Re: [pf] Chickens coming home to roost. (no, NOT politics!)

David,
    You're just trying to cheer us all up.....
                Jill
----- Original Message -----
From: David MacClement <davd@ihug.co.nz>
To: Positive Futures list <positive-futures@igc.topica.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 2:39 PM
Subject: [pf] Chickens coming home to roost. (no, NOT politics!)


> · In my "in-progress" fortnightly:
>
http://www.emucities.com/emu/misc/davd/GrNZ-RegionalRept-001015.html#50years
>
> · are the statements:
>   "It's a huge firewheel we have going here," said Coughlan of the UN's
> WMO, referring to global warming. "It's not something you are going to
turn
> round quickly. What's happening now has been built into the system over
the
> last 30 to 50 years." Melting glaciers and thinning ice caps are clear
> evidence of rising temperatures, weather experts say.
>   "We've certainly seen a reduction in the extent of Arctic ice - 20% in
> the past 30 years or so," said Geoff Jenkins, head of climate prediction
at
> the UK Met Office.
>
> {· These were originally in the Reuters report:
> http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=8528 }
>
>
> · I have said for quite a while that the richer half of the human race
took
> a wrong turn shortly after 1950, when the "produce, produce!; consume,
> consume!" ethic took hold.
>   Instead of what I grew up with (it /is/ as recent as that!) :- getting
> and using only what you really need, and working only an ordinary amount
> (40 hours a week; Labor Day celebrates when that was brought in).
>   "Conspicuous consumption" was a pejorative phrase, then. I can remember
> it being levelled at the local Manager of Canadian Pacific Airlines, who
> had two cars and a centrally-heated house up in the Waitakere Ranges not
> far from where I grew up.
>
> · Now the saying: "if you sow the wind, you'll reap the whirlwind" is
> coming true.
>
> David.
> (David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz
> http://www.geocities.com/davdd.geo/index.html#top
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