Thomas O. Nass' Paraphrase and Enhancement of W.C. Lowdermilk , U.S. Dept of Agriculture 1948, from "Conquest of the Land Through 7,000 Years"
This Holy Earth:
Thou shall inherit this Holy Earth as a Faithful Steward, respecting, protecting and conserving its Environment, its Resources and its Productivity for future generations. Thou shall safeguard its Fields from erosion; its Soils and sub-Surface from Chemical Saturation; its ocean waters, its ground waters and its air from chemical pollution; its Oceans from over fishing; its Forests from desolation; its Mineral Resources from depletion; its Hills from overgrazing by thy herds and its Creatures from extinction. ALL OF THIS SO THAT THY DESCENDANTS MAY ENJOY ITS ABUNDANCE AS ONCE DID THEE. As all Nations do share in the Ownership of this Holy Earth. Ergo, if any Nation or its leaders should fail in the responsibilities of their Stewardship, then all of thy crop land shall become dry and sterile ground with wasting gullies -all combining to portend a Greater potential for a Famine; thy waters unfit to drink; thy air too thick to breath; the meat of thy herds and thy flocks, as the spawn of thy waters and thy oceans, unfit to eat; and storms and rising ocean tides shall devastate thy landscape. If any of the above should come to pass, then thy descendants shall gradually diminish in their number and eventually depart in their entirety from off the face of this Holy Earth. Why? Because man cannot continue to "Gut" the sub-surface of its Oil, Coal and other mineral resources without expecting the voids that remain to fill back in at some point in time. Nor can he continue to treat this Earth like it's his own PRIVATE, PROFIT- GENERATING PLAYGROUND, driven by Sociopathic GREED, without expecting the Earth and its Environment to retaliate! Why? Because insatiable, sociopathic, corporate, GREED and ignorance of their ignorance of all things except their "Bottom Line" shall have decreed it so. Corporate "PROFITS" and a "Clean Environment" are not, and never will be, compatible. Corporate Credo -to which their sycophants subscribe: "Rather no Planet at all than a Planet where our insatiable, sociopathic GREED cannot be satisfied. Restrictions, Safety Regulations and the Environment be Damned!" Tom Nass
5th Marine Division - WWII
What about building some kind of Dam-Hydroelectric plant/lock system around St. Clair to control the exit speed of the water and generate some electricity too?
NPR a few days ago had a new story on Polar bears saying Polar bears have increased so much in population they will soon be removed from the endangered species list.
I lived from Grade 2 to end of University in North America, and left for Europe in 93. Around that time Europe was seeing the first signs of global warming and the disasters that can result from it. They took action, and with time things were solved.
The biggest change they made was change how water flowed. Before water was directed much like North America. They learned that it was a BIG mistake and as a result created buffer zones. Large levies were created about 500 to one KM on either side of a major waterway (where possible). Within the buffer zones the water was allowed to do what it did best namely create nature. The results are startling, in that nature returns and lost species reappear. AND of course the floods and dangers dramatically reduce. It has been a success through and through.
The Great lakes have a bigger problem namely they will probably have to undo about 20 years of real estate development to get back to normal. Yes nature plays a role, but so do humans. But hey not much will happen until there is nothing left and then it will be too late.
Nothing for all of those flat-earth, science-denying, faith-based Michigan Republicans to see here... it isn't absolute proof of global climate change... not at all.
It is just a ten-yer, ever increasing loss of fresh water exactly co-incident with the most significant and sustained rise in global temperature, ever.
7lucky_seven-: Rain is not simply caused by greater evaporation and heat--there are other factors that come into play. You are aware of the fact that many areas that are now deserts used to be heavily forested (including the Sahara)? Your answer is appallingly scientifically illiterate in its sophomoric over-simplicity.
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This Holy Earth:
Thou shall inherit this Holy Earth as a Faithful Steward, respecting, protecting and conserving its Environment, its Resources and its Productivity for future generations. Thou shall safeguard its Fields from erosion; its Soils and sub-Surface from Chemical Saturation; its ocean waters, its ground waters and its air from chemical pollution; its Oceans from over fishing; its Forests from desolation; its Mineral Resources from depletion; its Hills from overgrazing by thy herds and its Creatures from extinction. ALL OF THIS SO THAT THY DESCENDANTS MAY ENJOY ITS ABUNDANCE AS ONCE DID THEE.
As all Nations do share in the Ownership of this Holy Earth. Ergo, if any Nation or its leaders should fail in the responsibilities of their Stewardship, then all of thy crop land shall become dry and sterile ground with wasting gullies -all combining to portend a Greater potential for a Famine; thy waters unfit to drink; thy air too thick to breath; the meat of thy herds and thy flocks, as the spawn of thy waters and thy oceans, unfit to eat; and storms and rising ocean tides shall devastate thy landscape. If any of the above should come to pass, then thy descendants shall gradually diminish in their number and eventually depart in their entirety from off the face of this Holy Earth.
Why? Because man cannot continue to "Gut" the sub-surface of its Oil, Coal and other mineral resources without expecting the voids that remain to fill back in at some point in time. Nor can he continue to treat this Earth like it's his own PRIVATE, PROFIT- GENERATING PLAYGROUND, driven by Sociopathic GREED, without expecting the Earth and its Environment to retaliate!
Why? Because insatiable, sociopathic, corporate, GREED and ignorance of their ignorance of all things except their "Bottom Line" shall have decreed it so.
Corporate "PROFITS" and a "Clean Environment" are not, and never will be, compatible. Corporate Credo -to which their sycophants subscribe: "Rather no Planet at all than a Planet where our insatiable, sociopathic GREED cannot be satisfied. Restrictions, Safety Regulations and the Environment be Damned!"
Tom Nass
5th Marine Division - WWII
Your projection is obvious for all to see. The only person that has been blaming everybody else is President Obama himself and his followers.
Now you go ash (sic) a polar bear!
The biggest change they made was change how water flowed. Before water was directed much like North America. They learned that it was a BIG mistake and as a result created buffer zones. Large levies were created about 500 to one KM on either side of a major waterway (where possible). Within the buffer zones the water was allowed to do what it did best namely create nature. The results are startling, in that nature returns and lost species reappear. AND of course the floods and dangers dramatically reduce. It has been a success through and through.
The Great lakes have a bigger problem namely they will probably have to undo about 20 years of real estate development to get back to normal. Yes nature plays a role, but so do humans. But hey not much will happen until there is nothing left and then it will be too late.
It is just a ten-yer, ever increasing loss of fresh water exactly co-incident with the most significant and sustained rise in global temperature, ever.