In times of old, The Furies protected Mother Right. If a mother (or any woman) was harmed, The Furies swooped down and took their vengeance. They were one of the last vestiges of a world that existed before the patriarchy. When we feel righteous anger, it is The Furies who are calling out to us to make what is wrong right again.

Saturday, December 30, 2006

On Thin Ice 

I'm with Joanna. I want to continue to work on becoming more and more less and less the problem. (Got that? I couldn't resist.) When I heard about the bears who are no longer hibernating, and the polar bears falling through the ice, and now this latest ice shelf breaking off, I think of that 2004 movie The Day After Tomorrow which was about global warming. So many people said how ridiculous it was, but it seems that too many things that happened in that movie are happening now. Makes me shudder.

I am still exploring how to become carbon neutral while doing all the things I know how to do. I am a bit uncomfortable with companies trading to pollute, as seems to be the case, but I don't understand everything about it. And I absolutely agree that it's businesses who have to do something because how they do business is the problem. (Here's an interesting piece on making carbon trading fair trade.) I generally trust the NDRC and they're for it. You can go here and find out how you're doing. (Although some of the things they asked to determine if you were doing all you could were strange: do you use a microwave instead of a stove? No! That ain't healthy.) Here's ten things you can do as a New Year's resolutions to protect the planet. All of these things are good, but they won't fix the problem. Busidoms have to change how they do business. We need to pressure our elected leaders and those busidoms we deal with to make changes. It's where we spend our money, babies!

Let's go out there and undo it.
Posted by: Kim Antieau / 12/30/2006 08:46:00 PM
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2 Comments:

Someone e-mailed me and asked what was wrong with microwaving. There are probably many things wrong with it (or not wrong with it), but primarily it destroys vitamin B-12 in the food you microwave. I wants my vitamins, especially the Bees. But I'm sitting here typing on a laptop which is in my lap. That probably ain't healthy either.

By Kim Antieau, at 4:45 PM  

I always find it strange when people get in an uproar about "Day after Tomorrow" not being plausible... how in the world do they really know? Seriously. Loved that movie; scares me to death.

By GT, at 12:19 PM  

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