Is Mother Nature Nice Or Not?Objectively Harsh
Al Gore was right. We are in for
walloping shifts in Planet Earth’s climate catastrophic shift.
But Mr. Gore was wrong about the reason. Very wrong.
Climate change is not a fault of man. It is mother nature’s way. And sucking greenhouse gases is a very limited solution. We have to be prepared for change for fire or ice, for fry or freeze.
In two million years during which we climbed from stone-tools-wielding Homo Erectus with sloping brows to high foreheaded Homo Urbanis, man the inventor of the city, we underwent about 60 glaciations, 60 ice ages. And the 120,000 years since we emerged to our current physiological shape Homo Sapiens, we’ve lived through 20 sudden global warmings. In most of these, temperatures have shot up by as much as 18 degrees within 20 years. What I am saying is, all this took place without cars and smokestacks. All this took place without the desecration of nature by modern man. The sheets of ice in whose shadow we made a living for 2 million years peeled back 12,000 years ago leaving a lush new Garden of Eden. In that Eden, we invented agriculture, money, electricity, and the current way of life. It’s very likely that this atypical weather truce shall pass.
Why? What’s the real cause of the Earth’s norm--or climate that rocks back and forth from steamy tropical heat to ice freeze? A climate that deposits fossilized seashells on the mountain tops and makes dry land into seas and swamps.
The Planet Earth is a traveler. Its angle as it sweeps around the sun produces massve weather change we call seasons--the dance from summer to winter, and back again. But there’s more... our planet has a wobble -- its precision, that produces upheavals in our weather, weather alternation we cycle through every 22,000, 41,000 and 100,000 years.
Meanwhile, the sun itself is going through cycle from birth to death. As a result of its maturation, good, old, reliable sol is 43% warmer today than it was when earth first gathered itself into a globa--4.5 billion years ago.
Bottom line? Weather changes and the occasional meteor have tosses this planet through roughly 142 mass extraction since life began 3.85 million years ago. That’s an average of one more extinction every 26.5 million years. Where did these mass die-offs come from? NATURE. There were no human capitalists, industrialists, and cultures of consumerism to blame.
We don’t want to be victims of these extinctions. Nor we want to see whales, elephants, and pandas go the way of trilobites and dinosaurs. We need to prepare for challenges that forced us to evolve into our modern, highly adaptable form. We have to realize that nature tosses us tests and that we grow by outwitting her. We have to prepare for fire and ice. And we have to realize that Mother Nature is not nice. (Data provided by Howard Bloom, author of “The Genius of the Beast) Reprint of “I Have a Dream” “I Have a Dream” article written by this columnist appeared in VT issue of September 2009. Previously dedicated to Noynoy Aquino, my DREAM has now changed. My hero is now Senator Manny Villar, after a virtual reality trip and interview during our last Philippine visit on December 2009. Here’s “I Have a Dream” once again, for your reading pleasure....
His new government has slashed spending and seen its approval ratings rise, making a political star out of SENATOR MANNY VILLAR, former Senate President and Speaker of the House. The political party of Villar sweeps the national election. His government promises to ease the recession and bear down the level of corruption that prompted the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and World Bank (WB) to release billions of dollars in aid funding for the Philippines.
I HAVE A DREAM that Senator Villar has frozen government wages and pensions that mothballed costly state investment projects and slashed government spending by 20%. The result is an 80% reduction of the country’s budget deficit. Amid these measures, the government has earned accolades from western economists and drawn the highest approval rating at home since the People Power Revolution of 1986.
I HAVE A DREAM that financial and moral crises have given the new government a unique mandate---every single unpopular decision could be explained and, more likely, the Pilipino “masa” could support the policy--a policy of transparency. For many Filipino voters, Manny Villar has become closely associated with those decisions and their execution. The Philippine economy, thus far, has avoided the double digit contraction seen in the U.S.
I HAVE A DREAM. The soaring unemployment will be cut in half. At the same time, the country’s appeal as low-cost labor base will be attracting numerous countries that will lead export recovery.
I HAVE A DREAM that the Philippine economy will bottom out by the end of 2010. Villar will visit Washington, China and Great Britain to forge economic alliances and secure some available economic assistance.
I HAVE A DREAM that just before the 2010 election, the Philippines was a problem child. It was one of the region’s worst offenders, but it seems to have turned around and given everyone a lesson.
I HAVE A DREAM that Villar’s priority is keeping the budget from falling to the level of deficit that could jeopardize the peg between Philippines’ peso currency and the American dollar currency. Maintaining the peg is essential for the country to enter the newly-formed Asian Union Exchange Rate mechanism. That’s another dream.
I HAVE A DREAM...The Philippines, the awakened DRAGON of Asia, is heading to its golden era of prosperity under the young and innovative president, MANNY VILLAR.
Manny, please make my dream a reality. The Man from “La Mancha” is absolutely right...EVERY DREAM IS POSSIBLE! Make it possible for our beloved country, the Philippines.
Climate change is not a fault of man. It is mother nature’s way. And sucking greenhouse gases is a very limited solution. We have to be prepared for change for fire or ice, for fry or freeze.
