I've been doing much thinking on the fact that it has been a whole year since Katrina hit the south. I've read things that made my blood boil as well as things that made my heart sing.
I wish for those who are still here, coping with the fact that their lives took a huge veer in a different direction that day, can find peace where ever it is. I wish for those whose lives ended that day to be remembered. Not as idiots for not leaving (some could not get out, as they had no means to), but as human beings. I wish that the levees would have been upgraded and fixed since there was previous knowledge by the local government in NO that they wouldn't hold.
But my #1 wish? That we humans would recognize the fact that WE are responsible for this earth and all that is happening to it. WE are causing the warming trends. WE are littering her surface with more and more and more. WE are greedy individuals who only think of WE...well, some of us.
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i so hate the direction this world is going... it makes me wonder if it's really worth it?
frustrates the hell outta me.
you jes' gotta wonder if there's aliens out there somewhere in the cosmos with a voting pool going around some water cooler.
"when are they gonna end themselves!?" that's the VOTE.
we're fast approaching the point of no return, environmentally speaking, if you believe al gore and many other theorists.
what are we gonna do?
why does greed always win?
when is enough enough?
oh, and to answer the alien masses question:
it's gonna be onna tuesday.
Some people may not have been able to leave (like the elderly folks trapped in the nursing home) but MANY, including my best friend's cousin, CHOSE to stay to take care of his shrimp boats instead of leaving with his wife and 2 baby daughters. They found him almost a month later dead under a dock. Now his family has no choice then to be fatherless.
As humans we are responsible for our choices and how they effect others (like our families). Yes, its tragic that they perished... but what is more tragic that they ignored the warnings. Hundreds of scientists have said for years that a storm over cat 3 would devestate the city. It is tragic when we as humans fail to recognize that our lives are filled with choices... and those choices are our own and no one elses.
We've mourned the loss... now its time to make a choice to move foward and learn so this kind of thing does not happen again. And its time we stop blaming others when OUR choices do not turn out the way we would like them too. Its time to stand up and be accountable to ourselves along with the other human being's we share our lives with.
There is only one minor modificaction I would make to your posting. In the last paragaph, I would suggest this sentence.
"WE are greedy individuals who only think of I.
Life is all choices and consequences. We can only act individually. The only hope that I see is to stop this damned divisiveness. We have to move away from the us vs. them mentality. We have to recognize that our greed and need to satisfy self with material things is not the answer to world peace, prosperity and the banishment of the evils of the world. But, even this rant is full of the very thing it rails agains.
Arggh, is there no escape from it?
Enough for this rant.
Thanks for your thoughtful caring.
(could this wv be a sign? dubsulxf)
Mother Nature is going to do whatever the hell she pleases, when she wants. There is absolutely NOTHING that we as humans can do to help that. You can recycled your fingers off, you can walk instead of drive, but she has the final word. And greed doesn't make a natural disaster. That's down right ridiculous.
You're a pretty hateful person huh?
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