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Comments on: Floods and Fires https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/07/08/floods-and-fires/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Sun, 09 Jul 2006 11:25:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/07/08/floods-and-fires/comment-page-1/#comment-16662 Sun, 09 Jul 2006 11:25:46 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/07/08/floods-and-fires/#comment-16662 Spending time and money looking for more oil is not going to help us in any way. Conservation and shifting to alternatives deal with both global warming and energy independence.

We don’t have enough time if we do nothing.

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/07/08/floods-and-fires/comment-page-1/#comment-16653 Sun, 09 Jul 2006 03:20:36 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/07/08/floods-and-fires/#comment-16653 Scary stuff. We’ve had enough rain here lately that it hasn’t been a local problem, but as summer wears on, I expect the inevitable no-burn orders in rural Texas. (It’s always illegal within Houston city limits.) This will be the first year that I don’t have to worry about my neighbors at Livingston sometimes ignoring the orders and risking my former property, except that I don’t want them to burn their own property, either.

A friend of Stella’s recently said she wondered whether Gore was right about our having sufficient time to save ourselves from ultimate destruction incident to global warming, even if we find the political will to do something about it. It’s unpleasant to think about, and Americans lately have gotten good at not thinking about unpleasant things. Maybe Gore is saying what he does in hopes that people will be motivated to give it their best shot, rather than simply giving up. I don’t know; I just don’t know.

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