24 January News and Notes
Jan and Becca explained the state of the planet.
Announcements: The Three Cranes are inviting us to celebrate on January 31, 2010 at Feast of Imbolc. See www.threecranes.org for details.
The joint Jan and Shawn birthday party/pot luck was very successful. Betty has volunteered to provide reminder call service to anyone who wants to attend the monthly pot-lucks but cannot be lucky enough to remember it when the right week rolls around on the calendar. Contact Betty for the reminder service (if you can remember to do that).
After the pot luck Sue and Jim took some food over to Connie and Gordon. They report that Connie is looking very good although she tires very quickly.
Jan presented some of the latest information on how planet A was doing. When we make planet A unlivable, we shall all embark for planet B… when we discover planet B… and a way to get to planet B. Meanwhile, the rate of tuberculosis seems to be a measure of how bad the air pollution is in a region. When the
Becca presented some of the news from Copenhagen. The big story was that the Northern most nations and the island nations are the vulnerable ones who have to suffer the most from the climate chaos. The industrialized nations can continue to enjoy the benefits of dumping pollution into the sky and force those nations to pay the price. It’s like being able to dump your garbage over the fence into your neighbor’s yard when they aren’t allowed to stop you from doing it… and they have no ability to clean it up or move it. They simply have to live with the consequences of all your cat litter and rotten vegetables being thrown into their back yard.
Becca played a video called Tick Tick Tick… or tck tck tck. It seems that the young have a better understanding that eventually all that garbage is going to be a problem for them, even while their elders are laughing at the poor people who have to suffer from their profligate pollution habits. If anyone knows where to link to that video, contact me at rpittaway@yahoo.com and I will post it here.