R.C.Macaulay wrote:
Harry Veeder quotes.. Al Gore
The brunt of this climate crisis is going to be felt in the developing
world. All your work... will be undone if you don't focus on this," Bono
said.
"It is clear that those people who have least created this climate
crisis...
are the least equipped to deal with it."
Gore added: "I want to say to everyone who wants to solve the climate
crisis, they have to take Bono's agenda on extreme poverty, on fighting
disease and dealing with the HIV/AIDS crisis and make it an integral
part of
the world's effort to solve the climate crisis."
Howdy Harry,
At some point in time it becomes necessary to recognize some problems
have no solution tasks and simply turn your head in a stance of
inevitiability. Al Gore has profited by profiling global warming and
Bono the same with Africa but neither have a solution.
Of course Richard, some problems have no solution. That is not the
issue. It's the attempt to solve a problem that is important. Finding a
substitute for oil, for example, may not impact the climate much but it
will have many other benefits, which won't be achieved without the
encouragement of the climate change issue. Think beyond the local issue
and who is benefiting and ask if taking the advice of Al Gore might not
benefit us all in many other ways. Meanwhile, move to higher ground.
Africa is imploding in on itself, with any attempt to help being
frustrated. Climate changes occur but any attempt to modify climate is
futile. All the feeding of guilt will not solve insoluable problems.
Of course Africa is imploding. Helping Africa is not done because of
guilt but because unstable regions, if ignored, tend to spill out into
the reset of the world either as disease or terrorist. Africa was
destroyed by the Western nations in the past and even at the present
time harm is being done because powerful companies want the resources.
The biggest problem in the world is jealousy, vanity, lust and greed.
That is not the major problem because these have been part of the human
condition from day one. The problem is that these conditions now impact
a larger part of the society because of increased power in the hands of
government and corporations. In the past, leaders who had too much of
these characteristics would screw up a small part of the world. Now they
can screwup the whole world. But, we just keep on electing them. As a
result, we get what we deserve.
Add drugs to this equation and witness a decay in civilized society.
An attorney friend remarked tha he no longer knew what justice is as a
result of his work in the court system.
Drugs are not the problem. The problem is the approach used to deal with
drug uce. Some countries take a better approach than others, with the US
being one of the worst. In this country, any rational approach based on
an understanding of human nature and history is labeled as liberal. As a
result, the brute force method of people who only respect and enjoy the
use of power are in charge. We see this battle between the liberal and
conservative approach being carried out on many issues, with the
conservatives winning. As a result, society just keeps getting worse.
The response to this deterioration is to apply more force and power.
Make people behave rather than give them the freedom and reason to
behave. If you want to find the reason for the decay, you might consider
this one.
I explained the definition of the word "justice" as " love of order,
that which preserves it, we call justice."
Neither Al Gore or any of the politicians in or from Washington hold
legitimate credentials to speak to the American people on issues they
help create.
Not because their political position in failing us.. but.. by their lack
of moral leadership. What did they and the politicials of either party
expect in their constant degradation of congress and the constitution
they were sworn to defend and protect.
Unfortunately, the term "moral leadership" describes one of the reason
things are going down hill. Too often, the criteria is based on some
religious idea that has no relationship to the present reality or to the
need of the general population. Meanwhile the basic beliefs behind the
religious philosophy are ignored in an attempt to force compliance with
a few emotional issues. Of course a society goes down hill when the
moral leaders speak with such hypocrisy.
Ed
Richard
