[Terrapreta] Global Warming Is Not Settled Science

[lou gold]

hey david,

i like your bottom line. just kids playing in the dirt. it inspires me.

lou

On Nov 10, 2007 9:07 PM, David Yarrow <dyarrow at nycap.rr.com> wrote:

>  the cynical side of me says:
> "goodbye.  please leave soon.  but also clean up your messes and leave a
> life for those of us humans who expect to live here a few more generations.
> and who knows, maybe in a few generations, your offspring will want to come
> home to earth.  it would be nice to leave a living, fully functional planet
> behind for such a future possibility."
>
> "or you could be like the borg....."
>
> however, having been through the doorway of death and back, i know it's
> much more simple.  before the creator will allow humans to wander the stars
> visiting other planets, we must pass a few tests, one of which is whether we
> are responsible, conscious and reasonable enough to take care of our current
> planet.  earth is an isolation chamber where humans are being cultured, and
> we will remain in this spacetime container until we demonstrate maturity and
> morality.  we don't get out of our 4D box until we prove we know how to
> behave.
>
> i believe the first rule of conduct to be nominated for membership in the
> galactic angelic federation is "peace."
>
> but, truthfully, seen from the next dimension, humans are not likely to
> roam the stars and contaminate the cosmos as physical beings embedded in
> protoplasmic cellular matrix.  to go on our own star trek, we must leave our
> physical bodies behind.  the human destiny is to transcend our physical
> embodient and retun to heaven as self-aware beaming beings of
> coherent light.-- something much more than a self-programming hologram.
>
> in the meantime, we are heavy, and stuck here and now under the law of
> gravity.
>
> in a state of emergency.
>
> figuring out how to make terra preta.
>
> David Yarrow
> "If yer not forest, yer against us."
> Turtle EyeLand Sanctuary
> 44 Gilligan Road, East Greenbush, NY 12061
> dyarrow at nycap.rr.com
> www.championtrees.org
> www.OnondagaLakePeaceFestival.org
> www.citizenre.com/dyarrow/
> www.farmandfood.org
> www.SeaAgri.com
>
> "Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times,
> if one only remembers to turn on the light."
> -Albus Dumbledore
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* lou gold <lou.gold at gmail.com>
> *To:* David Yarrow <dyarrow at nycap.rr.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, November 10, 2007 4:47 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Terrapreta] Global Warming Is Not Settled Science
>
> david -
>
> i have techno-freak friends who see the same trends leading not to
> "how much is enough" as much as to "how do we go beyond?" as
> in space exploration, etc.
>
> how would you respond to them?
>
> is it just about competing versions of
> "what kind of a world do i or we want"?
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 10, 2007 7:11 PM, David Yarrow < dyarrow at nycap.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > my mind follows a far different line of logic.
> >
> > increasingly, exponentially, for many centuries, industrial society
> > destroyed natural systems, converted "resources" into commodities, cash
> > and
> > trash, and blindly, thoughtlessly, recklessly, used the air and water as
> >
> > endless dumping grounds for man's wastes and chaos, and nature as an
> > endless
> > source of whatever we want.
> >
> > in the second half of the 20th century the consequences and chemicals of
> > man's disruptive and destructive activities and industries accumlated to
> >
> > dangerous levels and became evident, and so remedial and restrictive
> > actions
> > were made to eliminate the immediate smaller signs of short-term trouble
> > without addressing the system-wide impact of human activity.
> >
> > in the last quarter of the 20th century, science began to develop
> > rudimentary technologies, tools and methods to evaluate system-wide
> > disturbances of  the planetary biosphere, but early efforts
> > underestimated
> > the fragility and coherence of the biosphere.
> >
> > in the beginning of the 21st century, society had to undergo major
> > transformation and restructuring for its institutions to be guided by
> > science and reason rather than money and power -- and to adopt a
> > covenant
> > with nature to respect and care for all life as part of a seamless,
> > unitary,
> > coherent web.
> >
> > ultimately, this is not about a new technology.  we are confronting our
> > urgent need  for reason, compassion and morality.  in quantitative
> > measures,
> > the biting issue of our age is less "what kind of energy will we have"
> > than
> > "how much is enough?"
> >
> > David Yarrow
> > "If yer not forest, yer against us."
> > Turtle EyeLand Sanctuary
> > 44 Gilligan Road, East Greenbush, NY 12061
> > dyarrow at nycap.rr.com
> > www.championtrees.org
> > www.OnondagaLakePeaceFestival.org
> > www.citizenre.com/dyarrow/
> > www.farmandfood.org
> > www.SeaAgri.com
> >
> > "Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times,
> > if one only remembers to turn on the light."
> > -Albus Dumbledore
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kevin Chisholm" < kchisholm at ca.inter.net>
> > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 4:18 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Global Warming Is Not Settled Science
> > > I have not seen the logic or the evidence which connects Climate
> > Change
> > > with Man's activity. All I have seen is the faulty logic that goes
> > > something like this:
> > > 1: Man burns large quantities of fossil fuel which produces large
> > > quantities of CO2.
> > > 2: CO2 levels in the atmosphere are increasing, and CO2 is a GHG
> > > 3: Therefore, Man is causing Global Warming and if Man reduces his
> > > consumption of fossil fuel adequately, then Global Warming can be
> > brought
> > > under control.
> >
> >
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