Wednesday, March 21, 2012

What's so bad about global warming?

This past weekend I was enjoying the balmy weather here in almost-north Ontario and reading about snow storms in Arizona.

That isn't supposed to happen in the middle of March.

I personally don't have a horse in this global warming debate. Seems pretty obvious for a whole lot of reasons that we need to slow down on using up our resources.

The Alberta oil-sands debacle is a case in point. Yes, it's technically feasible to get that gunk out of the ground and distill the petrol out of it. But at what cost? And why do we have to get at it as quick as possible? What's the rush?

Fracking is another case in point. All of the studies paid for by big oil have showed again and again that IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR FRACKING CHEMICALS TO CONTAMINATE GROUNDWATER!

Yet, fracking chemicals mysteriously continue to turn up in groundwater.

Seems to me that anyone with a lick of common sense would say whoa! Hold the phone! Let's get this right before we poison more groundwater! Instead, half of America is falling all over itself lavishing exploration permits on the Big Oil cartel to pump more poison into the ground, where that poison may or may not intermingle with groundwater.

May or may not?

What does common sense tell you?

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