field notes from Cosmic Josh and the Community
Super Tornado Tuesday
[an edited version was printed in PlanetJH weekly 2.13.8: letter to editors. This was at the began of the primary season]
Super Tornado Tuesday
Last “Super Tuesday”, while several states voted on their prospective candidates, Mother Nature made her own political statement in 5 “Red” states. An unusually ferocious winter tornado system ripped across Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee soon after poling booths closed.
The Republican party, which is merely a corporate controlled front for the oil industry, continues to bury their head in the sand when it comes to the realities of global warming. Will the savage sucking power of deadly tornadoes finally yank them out of their delusion? Their own voting populations are suffering, even dying, as a result of their ongoing ignorance. Karma can be a real bitch.
You don't need to be a scientist to grasp that increasing C02 emissions can throw our climate out of balance leading to harsher storm systems. Much like a pot of water that begins to feverishly boil as the temperature rises.
Actual scientists, however, from 113 countries have recently unanimously concluded that the threat of global warming is real. This is the same message that Native people have been warning for generations, that careless human impact on earth will lead to our demise. One can only hope that the advice of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will finally get their attention. The technology exists to co-create a sustainable future, but these developments are being suppressed from the greed induced blindness of our current feudalistic administration.
We can steer this nation to safer shores, but not with another Republican in the White House. “Conservative” values are clearly crazy. Please use common sense in the upcoming elections and vote for a Democrat. Our collective future depends on it.
Joshua Doolittle
Schenectady, NY
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