Conservation News Round Up 5-13-11
May 13, 2011
Happy Friday the 13th! In spite of the superstitious nature of the day, it’s shaping up to be a gorgeous day in Anchorage! Sun and warmth, budding trees, people playing the in the bark. It has all the makings of a fantastic weekend! We hope you are able to get out and enjoy it!
As is tradition, here is the weekly round up of conservation news tid-bits that are making headlines in Alaska:
Shell files a new offshore drilling plan
New bipartisan bill could mean more ferry funding
Coastal management bill still in play as session end nears
Panel says that the US must act now to curb global warming
New Jersey: An unlikely leader in solar energy (yes we realize that it’s not ‘Alaskan’ but we thought it was interesting all the same!)
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I hate this man made horror as much as anoyne else. No matter which side of the warming/cooling/climate table one sits on, it is always the same attitude that underlies our short sighted decisions. I for one am sick to death of our supreme collective arrogance, our overweeningly superior attitudes, even our egocentric willingness to think we are so powerful that as humans we claim we are the ones who can kill or save the entire planet, all while saving us from our own unavoidable extinction. At the same time we strut about claiming we can outsmart nature. We second guess millennial changes in climate (natural climate, which we are not omnipotent enough to have altered, like six degrees warmer than now during the Mediaeval Warm Period or massive global crop failures & millions dying during the Little Ice Age). That is the same arrogance as any oil executive possesses. Climate saviourism & repeat cult worship politics which elect misguided, ill informed leaders, THAT is what got us into this mess. However, it might ALSO help for someone to explain the term “clean”. Isn’t that same indistinguishable human arrogance what also got us thinking that there is such a thing as “clean” energy? Please explain how these choices are not just as short sighted & harmful. If it isn’t biofuels destroying food crops, turbines killing birds & blighting the landscape, or extremely toxic materials used in the creation of solar panels, what is it we are so all fired clever at doing? And I’ve got land in Chernobyl to sell to anoyne who thinks nuclear energy is “clean” & a guarantee not to cause an equally horrific disaster.