Tuesday, May 28, 2013

OP-ED....Why is radical the new normal?

   As our lives seem to become more stressed and our broken-down society fights to try and save a man-destoyed planet, what should we do?

   Go to the doctor and get drugs, go shopping to try and forget about it, or should we go radical, or apocalyptic?

      If we accept the anxiety, both about human failures and our earth's inability to handle so many humans, we need to realize that if we don't get radical, nothing will change.

   I know, I know! You are sick of hearing the right wing radicals screaming that we need to have even more human population, without making any sense, and the apocolyptics telling us the earth will blow up or something very soon.

   Life as we know it may be almost over and we have to admit it.  Our own county officials are drawing up a General Plan that only allows CLUSTER housing to be built, which will change our landscape and way of life forever.

   The country is going to be doing more fracking for gas and oil, whether we like it or not, because our need for energy is going through the roof, and wind and solar just don't satisfy that need.

   What we all need to do is become more active.  Sitting on the sofa watching television is not going to make a difference, either in the political spectrum, the violence and fear, or the destruction of our earth.

   Everyone is saying that the so-called environmental groups in Calaveras County have bought the politicians, that violence and guns are the way of the future as our planet becomes unable to sustain us, and that there is nothing we can do to change any of it.

  It is certainly true that if we continue to sit on the sidelines and allow the "screamers" to control this world that nothing will change.

   So become apocalyptic!  Face the fact and start doing something about changing the world around you, little by little!  It can be done! We can all do it if we try!

   Yes, radical is the new normal. Get involved, and help so that radical will not have to be the norm forever.

         T. S. in Ebbetts Pass
  

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