April 8, 2006

  • they are tearing up our street.... two days ago they had a thing like a reverse zamboni come down the street, chomping up all the asphalt, and it was pretty amazing.  it breaks the asphalt up in front of itself, then vacuums all the debris up into a large chute which throws the debris out, over the top of the reverse zamboni, into the bed of a dumptruck that is driving in front of the reverse zamboni.... even though both vehicles are driving very slowly , it takes very little time at all.  again, i was amazed.


    why does it take longer to create than destroy?  it took God six days (over millions of years) to create this lovely world where we live, and yet humanity will have destroyed it pretty much within the next 50.  even though we have never been a partciularly cautious race, it has only been since the Industrial revolution, the late 1800's, that we have made such a damaging footprint in nature.  we sowed the seeds of global warming with unrestricted development and growth, and now it seems as if we will finally reap our rewards.


    it was destressing enough that the Republicans would not sign the Kyoto Accord, and now our current Republican administration says things like "it it our God-given right as Americans to consume as much energy as we like"...  just because we CAN does NOT mean we should. 


    what gives us the right to do as WE please?  how are we better than the rest of the world?  it is fast coming to the point where instantaneous communications will have made borders meaningless, especially since many services, formerly taking place in this country, have been outsourced offshore.  if a technician in india is reading your x-rays for a doctor in this country, do borders really matter?  and if borders have less meaning, shouldn't we be trying to be better citizens of the world? 


    americans seem to think of their pockets before morality.  this saddens me.