Pale gray skies with more storms on the way. Last night I talked with my brother who grows cherries and wine grapes in the Yakima Valley of Washington and he lost his cherry crop to the recent cold snap and is now worrying about his grapes. Yesterday also heard a report that it’s too cold for bees to be out pollinating…so we need warmer weather around here.
And speaking of unpredictable weather, (a consequence of global warming) happy Earth Day to all.
At http://www.alternet.org/environment/83032/ an article by Terrence McNally is titled How Many Earth Days do we have Left? In it he interviews Lester Brown, author of Plan B. 3.0 Mobilizing to Save Civilization. He says: “ It's time for Plan B -- an all-out response at wartime speed proportionate to the magnitude of threats facing civilization.
The four overriding goals of PLAN B 3.0 are to stabilize climate and population, eradicate poverty, and restore the earth's damaged ecosystems. Failure to reach any one of these goals will likely mean failure to reach the others as well…”
Also at alternet is another article, Eight Reasons Our Changing World Will Turn You Into an Environmentalist, Like It or Not. Here is reason number one: . “Water
The world is quickly running out of freshwater. Thanks to global warming, pollution, population growth, and privatization, we are teetering on the edge of a global crisis, AlterNet editor Tara Lohan writes in "Our Drinkable Water Supply Is Vanishing." While many point to techno-fixes like desalination as a solution, Scott Thill debunks that myth in "Will the World's Oceans Be Our Next Drinking Tap?" Thill writes that although desalination plants are popping up all over the world, they may very well make the environmental crisis worse. It's not all bad news, though. A growing movement is helping take on part of the problem -- corporate control. In "The Bottled Water Backlash," Michael Blanding explains how the bottled water industry is on the defensive as restaurant owners and cities are canceling their bottled water contracts and advocating for tap.”
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