In two million years during which we climbed from stone-tools-wielding Homo Erectus with sloping brows to high foreheaded Homo Urbanis, man the inventor of the city, we underwent about 60 glaciations, 60 ice ages. And the 120,000 years since we emerged to our current physiological shape Homo Sapiens, we’ve lived through 20 sudden global warmings. In most of these, temperatures have shot up by as much as 18 degrees within 20 years. What I am saying is, all this took place without cars and smokestacks. All this took place without the desecration of nature by modern man. The sheets of ice in whose shadow we made a living for 2 million years peeled back 12,000 years ago leaving a lush new Garden of Eden. In that Eden, we invented agriculture, money, electricity, and the current way of life. It’s very likely that this atypical weather truce shall pass.
Why? What’s the real cause of the Earth’s norm--or climate that rocks back and forth from steamy tropical heat to ice freeze? A climate that deposits fossilized seashells on the mountain tops and makes dry land into seas and swamps.
The Planet Earth is a traveler. Its angle as it sweeps around the sun produces massve weather change we call seasons--the dance from summer to winter, and back again. But there’s more... our planet has a wobble -- its precision, that produces upheavals in our weather, weather alternation we cycle through every 22,000, 41,000 and 100,000 years.
Meanwhile, the sun itself is going through cycle from birth to death. As a result of its maturation, good, old, reliable sol is 43% warmer today than it was when earth first gathered itself into a globa--4.5 billion years ago.
Bottom line? Weather changes and the occasional meteor have tosses this planet through roughly 142 mass extraction since life began 3.85 million years ago. That’s an average of one more extinction every 26.5 million years. Where did these mass die-offs come from? NATURE. There were no human capitalists, industrialists, and cultures of consumerism to blame.
We don’t want to be victims of these extinctions. Nor we want to see whales, elephants, and pandas go the way of trilobites and dinosaurs. We need to prepare for challenges that forced us to evolve into our modern, highly adaptable form. We have to realize that nature tosses us tests and that we grow by outwitting her. We have to prepare for fire and ice. And we have to realize that Mother Nature is not nice. (Data provided by Howard Bloom, author of “The Genius of the Beast) Reprint of “I Have a Dream” “I Have a Dream” article written by this columnist appeared in VT issue of September 2009. Previously dedicated to Noynoy Aquino, my DREAM has now changed. My hero is now Senator Manny Villar, after a virtual reality trip and interview during our last Philippine visit on December 2009. Here’s “I Have a Dream” once again, for your reading pleasure....
Thumbs
up for the sure-winner Edwin Reyes (2nd from right), candidate for Cook
County Commissioner (8th Dist) together with Louis Arroyo, State Rep
(10th Dist) VT/CPRTV’s Joe Mauricio, candidate Reyes, and Rudy Urian,
former Commissioner of Chicago’s Fleet Department after an interview
session at the CPRTV studio.
His new government has slashed spending and seen its approval ratings rise, making a political star out of SENATOR MANNY VILLAR, former Senate President and Speaker of the House. The political party of Villar sweeps the national election. His government promises to ease the recession and bear down the level of corruption that prompted the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and World Bank (WB) to release billions of dollars in aid funding for the Philippines.
I HAVE A DREAM that Senator Villar has frozen government wages and pensions that mothballed costly state investment projects and slashed government spending by 20%. The result is an 80% reduction of the country’s budget deficit. Amid these measures, the government has earned accolades from western economists and drawn the highest approval rating at home since the People Power Revolution of 1986.
I HAVE A DREAM that financial and moral crises have given the new government a unique mandate---every single unpopular decision could be explained and, more likely, the Pilipino “masa” could support the policy--a policy of transparency. For many Filipino voters, Manny Villar has become closely associated with those decisions and their execution. The Philippine economy, thus far, has avoided the double digit contraction seen in the U.S.
I HAVE A DREAM. The soaring unemployment will be cut in half. At the same time, the country’s appeal as low-cost labor base will be attracting numerous countries that will lead export recovery.
I HAVE A DREAM that the Philippine economy will bottom out by the end of 2010. Villar will visit Washington, China and Great Britain to forge economic alliances and secure some available economic assistance.
I HAVE A DREAM that just before the 2010 election, the Philippines was a problem child. It was one of the region’s worst offenders, but it seems to have turned around and given everyone a lesson.
I HAVE A DREAM that Villar’s priority is keeping the budget from falling to the level of deficit that could jeopardize the peg between Philippines’ peso currency and the American dollar currency. Maintaining the peg is essential for the country to enter the newly-formed Asian Union Exchange Rate mechanism. That’s another dream.
I HAVE A DREAM...The Philippines, the awakened DRAGON of Asia, is heading to its golden era of prosperity under the young and innovative president, MANNY VILLAR.
Manny, please make my dream a reality. The Man from “La Mancha” is absolutely right...EVERY DREAM IS POSSIBLE! Make it possible for our beloved country, the Philippines.
Private
celebration at Pete Miller’s in Northbrook for Don Kramer’s birthday.
Surrounded by friends greeting him for his bday, Don Kramer was all
smiles for the camera at the dinner held at Pete Miller’s Northbrook.
Toasting the
birthday celebrant, L-R Girlie Pascual, Veronica & Flor Kramer.
