OK, congresspeople, to let you know the etiquitte of this situation: the President will hold up note cards to let you know which words he will not acknowledge the existence of - so that if you say them, you'll know why you're being ignored.
In calling for change in our time, scientists are speaking about what could somehow be true, speaking out loudly and clearly to wealthy and powerful people who adamantly insist that the "business as usual" status quo be relentlessly promoted and ruthlessly maintained.
Industrial/big business powerbrokers and their bought-and-paid-for politicians want to keep over-consuming, overproducing and overpopulating in our planetary home as they are doing now, come what may for children, life as we know it, and the integrity of Earth and its environs. Many of our voices are needed to support these great "voices of science," these exemplars who are courageously speaking truth to those leaders who possess the power to authorize change. The provision of a good enough future for our children is an achievable goal, but only if we elders choose requisite behavior change now.
If changes in behavior are not initiated in a timely fashion, then a sustainable world for our children may not be achievable. By doing precisely what we are doing now, the limited resources of Earth could be permanently dissipated, its biodiversity massively extirpated, its environment irreversibly degraded and life as we know it recklessly endangered. The current scale and anticipated growth of per-capita over-consumption, global production capabilities, and human population numbers worldwide could be simply, clearly and patently unsustainable, even to the year 2050. Given Earth's limitations as a relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible planet, the projected increases in unchecked consumption, unbridled production and unregulated propagation activities of the human species could soon lead the human family to come face to face with some sort of colossal ecological wreckage.
Now is the time to speak loudly, clearly and often about what is true for you. Forget about political correctness and convenience. Resist economic expediency and greediness. Embrace necessary change rather than waste another day perniciously defending an unsustainable, same old "business as usual" status quo.
Somebody tell me how to spell that?
Sorry, I meant pronounce of course. Damn...his linguistic abilities are rubbing off on me.
Can I use one of my life lines?
OK, congresspeople, to let you know the etiquitte of this situation: the President will hold up note cards to let you know which words he will not acknowledge the existence of - so that if you say them, you'll know why you're being ignored.
No one could have anticipated...
This shade of blue kinda matches my tie! Heh heh heh.
I'm done with Hertz!
Letter to the editor
http://www.chapelhillnews.com/opinion/letters/story/35881.html
Embrace change for planet's sake
In calling for change in our time, scientists are speaking about what could somehow be true, speaking out loudly and clearly to wealthy and powerful people who adamantly insist that the "business as usual" status quo be relentlessly promoted and ruthlessly maintained.
Industrial/big business powerbrokers and their bought-and-paid-for politicians want to keep over-consuming, overproducing and overpopulating in our planetary home as they are doing now, come what may for children, life as we know it, and the integrity of Earth and its environs. Many of our voices are needed to support these great "voices of science," these exemplars who are courageously speaking truth to those leaders who possess the power to authorize change. The provision of a good enough future for our children is an achievable goal, but only if we elders choose requisite behavior change now.
If changes in behavior are not initiated in a timely fashion, then a sustainable world for our children may not be achievable. By doing precisely what we are doing now, the limited resources of Earth could be permanently dissipated, its biodiversity massively extirpated, its environment irreversibly degraded and life as we know it recklessly endangered. The current scale and anticipated growth of per-capita over-consumption, global production capabilities, and human population numbers worldwide could be simply, clearly and patently unsustainable, even to the year 2050. Given Earth's limitations as a relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible planet, the projected increases in unchecked consumption, unbridled production and unregulated propagation activities of the human species could soon lead the human family to come face to face with some sort of colossal ecological wreckage.
Now is the time to speak loudly, clearly and often about what is true for you. Forget about political correctness and convenience. Resist economic expediency and greediness. Embrace necessary change rather than waste another day perniciously defending an unsustainable, same old "business as usual" status quo.
Steven Earl Salmony
Chapel Hill
"Hey guys, what does this word mean again?"
"I don't know what my budget position is. Dick Cheney hasn't told me yet".
The economy is just a bit constimapated. This should...
Ummmh...I only got the cover page. Where's the rest of it?
A haiku.........
Truth was his doormat.
The 'liberated' threw dirty soles
at his head.
"What's this word mean?"