Dearest Kathleen, I too am worn down! It has been a nightmare for months and still is. Today sunny and quite mild, but more rain expected this afternoon and tonight!
The rivers cannot take it and have of course overflowed. Our fish stocks decimated by this. Surely the politicians although they think they can walk on water,. cannot walk anywhere. More like drive at the tax payers expense in gas guzzling autos/cars. Or indeed in their jets.
Surely reason must come, and then they may see one day if you play God with nature, you will lose, and badly! For nature will sting back, and bite most viciously!
Nature I am sure has its own equilibrium, and if one upsets that balance, it fires back.
Maybe with all the intelligent people in the world, they may see greed is not the answer. For I am apolitical, in that I trust none of them as they are as all politicians are the same.
God bless you all. Maybe one day they will see sense before God gets his/her own back.
Surely it is not too much to ask for a country that we can bring our children up safely. Well educated, without malice and an understanding of nature and the power it holds.
Maybe, or is it too late?
Rachel Carson, to me a brilliant and most controversial American writer, wrote "Silent Spring." It is a very heavy book to read, but:
The book did point to problems that had not been adequately addressed, such as the effects of DDT on some wildlife. And given the state of the science at the time she wrote, one might even make the case that Carson's concerns about the effects of synthetic chemicals on human health were not completely unwarranted. Along with other researchers, she was simply ignorant of the facts. But after four decades in which tens of billions of dollars have been wasted chasing imaginary risks without measurably improving American health, her intellectual descendants don't have the same excuse.
This is on the first page of her book, it makes one think.
"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall,
he will end by destroying the world."
(Albert Schweitzer)
Neil.
I saw some bugs flying yesterday too! right on cue.
