tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post609578763401661216..comments2023-12-23T05:14:34.273-05:00Comments on Wit's End: Hope Springs InfernalGail Zawackihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-87069299630695902852013-08-29T18:07:26.566-04:002013-08-29T18:07:26.566-04:00Gail,
I am not sure what is the best way in conta...Gail,<br /><br />I am not sure what is the best way in contacting you so I will comment on your blog. I am an admin from the Doomstead Diner website and am currently running a podcast series trying to raise awareness to various issues concerning our environment. I would like to invite you as guest to a future podcast but would first like to contact you via email so we can talk about the details a little more. Just to give you an idea though our previous guests in our podcast series include people like Guy McPherson, Nicole Foss, Gail Tverberg and George Mobus.<br /><br />My email is: monsta666@hotmail.com so drop me a line if you are interested or alternatively you can offer me a way of contacting you perhaps through google hangouts. Speaking of google hangouts people of the Diner will host a meeting on Sunday 8th September to talk about the Monstanto and other environmental issues. Your knowledge of the environment and its destruction would fit well there so you are welcome in joining us. monstahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14455539416895222751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-22560305727352299692013-08-29T14:28:48.257-04:002013-08-29T14:28:48.257-04:00Thanks Michelle. Your thoughts reflect a warm hear...Thanks Michelle. Your thoughts reflect a warm heart.<br />And yes, human mothers do endanger their children when they put them in the harms way of poison engine exhaust. They should be ashamed.<br />Keep your spirits up as I work to keep mine up.<br />DavidWind Spirit Keeperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08593821563591272476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-82582746278047053522013-08-29T14:22:50.590-04:002013-08-29T14:22:50.590-04:00You're twisted.You're twisted.Wind Spirit Keeperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08593821563591272476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-16336950734307303822013-08-27T05:00:36.174-04:002013-08-27T05:00:36.174-04:00Very funny picsVery funny picsLandscaping services Illinoishttp://www.instantshadeinc.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-4531902627443935192013-08-25T13:18:28.579-04:002013-08-25T13:18:28.579-04:00Gail,
Since humans cannot see particles smaller th...Gail,<br />Since humans cannot see particles smaller than 15 microns, these smaller particles are often ignored, while in fact life is very dependable of them. Your story brought me back to the time that I worked in the Flood Control Department of New York State and we had a flood control dam to prevent flooding of Rochester. The gates of this dam would only be closed during expected flood condition and the valley behind it would temporally flood. Prior to construction here was some objection, but the Corps of Engineers and the State convinced the public that trees would survive such flooding. When we performed flood damage, after Hurricane Agnes, when the gates of tis dam were opened again and the water released, everything below the waterline during the storm, was dead and clearly the vegetation did not survive this flooding. The reason was not the water, but the silt that clogged of the pores. <br />When we look at vegetation we do not think about the fact that they also exchange gasses, carbon dioxide for cell synthesis and oxygen as the result of photosynthesis, splitting water in hydrogen and oxygen, the latter released. Personally I would not be surprised if the increased presence of smaller particles in the air, due to more severe weather or possible other reasons (like exhaust gasses), does play a role in what is happening to trees. Air pollution due to small particles is getting some attention, but mostly only causing public health problems.<br />It would not be the first time science dealing with our environment is ignoring these smaller particles. As a water and wastewater engineer, I think we still live in a pre-electron microscope period, where we only can see half a micron particle through an optical microscope, so we call anything smaller to be on a molecular scale. Our present testing to implement regulations proves this fact. One criteria of secondary treatment of sewage is measured as TSS (Total Suspended Solids) and should be less than 30 mg/l, according to discharge permits. However, when one looks at how the test is performed, a sample is first filtered through a 0.8 micron filter; hence anything smaller is not measured. This does not make any sense is we are dealing with natural recycling processes and, like any kid will tell you after playing with Lego blocks, that you first have to break down the original structure in order to build a new structure. This in nature means that to build new organic matter, the old organic matter first has to be broken down into molecules, before new organic matter can be built. Here we talk about particles much, much smaller than .5 microns. It really is time to go back to the basics in order to understand what is happening around us, but basics and common sense seem to have lost their essence in our present highly specialized society.<br />Peter Maierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09815315204703264807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-16997320683460603232013-08-25T12:03:30.946-04:002013-08-25T12:03:30.946-04:00Every day is a chapter in a nightmare that will ne...Every day is a chapter in a nightmare that will never end (even in death). I do not need to make money because I have a small pension and still work a little as a translator. So, I just observe, and wait, and wait, and wait in the comfort of my life powered by electricity. I am in constant pain. I am pain. There is nothing I can do but kill my projects and dreams as they come... and go. It is completely useless to tell me to take advantage of my remaining days. That is what got us in the nightmare in the first place «take advantage». And here in the city, there is not much to enjoy anymore: dying trees, foul air (unbreathable really, and all those mothers carrying their babies in strollers exactly at the height of the exhausts of cars...), always dirty sky and stupid, oh so stupid, troves of human beings hooked to their iphones, burning coal (http://www.tech-pundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Cloud_Begins_With_Coal.pdf?c761ac)<br />What's a girl to do?michele/montrealnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-9392598894162941652013-08-25T00:42:53.130-04:002013-08-25T00:42:53.130-04:00great post. The poem is very end-time. Nice
Tr...great post. The poem is very end-time. Nice<br /><br />Trees in Seattle are drought shocked. Three days of rain for all summer so far. rpaulihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00016149709193595632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-40162050515760750582013-08-24T21:26:55.547-04:002013-08-24T21:26:55.547-04:00I can't wait to read your post about your trip...I can't wait to read your post about your trip and the movie! congrats again; well- deserved!Mossyhttp://www.gwenet.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-29837188246341907122013-08-24T18:32:35.120-04:002013-08-24T18:32:35.120-04:00It gets worse by the day now, Gail. Dried, curled...It gets worse by the day now, Gail. Dried, curled, browned and crinkly leaves drop beside the still green ones attached to sprigs on the grass. I thought it might be October, but no, this happened all summer long - since late May! Though there's still a lot of leaves on them, all the trees look "thin" - not as full as years past. It's breaking my heart daily. There's no getting used to it. One of these springs Rachel Carson may be proved right. <br /><br />thanks for the wonderfully written article and interesting links - i'm glad you're still posting.<br /><br />TomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com