Conservation
2 Comments Published June 29th, 2008 in National and International Issues, Southern Utah Talking Points and Questions.If you’re driving up State Road 9 to Zion Park and you find yourself behind this dumpy little car going about 50 … wave. It might be me.
My family is enjoying the fresh difference of clothes dried on our clothesline rather than in a dryer.
We keep our air conditioning set at 90 degrees. It’s summer! It should feel like summer!
Conservation happens in small steps. You can increase your gas milage by twenty percent by driving slower. I enjoy the trip a lot more that way. The difference in my power bill is in the hundreds of dollars.
Recently Columbia University climate scientist James Hansen warned Congress that the Earth has long passed the “dangerous level” for greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Twenty years ago, Hansen told Congress that global warming was already here. Now he’s telling them that the point of no return is very near. That’s, “ten or twenty years” near. According to Hansen, “This is the last chance. We’re toast if we don’t get on a very different path.”
If you have kids, take a good look at them. Imagine the Earth you’re giving to them.
Dan, Oh yeah, I can travel 50 mph. I enjoy it . But you wouldn’t be making that 5 /6 hr. trip that fast at 50 mph. And air conditioning…I have the very best . Its called trees big ones . But the cloths line . Now that’s a different story. First…most house of us common folk built basements. And the laundry room was in the basement . Closer to the drain I guess but further away from the clothes line. And because the clothes line was outside you had to get the clothes to the line. Are you thinking steps? Are you aware that a basket full of wet clothes weigh more than dry clothes . But theres more. If people burned coal , and they did, then the air was filled with bits of soot .But don’t feel too bad they still had that fresh (?) air smell. But the weather has a way of changing. It gets cold in the winter . freezing cold . Getting those frozen clothes off the line and into the house was a challenge . There are other things I’d rather do without than my dryer. Max
Times change and people should too.
Gas used to cost ten cents a gallon and global warming meant that everybody was close enough to the furnace vent in the winter.
“There are other things I’d rather do without than my dryer.”
Civilization, perhaps?