tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post2349610866446804611..comments2023-12-23T05:14:34.273-05:00Comments on Wit's End: Zawacki is a Verb that Means "I Told You So"Gail Zawackihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-72335886895500235662010-10-04T11:20:27.461-04:002010-10-04T11:20:27.461-04:00A chain email.A chain email.Highschoolernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-59670058538753696942010-10-04T10:40:29.712-04:002010-10-04T10:40:29.712-04:00Well Highschooler, I think it's pretty importa...Well Highschooler, I think it's pretty important. I've written to Dr. Muir but haven't heard back, which may be because she is on sabbatical.<br /><br />Sadly, I don't know what else to do other than what I've been doing - writing and calling scientists, politicians, and media types to get this issue the attention it should have.<br /><br />I plan to send this particular information to the folks at Real Climate, and try to get through to Lisa Jackson, head of the EPA. I also am having a few hundred handouts printed to bring to Washington on 10/10 - maybe with my zombie costume people will take note! I'm also planning to do more letters to the editor - I think the damage is getting obvious enough that people will take notice.<br /><br />Another plan is to contact organic farming organizations. Organic farmers may be a vocal advocate once they understand that they are financially disadvantaged compared to industrial farmers by this, because they can't offset the ozone by using chemicals for pesticides and fertilization.<br /><br />If you've got any more ideas please don't hesitate to let me know! (I've also considered hanging signs on trees or spray painting them with "Help me I'm dying" or chaining myself to a tree in a prominent place...it may come to that soon!)Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-34412676091425383712010-10-04T09:41:44.735-04:002010-10-04T09:41:44.735-04:00So is this like a major breakthrough? Like a reall...So is this like a major breakthrough? Like a really big deal? Im confused but is the start of this actually getting the attention it needs? What do we do next?Highschoolernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-30588498873559878092010-10-04T07:48:34.081-04:002010-10-04T07:48:34.081-04:00Thanks, Rita! - yes, it's the resolution to th...Thanks, Rita! - yes, it's the resolution to the Fermi paradox: where is everybody?<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox<br /><br />"It is the nature of intelligent life to destroy itself<br />See also: Doomsday argument<br />This is the argument that technological civilizations may usually or invariably destroy themselves before or shortly after developing radio or space flight technology. Possible means of annihilation include nuclear war, biological warfare or accidental contamination, nanotechnological catastrophe, ill-advised physics experiments,[Note 4] a badly programmed super-intelligence, or a Malthusian catastrophe after the deterioration of a planet's ecosphere. This general theme is explored both in fiction and in mainstream scientific theorizing.[40] Indeed, there are probabilistic arguments which suggest that human extinction may occur sooner rather than later. In 1966 Sagan and Shklovskii suggested that technological civilizations will either tend to destroy themselves within a century of developing interstellar communicative capability or master their self-destructive tendencies and survive for billion-year timescales.[41] Self-annihilation may also be viewed in terms of thermodynamics: insofar as life is an ordered system that can sustain itself against the tendency to disorder, the "external transmission" or interstellar communicative phase may be the point at which the system becomes unstable and self-destructs.[42]"Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-69270406418980103072010-10-03T23:41:47.793-04:002010-10-03T23:41:47.793-04:00Gail - this is an excellent post. Thank you. And c...Gail - this is an excellent post. Thank you. And congratulations to the lovely daughter and her magnificent stallion. I am thinking about making up business cards for your web site, so I can hand them out. I keep having conversations with perplexed plant lovers trying to figure out what the heck is going on. It is more than a little scary. BTW, I hated "No Pressure" but will never forget it, kind of like "Guernica." It is going to be quite an exciting decade coming up.<br /><br />I predicted a lot of this in the 60s and 70s, so am not surprised. The trouble is, it took so long that people got tired of "preparing" and many of them jumped on the yuppie bandwagon in the 80s. What I never imagined is the dying of the trees, and plants and crops. maybe the oil crash will happen soon and that will save us. It could save a few of us. It is population that will crash. It makes you wonder if any other planets in our solar system once had Earth-like atmospheres and self-destructed. Our glorious inventions destroy us by destroying our atmosphere.<br />RitaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com