kind caring eyes…….
we must take the hands of the next generation and help them stand up……
because if I tried to be young today I would never make it…..
none of us can do it alone……