Religious Intolerance

» redback - said Hanrahan

If we all bought local produce...imported none...even those out-of-season Californian navel oranges OR we came up with an internationally integrated way to simplify worldwide distribution of food...avoid duplication of air transport etc, we could avoid many tonnes of greenhouse gases. But that may require for example, the USA easing up on its biased "Free" Trade Agreements...for mutual benefit.

It won't happen.

Antarctica shed nearly 200 billion tonnes of ice via its glaciers...in 2006. That was 75% more than it did in 1996. Snowfall is not keeping up to replace it. Some say that climate change is already out of control. Some like me, wonder whether it ever was controlled...for our selfish benefit.

The ocean currents are a'changing.

That great prophet, Hanrahan, foresaw all this:

""We want an inch of rain, we do,"
O'Neil observed at last;
But Croke "maintained" we wanted two
To put the danger past.
"If we don't get three inches, man,
Or four to break this drought,
We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"Before the year is out."

Check out:
http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/ob...

-- posted by redback