07-05-2006, 10:28 AM
I am one of the "guilty as charged" who contributed references to Alaska. I did this only to counter the ideas that the oil there would make a big difference in light of the passing of the Peak Oil mark, which became part of the original thread. The reference to oil companies being more interested in the natural gas there rather than the oil, speaks to their attempts to conceal their real goals. The reference to the Valdez oil spill addresses the unaccountability of these large companies at being responsible for their errors, something that might be at issue when talking about the geothermal resource.
More on topic: we went to see "An Inconvenient Truth" at the Palace Theater yesterday. It's refreshing to see Al Gore speaking up about this subject, which seemed so painfully absent from his campaign speeches. More to the point, along with the movie were two locally produced shorts, one about "Ice" (crystal meth) and the other about recycling on the Big Island. The whole "recycle, reduce, reuse" concept is something that we needed to be living years ago. I recently returned to the Islands after living for a while in Palo Alto, CA. Palo Alto has a lot of knocks against it for being one of the wealthier cities in the Bay Area (we were in the lower strata), but they have one of the most comprehensive recycling programs around. It's incredible to realize how little you end up sending to a landfill when you fully participate in "recycle, reduce, reuse".
It may feel like too little, too late, in light of things like Peak Oil and Global Warming, but you have to do everything you can to change the direction we're going in.
Les C
More on topic: we went to see "An Inconvenient Truth" at the Palace Theater yesterday. It's refreshing to see Al Gore speaking up about this subject, which seemed so painfully absent from his campaign speeches. More to the point, along with the movie were two locally produced shorts, one about "Ice" (crystal meth) and the other about recycling on the Big Island. The whole "recycle, reduce, reuse" concept is something that we needed to be living years ago. I recently returned to the Islands after living for a while in Palo Alto, CA. Palo Alto has a lot of knocks against it for being one of the wealthier cities in the Bay Area (we were in the lower strata), but they have one of the most comprehensive recycling programs around. It's incredible to realize how little you end up sending to a landfill when you fully participate in "recycle, reduce, reuse".
It may feel like too little, too late, in light of things like Peak Oil and Global Warming, but you have to do everything you can to change the direction we're going in.
Les C