Reply #48: We're not reinventing the world here; we're re-setting it aright . . . [View All]

We had electric cars ---
We had mass transportation ---
We need to finance it --- we've been starving it ---

Eventually, we may have a situation where workers won't be able to afford the gas to get to work --
Originally mass transit came about in NYC because workers were housed in cheaper areas away from
downtown NYC ---

Many places still have electric trolleys tho the oil/auto industry tried to pull them all!

We can have ELECTRIC CARS on our highways in 3-5 years . . .
we can raise up a corporation to do it -- and subsidize both ends of it... manufacture and purchase.

Cars can be CONVERTED . . .
This is all industry in the making --- industry which UNDOES harmful industry ---

Why are you not mentioning Electric Cars? --- Solar cell energy?

And what to make of this . . . ???

no combination of solar, wind and nuclear power, ethanol, biodiesel, tar sands and used French-fry oil will allow us to power Wal-Mart, Disney World and the interstate highway system -- or even a fraction of these things -- in the future. We have to make other arrangements.

And who in their right mind would want nuclear power???
Contrary to the Enron argument, YES . . . Wal-Mart and Disney World can be powered without having to have a GRID NETWORK for electricity.

In four months during the Enron "crisis" in California, 170,000 families were put on line with power from wind mills --- FOUR MONTHS.

We certainly do not have to drag energy over miles of long lines ---
every school, every business can have its own generators.

One of the first things to understand -- and everyone should -- is that scientists were talking about the need for cultural change more than 16 years ago in their "WARNING TO HUMANITy" . . .
the other is that change has been suppressed, alternative energy has been suppressed --- it is
there waiting to spring forth --- to increase its potential amazingly!

We don't have to drag food in from California --- we don't have to eat animals
Life isn't really about working with a pen and pencil while neglecting the reality of our own
lives, our own personal work ---
Airline travel is going to have to be curtailed because no airline/no passengers will be able to
afford the gas -- and we certainly can no longer afford the POLLUTION!

As we can see tonight, storms/tornadoes coming thru the mid-west have turned houses into tooth picks ---

We also have to understand that Patriarchy, Organized Patriarchal religons which underpin patriarchy --- and Capitalism -- are all going down --- they are SUICIDAL concepts of domination.
Of course, "Manifest Destiny" and "Man's Dominion Over Nature" --- exploitation of natural resources and animal life --- all coming to an end.

Only WE can change government and thereby our public education system which has been near destroyed and starved for funds --- health care based on prevention instead of cures -- etal ---

We have seriously attacked nature and the planet --- in effect, attacked ourselves because we are
part of nature. There is a question as to whether even our planet will survive our onslaught ...
more than likely we will not. HOWEVER, we must continue to try to save the planet.

More than a dozen years ago, the NY Times carried a story in the front section of the newspaper which stated that "the dams and reservoirs which the Army Corps of Engineers had built across the nation during the past 50-60 years were IMPACTING THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH."

After that -- and for many other reasons -- there were discussions about dismantling the dams ---
discussions which began to educate the public as to the problems the cause for nature.
Our planet has never really be secure on its axis ---

There's a lot to think about --- and if we are coming to an end, there is only one way to go ---
TRYING to save the planet!